Forever Fest
Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon
- From:
- Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Festbier / Wiesnbier
Ranked #112 - ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #30,458 - Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 9.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 02, 2026
- Added:
- Jun 09, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
A fusion of Festbier and Helles, this golden lager pours with hints of honeyed toast and a floral, citrusy finish from whole cone hops. Crisp, light, and easy-drinking.
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Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
2.96/5 rDev -19.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.96/5 rDev -19.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
On draft at Brews On the Alley in Seneca, SC.
Poured with a short, rather weak off-white head over a slightly hazy golden body.
Aroma. Remarkably light and unappealing.
Fortunately, the flavor is way better than the aroma suggests although it too is quite mild.
Mouthfeel. Light body that would likely benefit from more carbonation.
Jan 02, 2026Poured with a short, rather weak off-white head over a slightly hazy golden body.
Aroma. Remarkably light and unappealing.
Fortunately, the flavor is way better than the aroma suggests although it too is quite mild.
Mouthfeel. Light body that would likely benefit from more carbonation.
Reviewed by BJB13 from Maryland
3.97/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
16 ounce can poured into a.5L dimpled mug.
PKG: 05/13/25
L: Cloudy yellow pour, 2” white head, loose foam is persistent, a little lace.
S: Lighter strength nose, whiff of white bread, then spicy/lemon hops, note of apple come later.
T: Balanced malt to hop, bread grain, limited honey sweetness, earth and spice hop flavor, mild bitterness, sharpens at the finish.
F: Medium body, delicate carbonation, smooth and creamy feel.
O: Easy drinking, decent flavor, nice example of the style.
Nov 30, 2025PKG: 05/13/25
L: Cloudy yellow pour, 2” white head, loose foam is persistent, a little lace.
S: Lighter strength nose, whiff of white bread, then spicy/lemon hops, note of apple come later.
T: Balanced malt to hop, bread grain, limited honey sweetness, earth and spice hop flavor, mild bitterness, sharpens at the finish.
F: Medium body, delicate carbonation, smooth and creamy feel.
O: Easy drinking, decent flavor, nice example of the style.
Reviewed by SLeffler27 from New York
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
This one is clear, with a brownish-yellow color and fine carbonation that rapidly rises within. One inch of off-white froth lasts a few minutes before turning to a thick blanket. (SRM 3-4). No lace was deposited on a Spaten dimpled mug.
The aroma is fresh and floral, with herbal notes and strong lime. The malt is very faint.
The flavor has surprisingly crisp malt, given the aroma. It has a mild bitterness that builds into the finish. Lemon pith is the only other characteristic I noticed.
It has a medium body with alcohol as expected. The texture is similar to soft neoprene, with a sharp edge that is admittedly odd. Carbonation adds a fine scouring. There are some metallic notes that build with warmth.
While this is not quite what is expected of the style, it is nonetheless refreshing and pleasant. This is probably better suited to a summer afternoon than it is to a cool and crisp early autumn day.
Nov 29, 2025The aroma is fresh and floral, with herbal notes and strong lime. The malt is very faint.
The flavor has surprisingly crisp malt, given the aroma. It has a mild bitterness that builds into the finish. Lemon pith is the only other characteristic I noticed.
It has a medium body with alcohol as expected. The texture is similar to soft neoprene, with a sharp edge that is admittedly odd. Carbonation adds a fine scouring. There are some metallic notes that build with warmth.
While this is not quite what is expected of the style, it is nonetheless refreshing and pleasant. This is probably better suited to a summer afternoon than it is to a cool and crisp early autumn day.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.86/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Clear golden body with a consistent white head a finger high. Aromas of hops bringing flowers and gentle bitters atop grainy and bready yeast with some honeycomb. Taste is not as hoppy though leans that way for the style, bright and grainy accents to the covering breadiness that defines the sip in the end. Feel is medium bodied, bright and clearly new world but never gets too hoppy
Nov 10, 2025
Reviewed by crazyspicychef from Pennsylvania
3.28/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.75
3.28/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.75
The appearance is nice, with bright brassy clear liquid supported by a nice tight white head that leaves nice lace on the glass.
The taste is where it looses me. The hops taste wrong and it leaves a crisp bite on your tongue, more akin to a Pilsner.
To me, it tastes more like an American Pils than a Festbier.
It's not bad, but off for the expected style and I won't get it again.
Oct 23, 2025The taste is where it looses me. The hops taste wrong and it leaves a crisp bite on your tongue, more akin to a Pilsner.
To me, it tastes more like an American Pils than a Festbier.
It's not bad, but off for the expected style and I won't get it again.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.39/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a very clear golden yellow color, definitely a festbier in appearance, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like a hoppier take on the style, but it’s an enjoyable aroma all the same, with a nice lightly toasted breadiness.
This definitely feels like a bit of a mix of a pale ale and a festbier, but I don’t hate it. It’s got a dry spicy hop character, and a clean bitterness, with a nice biscuity and very toasty malt character.
This is light bodied, super crisp, and clean, with a great drinkability.
This isn’t quite traditionally to style, but I don’t really care, it was quite good.
Oct 15, 2025This smells like a hoppier take on the style, but it’s an enjoyable aroma all the same, with a nice lightly toasted breadiness.
This definitely feels like a bit of a mix of a pale ale and a festbier, but I don’t hate it. It’s got a dry spicy hop character, and a clean bitterness, with a nice biscuity and very toasty malt character.
This is light bodied, super crisp, and clean, with a great drinkability.
This isn’t quite traditionally to style, but I don’t really care, it was quite good.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.69/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Canned on 5/13/25; consumed on 9/16/25
Pours a slightly foggy sunflower-gold body capped with multiple fingers of dense, soapy, off-white foam; good head retention yields a slight cap, modest, frothy collar, and a limited few strands of lacing spread around the walls of the glass.
Aroma offers notes of straw and a healthy backing minerality before settling to touches of honey wheat bread and biscuit undertones.
Taste opens to straw as fruity esters brighten and a tinge of grassiness intervenes; honey in the distance over the mid-palate leads to bread crust overtones into the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a light body and moderate-full carbonation, fading to a spritzy fluff over the mid-palate and a level crispness on a dry, refreshing finish.
Attenuated bread and balanced sweetness mark this snappy, implicitly satisfying festbier.
Sep 17, 2025Pours a slightly foggy sunflower-gold body capped with multiple fingers of dense, soapy, off-white foam; good head retention yields a slight cap, modest, frothy collar, and a limited few strands of lacing spread around the walls of the glass.
Aroma offers notes of straw and a healthy backing minerality before settling to touches of honey wheat bread and biscuit undertones.
Taste opens to straw as fruity esters brighten and a tinge of grassiness intervenes; honey in the distance over the mid-palate leads to bread crust overtones into the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a light body and moderate-full carbonation, fading to a spritzy fluff over the mid-palate and a level crispness on a dry, refreshing finish.
Attenuated bread and balanced sweetness mark this snappy, implicitly satisfying festbier.
Reviewed by hopsputin from New Jersey
3.59/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
a: slightly murky dark amber copper color with some bright yellow towards the bottom of the glass. thing 1/2 finger white head
s: sweet grains, grass, lager spice. wet grass, crusty bread, and light malts. some faint earthy herbal sweet notes
t: sweet grains and some earthy citrus notes. lots of crusty bread and some lemongrass. lager spice and light malt sweetness with some very mild herbal sweetness
m: light mouthfeel with medium carbonation
o: definitely lacking in the malt department in this one. too much citrus, not enough malt depth for me
Aug 01, 2025s: sweet grains, grass, lager spice. wet grass, crusty bread, and light malts. some faint earthy herbal sweet notes
t: sweet grains and some earthy citrus notes. lots of crusty bread and some lemongrass. lager spice and light malt sweetness with some very mild herbal sweetness
m: light mouthfeel with medium carbonation
o: definitely lacking in the malt department in this one. too much citrus, not enough malt depth for me
Reviewed by Spankyrightus from Maryland
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Golden draught with high clarity, minimal head. Toasted malt up front, slightly grainy, a little bready, faint sweetness along with the citrus notes . Bitterness is mild and enjoyable.
Jul 14, 2025
Reviewed by AccipiterofBeer from New York
3.45/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
it gives me no joy to admit that this lager did not impress me. The Autumn Landscape oktoberfest lagers were excellent. This one falls well short of the standard those beers set. The appearance is the best aspect. Nice coloration, maybe a slight haze to it. The nose is floral and grainy. The taste is too estery for my liking. Nice mouthfeel but not as pleasant as most festbiers. IA has done better and can do better.
Jun 09, 2025
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