Oktoberfest
Westbound & Down Brewing Company
- From:
- Westbound & Down Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.08 | pDev: 4.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 24, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 18, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Märzen Style Lager with rich malt aroma, flavors of fresh toasted bread and golden brown biscuit tops with a clean, balanced bitterness.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.32/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
This one pours a reddish-brown color, slightly dark, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like toasted biscuits, lightly sweet honey-like bready malt, a clean spicy bitterness, and some caramel.
This is really well done, as the sweetness is restrained but definitely a little bit here, with a hit of spicy hop bitterness cutting across the complex maltiness in the background.
This is lighter bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice smooth finish.
Westbound and Down nails barrel aged beers on the regular, but their lighter fare is also quite good.
Oct 11, 2022This smells like toasted biscuits, lightly sweet honey-like bready malt, a clean spicy bitterness, and some caramel.
This is really well done, as the sweetness is restrained but definitely a little bit here, with a hit of spicy hop bitterness cutting across the complex maltiness in the background.
This is lighter bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice smooth finish.
Westbound and Down nails barrel aged beers on the regular, but their lighter fare is also quite good.
Reviewed by Prager62 from Colorado
4.19/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A beautiful copper mug pour at the brewery that sports a two finger head of creamy off white foam. Beautiful sticky lacing appears as you drink it down. The smell is sweet bread and malt. The taste is dark bread with a little sticky and slightly sweet malt. A big bodied creamy feel that doesn't fill you up. It certainly checks the boxes for the style!
Sep 16, 2022
Reviewed by beergoot from Colorado
4.1/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Revisited October 03rd, 2023 (BA online Oktoberfest tasting)
Pours a clear, light copper color, appears darker in the glass; dense, slow-rising carbonation; thick, frothy, off-white head, long lasting. Pleasantly soft sweetness with a light caramel note in the aroma; toasted grain. Excellent flavor; rich malt sweetness; caramel with roasted nut elements; bitterness appearance starts slowly and builds to a medium-light intensity at the finish. Medium body; smooth and velvety on the palate; light stickiness.
This sample is worlds apart from the beer I reviewed two years ago. The beer comes across fuller, richer, more rounded, and definitely way more satisfying.
Pouring temperature: 49 °F; canning info: BORN ON 08/22/23
Source: local purchase (Coaltrain Fine Wine, Craft Beer & Spirits)
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Original October 03rd, 2021 ratings and scores: 4.0 3.25 3.5 3.5 3.5; BA weighted score: 3.47; rDev: -12.2%
Clear copper colored body; good carbonation; fairly thick head, white and lasting; thick, patchy globs of foam spot the glass. Not much smell noted; very, very faint toasted grain. Light toasted grain flavor with a very strong hop bitterness; very low malt sweetness; slightly phenolic. Medium body; semi-dry.
A fair if unexciting Oktoberfest beer. There is an unbalanced bitterness and bite to the beer while the malt backbone is somewhat weak.
Poured at 45 °F; canning date: BORN ON 09/07/21
Oct 03, 2021Pours a clear, light copper color, appears darker in the glass; dense, slow-rising carbonation; thick, frothy, off-white head, long lasting. Pleasantly soft sweetness with a light caramel note in the aroma; toasted grain. Excellent flavor; rich malt sweetness; caramel with roasted nut elements; bitterness appearance starts slowly and builds to a medium-light intensity at the finish. Medium body; smooth and velvety on the palate; light stickiness.
This sample is worlds apart from the beer I reviewed two years ago. The beer comes across fuller, richer, more rounded, and definitely way more satisfying.
Pouring temperature: 49 °F; canning info: BORN ON 08/22/23
Source: local purchase (Coaltrain Fine Wine, Craft Beer & Spirits)
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Original October 03rd, 2021 ratings and scores: 4.0 3.25 3.5 3.5 3.5; BA weighted score: 3.47; rDev: -12.2%
Clear copper colored body; good carbonation; fairly thick head, white and lasting; thick, patchy globs of foam spot the glass. Not much smell noted; very, very faint toasted grain. Light toasted grain flavor with a very strong hop bitterness; very low malt sweetness; slightly phenolic. Medium body; semi-dry.
A fair if unexciting Oktoberfest beer. There is an unbalanced bitterness and bite to the beer while the malt backbone is somewhat weak.
Poured at 45 °F; canning date: BORN ON 09/07/21
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