DELCOFest
2SP Brewing Company

On draft, served in pint plastic cup (music venue)

Clear, dark amber in color, off white head that fades. Fairly rich toasted malt flavor, but not overly sweet. Medium bodied.

Had on tap. Clear amber body, off-white head about a finger high, decently thick blobs of sporadic lacing. Smell accentuates grassy hops amongst waves of bready yeast and toasty malt. Taste is malt and yeast the whole way, feels more pure of a marzen experience though not dynamic. Lighter and higher carb but not thin with the fullness of the malt in particular.

 

 

16 ounce can poured into a dimpled mug.
Canned 8/17/22
My can says 6.7% ABV.

Pouring clear golden amber in color but stacking up copper in the glass with two fingers of persistent beige foam parged into the top of the mug. Nose is nice, and full. I’m getting bread, honey, spiced hops and mineral water. Malty opening to taste, toasted malt with a hint of sweet bread, then picking up mildly bitter spicy hop flavor and sporadic hints of citrus zest on the back. The medium weight body is crisp up front but smooths to finish becoming lightly creamy as the carbonation mellows.

Overall, very drinkable, one of the best Marzens I’ve had this season. If I had a complaint it would be the higher for style ABV because I could drink this one by the liter.

 

 

 

A thanks to the captain of the canquest, woodychandler, for this beer. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a copper color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of bready malts. Taste is bready malts, light notes of apples and caramel. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a pretty good beer.

There I was, knee-deep in Take Your Pils With A New Beer, We're Heading to Media, PA This Sunday (Week 752)!, when the Sterling Pig took great umbrage at my suggestion of a pig roast on the beach. He snuffed & snorted & ordered me out of town! 8=O I quickly summoned an Uber & headed 6 miles S to Aston, to see my old buddy, "Big" Bob Barrar of 2SP. Bob & I go WAY back, to when he was apprenticing under his brother-in-law, Jim CANcro, at Red Bell. "Big" Bob really is big, a giant of a man with a Russian Cossack-like black beard. He is like our Lt. Gov. Fetterman - security? Who needs security? I AM security!

From the CAN: "Prost!"; "'In Wentz We Trust'"; "Go Iggles"; "Everything We CAN't Drink We CAN."

Nice approved pic! To CANebrate, I pulled out a glass stein which is kinda a CANtradiction in terms since "stein" is GER for "stone", but I like to see my beers so a glass stein had to suffice. I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a slow, gentle C-Line Glug since the stein is squat & narrower than many/most of the other glasses that I use & I did not want to cause a spill and/or a mess. I got a brief finger of foamy, fizzy, soapy, tawny head from my efforts, but it quickly wilted in today's heat. Color was a gorgeous Deep-Amber/Light-Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, > 17) with NE-quality clarity. Beautiful! Nose was rich, really malty sweet, almost to the point of maple syrup! It also had a nutty, caramel-like aspect & I beCAN to wonder how well I was going to like it. It smelled like a liquefied CANdy bar. Mouthfeel was medium, but big for a Lager-style beer. The taste was less sweet than the nose had led me to expect. Instead, it was quite nutty with just a hint of caramel & nothing like maple syrup. Phew! The nuttiness & attendant sweetness reminded me of peCAN pie with its gooey base/filling. Not bad. Finish was semi-sweet, about as sweet as I CAN handle without going into hops withdrawal. YMMV.

16oz canned 8/28/18 (2 months ago) poured into a dimpled mug at fridge temp 5% ABV. The beer pours mostly bright copper to orange amber in color with khaki head. The head recedes to a pencil thin ring and leaves no lacing. The aroma is faintly sweet with some caramel malt, apple and yeast notes. The taste is caramel with toasted notes restraining the sweetness. The finish is mild floral and earthy hops and appropriate bitterness. The mouthfeel is thin to medium bodied with a little more than average carbonation and dry finish. The beer is fairly clean cold but starts to taste a touch off as it warms. Overall, good.

 

 

 

 

The clear dark amber/copper color beer pours out into a Duvel glass with a 3/4" ivory head that slowly recedes to a think layer of foam and leaves behind some foam and a web of lacing on the sides of the glass. Sipping creates sheets of foam that quickly become lots of tiny patches of lacing that gradually create larger patches or slide back to the liquid. The foam persist for most of the beer with a thin island on the liquid and some scattered rings and patches of lacing.

The aromas are mostly about the toasty bready malt but in the background there's some earthy and floral hops (mostly floral).

The flavors are much as expected with the toasty bready malt and it's sweetness up front while the earthy floral hops also show off a touch of bitterness in the background. However, the sweetness is a bit over done to the point that it is more prominent than the other malt flavors to the point of hiding them a bit.

The mouthfeel is medium bodied and fairly smooth with the very gentle but persistent carbonation. The finish begins as the sweetness and the toasty bready malt to slide into the background revealing some earthiness in the bitterness. Soon the sweetness mostly has disappeared as the earthy hop bitterness has become just a bit too prominent and so almost unpleasant before it begins to fade into the semi-dry ending.

On the whole this is a drinkable beer but not one I intend to repeat. There’s a certain complexity of flavors that is missing and the sweetness and earthiness of the bitterness seem a bit out of balance and so conceal some of the other flavors.

16 oz can p, dated 8/23/17, poured into a pint glass

A- A clear amber with a small off white head.

S- Toast malts, sweet bread, some caramel malts, hints of light fruits, some earthy/floral hops.

T- Caramel malts, toasted sweet bread, touch of light fruits, floral hops.

M- Smooth, medium body.

O- A tasty beer, I'm not really familiar with the whole Oktoberfest style but it seems like it fits the style well based off of what I have read.

 

Burnt copper body with a whisper of head around the edge of the glass. No lacing. Darker than expected.

Loads of German yeast in the nose featuring fruity esters. Banana, apple, and spice. Fairly sweet. Light alcohol and grain.

The fruit notes return. Toasted grain and moderate bitterness. Lots of caramel. The sweetness is a little too prominent.

Medium bodied and low carbonation. Slightly syrupy. Dry, bitter finish with a tinge or alcohol.

Vaguely out of line for the style. Too sweet and a little alcoholic, but I enjoyed it and would happily drink it again.