Doch
Aslin Beer Company

 

 

Pours a clear amber color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has malt hints
Taste has a malt flavor
A medium bodied well carbonated beer
A decent Marzen

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a mostly clear amber and copper color. Carbonation is visible. A modest foam head quickly dissipates.

Aromas of caramel, honey and sweet cereal grain. Biscuity, bready and slightly toasted, the nose is all about the malt as there is no discernible hops or estery aroma.

The taste aligns with the aroma, as malty notes of biscuit, brown bread, toast and honey provide a solid but clean and dry sweetness. Balanced with an easy going bitterness and crisp yeast notes, evoking flavors of citrus, apples, earthy spices and grass.

Medium bodied with a mouthfeel between crisp and smooth. The finish is dry and crisp with a light bitterness. The carbonation is moderate.

A nice example of Oktoberfest/Marzen with a chewy and rich malt body, yet well balanced with crispness and hops. I would have again.

 

Single can shipped from Half Time

 

 

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a one finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of pale and bready malt, lemon, light citrus hops. Flavor is pale and grainy biscuit malt, grassy and citrus hops, lemon and a hint of caramel. Medium bodied with light creaminess. The malt does not have the strong caramel notes I associate with a marzen, although there is a slight caramel note in the finish. The body seems like a pilsner style malting and it leans in that direction with fairly robust hops, which have both continental grassiness and citrus characters; not as sweet as a German marzen. Not quite traditional, but a nicely hopped and drinkable lager that's a domestic hybrid of marzen and pilsner character. Enjoyable.

No canning date (released on 8/26/20, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 11/24/20

Pours a clear, pale sunburst orange body capped with a finger creamy, white foam; decent head retention leaves a thin veil of cap along with a slightly more substantial, frothy collar and dense rings of lacing clinging firmly to the walls of the glass.

Aroma is heavy on lager yeast and an underscoring minerality with distant clove impressions upfront, steadily embracing toasty white bread, hints of honey, and green apple core over the middle as touches of bready spice intermingle with vague caramel impressions to close.

Taste begins with immediate impressions of brown bread and spiced minerality, with soft yeast developing over the mid-palate and nutty clove into back end; coarse grains and pale malts, light honeysuckle, and bread dough finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with a fluffy, moderate carbonation dispersing with an even spritz into the mid-palate, where robust and prickly malts progress into a peaking, crisp back end; the overall texture is perpetually dry and consistent, and presents a clean finish.

A largely clean Märzen with the occasional suggestion of amplified flavor along an otherwise steady profile highlighting bready, yeasty, and strangely, clove-like notes throughout; an enjoyable if not spectacular display where the quirks present distract more than they contribute to overall quality.

 

Pours a very light copper color with a finger of head. The nose has bready notes but it also has something astringent. The flavor has a little sweetness and a little nuttiness but it all seems too muted. The body is spot on for the style.

A: The beer is crystal clear yellow in color and has notes of orange hues along with a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that left delicate lacing on the surface and a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of toasted malts are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and starts of with flavors of toasted malts and bits of associated sweetness and finishes with hints of spicy hops. There is a light amount of bitterness.
M: It feels medium-bodied, clean, and a bit crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I enjoyed how the taste of this beer was very malty but there were just enough hops to mask most of the sweetness and provide contrasting flavors of spiciness.

Serving type: can

A: Honey golden pour. Shades of ochre and patches of apricot. Large head formation...white with nice retention. Not quite clear, but it has a glow to it.

S: Honey-caramel drizzled biscuit. Toffeeesque, grassy, sweet green tea.

M: Medium feel with a deceptively smooth body. Finishes slightly sweet. Kills its sessionability as it ends up a bit too filling.

T: Bready pale Vienna malt with sugared like candy-corn sweetness, caramel malt. Not as off-putting as that phrase, but still sweeter than any German counterpart. Finishes like a southern style biscuit. So, still yet another American make I wouldn't drink over a German; however, it doesn't disqualify this as a tasty beer.