Oktoberfest
Good City Brewing
- From:
- Good City Brewing
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 9.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 27, 2026
- Added:
- Sep 24, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can poured into a willi becher glass. Pours a light brown/caramel color with a nice head. Aroma and flavor feature bready malt with a hint of caramel, paired with clean noble hops. Low bitterness. Overall a solid if unmemorable Märzen.
Dec 09, 2023
Reviewed by cyclonece09 from Wisconsin
3.76/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours red orange with a small white head. Smells of sweet fruit and caramelized grain. Tastes of sweet fruit and caramelized grain. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a good beer.
Nov 05, 2023
Rated by magikbagel from Wisconsin
2.75/5 rDev -23.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.75/5 rDev -23.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Didn’t really deliver as an oktoberfest to me. Felt more like a generously hopped amber lager.
Aug 11, 2022
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.09/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Canned on 8/21/20
Pours a foggy, barely translucent pale crimson body topped with two fingers of fluffy, off-white/light tan foam; good head retention yields a half-finger of semi-creamy cap, a frothy, bubbly collar, and a layered smattering of webby lacing ringing around the walls of the glass.
Aroma features earthy caramel accented with light black bread crusts opening as a nutty texture with distant metallic tinges plays with an equally vague minerality over the middle; apple esters, light lager yeast, toasty malts, and oaky toffee alternate milder prominence into the close.
Taste opens with mild, oaky caramel and fresh toast as a tinge of floral hops peak over the mid-palate with over-toasted bread and a familiar metallic tinge; the back end features caramel syrup contrasting dry grass alongside bread crusts and green apple esters on the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a light-medium body alongside a temporarily fluffy, moderate carbonation; a moderate bitterness builds in the background from mid-palate onward, overtaking a milder malty grit as the back end highlights a heavily drying crispness fading quickly to a thinner swallow.
Predominantly sweet and awkwardly bitter as time passes, this Oktoberfest is largely without identity, with disparate elements spiking sporadically for what is ultimately a pretty confused, if not entirely offensive, take on the style; simply too much disarray for this one to serve as anything memorable.
Oct 25, 2020Pours a foggy, barely translucent pale crimson body topped with two fingers of fluffy, off-white/light tan foam; good head retention yields a half-finger of semi-creamy cap, a frothy, bubbly collar, and a layered smattering of webby lacing ringing around the walls of the glass.
Aroma features earthy caramel accented with light black bread crusts opening as a nutty texture with distant metallic tinges plays with an equally vague minerality over the middle; apple esters, light lager yeast, toasty malts, and oaky toffee alternate milder prominence into the close.
Taste opens with mild, oaky caramel and fresh toast as a tinge of floral hops peak over the mid-palate with over-toasted bread and a familiar metallic tinge; the back end features caramel syrup contrasting dry grass alongside bread crusts and green apple esters on the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a light-medium body alongside a temporarily fluffy, moderate carbonation; a moderate bitterness builds in the background from mid-palate onward, overtaking a milder malty grit as the back end highlights a heavily drying crispness fading quickly to a thinner swallow.
Predominantly sweet and awkwardly bitter as time passes, this Oktoberfest is largely without identity, with disparate elements spiking sporadically for what is ultimately a pretty confused, if not entirely offensive, take on the style; simply too much disarray for this one to serve as anything memorable.
Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
3.59/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Saturated amber orange color, long lasting retention with good coverage and some spotty lace. Bright clarity as well.
Aroma of toasted multigrain bread crust, hint of brown sugar, light dried apple ester.
Taste is lightly bitter with an ample dose of toasty malt and dry grassy noble hop finish. Light bodied with a lingering dry bitterness, somewhat astringent initially. Touch of alcohol. Maybe a little too hoppy for purists, but I like it.
2022: Seems too bitter and astringent, seems to be a feature not a bug. Eh.
Oct 06, 2019Aroma of toasted multigrain bread crust, hint of brown sugar, light dried apple ester.
Taste is lightly bitter with an ample dose of toasty malt and dry grassy noble hop finish. Light bodied with a lingering dry bitterness, somewhat astringent initially. Touch of alcohol. Maybe a little too hoppy for purists, but I like it.
2022: Seems too bitter and astringent, seems to be a feature not a bug. Eh.
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