Festbier (2025)
Buoy Beer Company
- From:
- Buoy Beer Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Festbier / Wiesnbier
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 8.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 12, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 07, 2025
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Brewed in collaboration with Threshold Brewing, this modern Festbier has aroma of biscuit and honey while Lubelski hops polish it off (pun intended) with floral spice notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by dr_lager from Washington
4.26/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Tasty and eminently slurpable beer. Great balance of malt and bitterness, and generally an excellent beer to drink at the end of a work day.
Dec 12, 2025
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.43/5 rDev -14.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -14.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Canned on 7/21/25; consumed on 10/24/25
Pours a slightly foggy, deep golden body capped with a finger and a half of airy, white foam; good head retention yields a half-finger of cap, modest, frothy collar, and generous spread of soapy, webby lacing encircling the walls of the glass.
Aroma offers notes of honey and a backing of water cracker, making way for a bready build into slightly peppery floral undertones throughout the bouquet.
Taste opens with honey accented with a touch of bread crust as minerality meanders gently over the profile.
Mouthfeel shows a medium-light body and an ample, fluff of spritzy carbonation; dry and crisp throughout into an easygoing, clean finish.
Gentle sweetness proceeds atop a light, flaky malt backbone; a passive yet easily quaffable festbier.
Oct 25, 2025Pours a slightly foggy, deep golden body capped with a finger and a half of airy, white foam; good head retention yields a half-finger of cap, modest, frothy collar, and generous spread of soapy, webby lacing encircling the walls of the glass.
Aroma offers notes of honey and a backing of water cracker, making way for a bready build into slightly peppery floral undertones throughout the bouquet.
Taste opens with honey accented with a touch of bread crust as minerality meanders gently over the profile.
Mouthfeel shows a medium-light body and an ample, fluff of spritzy carbonation; dry and crisp throughout into an easygoing, clean finish.
Gentle sweetness proceeds atop a light, flaky malt backbone; a passive yet easily quaffable festbier.
Reviewed by NickSMpls from Washington
4.21/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.21/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Buoy has stepped up their lager game considerably. The Festbier is no exception. Very clean and clear pour, pleasant aroma, balanced bitterness and malt. Festbier means big, full, mugs of beer meant for enjoyment, not savoring. Blonde Fraulein carrying half - liter steins are optional
Sep 29, 2025
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
4.17/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Clear golden amber brew with plenty of foam in the Timmermans goblet. Bright and sudsy on the tongue. Some malty warmth but clearly not the sweeter Märzen style. The taste grows spicy with some grass and a lemony note. Toasty malt tempered by a slight bitterness like those salad greens (or radicchio). It's my favorite Oktoberfest this season, so far. This is another feather in the cap for Buoy, which I think is among the region's best brewers. From the 16 oz can purchased up north. Dated 7/21/25.
Sep 07, 2025
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