No Marzen For Error
Innocente Brewing Company
- From:
- Innocente Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 8.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2015
- Added:
- Oct 24, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.58/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500 mL bottle picked up at the brewery last week, so this would be the 2015 edition. Listed at 4.7% with no bottling date, and served well-chilled.
Pours an attractive orange-amber colour obscured by some chill haze, with one finger of foamy, off white-coloured froth situated atop. It fizzles off over the next 90 seconds or so; the only remnant is a thin collar and some wisps on the surface. Doughy, biscuity malts and caramel come through on the nose, with touches of fruity red apple, apricot and grassy hay.
A pretty good rendition of the style, and approachable too. A little fruitier than anticipated, with orchard fruit esters overlying the doughy, lightly toasted biscuity aspects and caramel sweetness of the malt bill. Suggestions of toasted nuts are noticeable by mid-sip, with a grassy, earthy, weakly citrusy bitterness on the back end that leads into the off-dry aftertaste. Clean, straightforward flavour profile. Quite light-bodied, with restrained carbonation levels that provide this märzen with a gentle crispness and a relatively smooth mouthfeel. It goes down effortlessly, and the low abv makes it more sessionable than this style usually trends.
Final Grade: 3.58, a B grade. Innocente's No Märzen for Eror probably won't blow your mind, but it's still a highly serviceable example of this German amber lager style. The biscuity, toasty malt notes come off clean and enjoyable, though I'd prefer that they increase the quantity used - this one just didn't quite have the richness of malt flavours that I expect from a top tier märzen. Glad to have tried it; not a beer I'd go out of my way for, but I could see myself picking up a bottle or two if I happened to see it again.
Dec 12, 2015Pours an attractive orange-amber colour obscured by some chill haze, with one finger of foamy, off white-coloured froth situated atop. It fizzles off over the next 90 seconds or so; the only remnant is a thin collar and some wisps on the surface. Doughy, biscuity malts and caramel come through on the nose, with touches of fruity red apple, apricot and grassy hay.
A pretty good rendition of the style, and approachable too. A little fruitier than anticipated, with orchard fruit esters overlying the doughy, lightly toasted biscuity aspects and caramel sweetness of the malt bill. Suggestions of toasted nuts are noticeable by mid-sip, with a grassy, earthy, weakly citrusy bitterness on the back end that leads into the off-dry aftertaste. Clean, straightforward flavour profile. Quite light-bodied, with restrained carbonation levels that provide this märzen with a gentle crispness and a relatively smooth mouthfeel. It goes down effortlessly, and the low abv makes it more sessionable than this style usually trends.
Final Grade: 3.58, a B grade. Innocente's No Märzen for Eror probably won't blow your mind, but it's still a highly serviceable example of this German amber lager style. The biscuity, toasty malt notes come off clean and enjoyable, though I'd prefer that they increase the quantity used - this one just didn't quite have the richness of malt flavours that I expect from a top tier märzen. Glad to have tried it; not a beer I'd go out of my way for, but I could see myself picking up a bottle or two if I happened to see it again.
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