Friday Night Lights
Hillsboro Brewing Co.

 

 

12 oz can poured into a tulip pint glass. Appearance is a copper color with a smallish head. Decent retention. Aroma and flavor feature bready/caramel malt with light bitterness and noble hops. Unfortunately there is a small but noticeable metallic and sour twang. Not enough to ruin the beer, but still a definite flaw. Mouthfeel is crisp and well-carbonated. Overall it's enjoyable but not something I'd purchase again with so many other quality Oktoberfests available.

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours deep orange red with a small off white head. Smells of bright fruit and caramelized grain. Tastes of bright fruit and caramelized grain. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a very good beer.

Appearance: Pours a clear, ruby red to amber color with a strong, light tan head that lingers. SRM of 15-16. (4.00)

Aroma: Strong toasty and amber notes of toast, bread crust, mixed with some amber and baked caramel sweetness. (4.25)

Flavor: Moderate to strong flavors of amber and red fruit, baked caramel, mixed with toast and bread crust. Decently complex flavors, leans slightly sweet, yet toasty as expected. (4.00)

Feel: Medium-bodied. Low carbonation. Drinks sort of flat. Malts linger. (3.50)

Compared to Brewing Projekt Wisktoberfest 10/14/22: Pours similar. Similar aromas, milder. Similar flavors of brown bread, brown sugar, toast. Slightly milder with less honey. Winner: Wisktoberfest

Overall: A good Oktoberfest upfront, but then sort of dropped off on the end. Meaning, a great pour. Fantastic aromas, good flavors that were decently complex. But then the body was undercarbonated and lacked the bready yeast mouthfeel. Still, worth drinking, but I think if they tweaked the recipe a bit to improve the body, this one could be dangerously good. (Rating: 3.96)

 

I got a can of this beer off the single shelf from a beer store in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. It poured a clear amber with white ring head that is not leaving much lace. The scent had sweet malt notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with sweet malt base and subtle bitter hop clean finish. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a good beer.

Light orange-ish amber or a orange-ish gold transparent body. Decent white head at leaves plenty of lacing. nice looking beer.
Smell: Bread, sweet malt, floral and maybe orange. Smells good
Taste follows the nose, nice soft smooth malt. the hops come later, Hint of orange or tangerine in the hop notes. slightly sweet and then slightly bitter. balanced.
Mouth fells is good
I like this one, one of the better O-fest beers I have had from Wisconsin this year. But is this really a Ofest beer? Could be a Maibock instead. I will take it as it is. About a 4.1 outta 5 beer

L - Medium amber. Clear. Short white head with good persistence.

S - Bready malts.

T - Again bready malts. Light spicy hops. Dry finish.

F - Medium.

O - Nice, straight-forward oktoberfest. Hits all the right notes.