Oktoberfest
Great Raft Brewing
- From:
- Great Raft Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
Ranked #429 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #33,631 - Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 17.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 20, 2024
- Added:
- Sep 07, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
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Reviewed by ATL6245 from Georgia
3.11/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
3.11/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
Appearance: Cloudy light amber, fluffy white head with moderate retention.
Aroma: Bready, a little caramel, floral hops
Flavor: Bread, caramel, alcohol, bitter
Mouthfeel: Light bodied
Overall: Didn't enjoy this one as much as many others. Visually not appealing. It's quite cloudy and has short head retention. It's very out of balance, very prominent bitterness kicks in right away, then caramel flavor with notable alcohol presence. Brewery states full bodied but it drinks light to medium. Not one I would drink again.
Nov 25, 2023Aroma: Bready, a little caramel, floral hops
Flavor: Bread, caramel, alcohol, bitter
Mouthfeel: Light bodied
Overall: Didn't enjoy this one as much as many others. Visually not appealing. It's quite cloudy and has short head retention. It's very out of balance, very prominent bitterness kicks in right away, then caramel flavor with notable alcohol presence. Brewery states full bodied but it drinks light to medium. Not one I would drink again.
Reviewed by champ103 from Texas
3.42/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours a dark orange color. A small white head forms and recedes to a ring. Light lace is left behind
S: A very neutral aroma. Cereal grains, sweetness, light grassy hops...I think but very light.
T: Like the nose, cereal grains, just a touch of something vaguely resembling grassy hops. Mild sweetness, almost no finish. Just very neutral overall, which is more blah than anything.
M/O: A medium body with moderate carbonation. Fairly clean, but not much of a finish. Just kind of there. Not hard to drink, and not bad, just kind of generic and standard.
Very much by the books. Just kind of grainy and lightly sweet. Inoffensive, in that American, kind of sweet, kind of orange like colored lager way. No real connection to an Oktoberfest, let alone a Marzen, or whatever German style you want to put here. Though drinkable in a generic kind of way. Faint praise, and just OK.
Sep 26, 2023S: A very neutral aroma. Cereal grains, sweetness, light grassy hops...I think but very light.
T: Like the nose, cereal grains, just a touch of something vaguely resembling grassy hops. Mild sweetness, almost no finish. Just very neutral overall, which is more blah than anything.
M/O: A medium body with moderate carbonation. Fairly clean, but not much of a finish. Just kind of there. Not hard to drink, and not bad, just kind of generic and standard.
Very much by the books. Just kind of grainy and lightly sweet. Inoffensive, in that American, kind of sweet, kind of orange like colored lager way. No real connection to an Oktoberfest, let alone a Marzen, or whatever German style you want to put here. Though drinkable in a generic kind of way. Faint praise, and just OK.
Rated by animal69 from Louisiana
4/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
*Edit- 2021 batch was stellar, one of the best American Oktoberfest beers this year.
Jan 03, 2021
Reviewed by THE_VANDAL from Arkansas
4.5/5 rDev +28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Great Raft is one of my favorite breweries to this point, so of course I had to grab one of these tall boys to try out. Super yeasty and bready in the mouth with a heavier hops bitterness than you normally taste in this class. Finishes with a touch of sweetness; grainy with a light burnt toast flavor on the exhale. I could happily drink a few of these. Another outstanding offering from these guys.
Oct 21, 2020
Reviewed by russpowell from Arkansas
3.59/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours an effervescent honey color with 2+ fingers of eggshell colored head, Not much head retention & less lacing
S: Very bready & a little bit of grassyness
T: Follows the nose, toasty & dry, some pear & leafy hops up front. More toastyness & dryness as this warms, just a little caramel. Finishes dry, toasty with some brown bread & a little brown sugar
MF: Medium body, restrained carbonation, good balance
Decent take on the style, a little less dryness/toastyness would've helped drinkability
Sep 13, 2020S: Very bready & a little bit of grassyness
T: Follows the nose, toasty & dry, some pear & leafy hops up front. More toastyness & dryness as this warms, just a little caramel. Finishes dry, toasty with some brown bread & a little brown sugar
MF: Medium body, restrained carbonation, good balance
Decent take on the style, a little less dryness/toastyness would've helped drinkability
Rated by beaulabauve from Louisiana
3.68/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
This has to be a different recipe from the original, but I’m not a big fan of the flavor.
Oct 02, 2019
Reviewed by RonaldTheriot from Louisiana
4.14/5 rDev +17.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev +17.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Great Raft Oktoberfest has a thick, egg-shell head, an unusually hazy orange-amber appearance, and minimal glass lacing. The aroma is of faint bread crust, and the flavor is similar, with some lemon and syrup. Mouthfeel is high medium, and Great Raft Oktoberfest finishes mostly dry.
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Sep 17, 2019RJT
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.52/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.52/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
CAN: 12 fl oz pull-tab with an orange label. (They also package this in 16 fl oz blue cans). Canned 08.23.19.
6% ABV. Marzen.
Oddly sweet and dry, with a thick breadiness up front and a raw doughy yeast taste in the late second act.
Not a beer I could quaff by the litre at a festival given its sweetness and thickness.
One of the lesser Marzenbiere I've tried this season, but not entirely undrinkable.
Low C- (2.52) / BELOW AVERAGE
Sep 07, 20196% ABV. Marzen.
Oddly sweet and dry, with a thick breadiness up front and a raw doughy yeast taste in the late second act.
Not a beer I could quaff by the litre at a festival given its sweetness and thickness.
One of the lesser Marzenbiere I've tried this season, but not entirely undrinkable.
Low C- (2.52) / BELOW AVERAGE
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