Festbier
Private Landbrauerei Schönram

 

 

Poured from fridge temp. Pours a murky orange with a bit of white head. Nose is wheat, grass, lemon peel, and some malts. Nothing too crazy. The taste is relatively sweet orange loaf, toffee, wheat, a bit of brown sugar, and a nice layer of malts. Very easy drinking.

 

 

This is a nicer beer than the Gold. A real German Marzen with nutty malty sweetness.

Bottle of schonramer festbier drank.

Nice caramel aroma and balanced taste. Some nice honey sweetness. Doesn’t really taste like a typical Märzen but that’s not a bad think because this one is definitely better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

500 ml from "Lifesource" S.salem. $4.79 Golden clear beer with a lovelly thick bubbly yet creamy off white head. Good malt driven aroma.mainlly caramel/fudge. The caramel/fudge aspect carries on into the taste yet its balanced by grassy hop making this very balanced indeed. I like. The extreme balance( is that even possible?) gives this a creamy smooth mouthfeel that just rolls over the tongue. I really liked this one very tasty

A: Nice cloudy golden color, and a thin white head. Some lacing.

S: Very grainy, some fruit raisin maybe... also the breaded grainy smell, and malts.

T: Its very good, very clean and sweet up front, then the grainy grassy taste, very nice Marzen.

M: Very light and very smooth, I really enjoy it.

O: This is a very nice Marzen, I'm glad I grabbed it.

Radek's bottle from NYC. Orange wheat aroma. Creamy above average mouthfeel, great head on medium pear colour. Carbonation right there.Significant wheat. Decent drinkability.Not like the style,other than the caramel but a decent beer for the abv. Worth a try.

Been on a bit of a German beer kick recently, and this was one bottle in the arsenal. After taking a gander at the Marzen list, it is a bit too bad so many mediocre Am. offerings head up the list.

Color on this fella is a deep golden almost bordering on light copper. Some decent head retention that fades into a thin lace of tight foam around the edge. Lacing is pretty standard for style, meaning hardly any.

The nose is predominantly bright grain aromas with a lingering dried fruit character in the background: mainly raisin but also picking up on some fig.

Flavors are clean and a bit off style. A very welcoming barley field on a dewy morning followed by some lemongrass. Grains here are not too heavy-handed, which is pretty nice unless you are a stickler for this style.

Feel is crisp, clean, and bright. Dry enough on the finish to leave you reaching for another sip.

Overall, I am a big fan of this one. Definitely a bit of a different take on the style but not offensively. Although a Marzen, this would make for some solid summer drinking.

I actually had this a couple times in late 2009 and this is form my notes as I have some catching up to do (I always rely mostly on handwritten notes and then transfer hither).

Somewhat deep gold with a big, faintly off-white head steadily shrinking to a thin creamy top, a little weak lace.

Aroma is strong, full if somewhat simple helles-type aroma with stronger raisiny-sweet alcohol. It has a lot of somewhat yeasty bread, some barley, herbs, apple. It's quite nice and reasonably full-bodied.

Taste is as above mostly, starting clean, fruity and herbal, then with sweetish zesty bread, grain, apple, hints of herbs, grass and lemon. It has a rather zesty finish with light bitterness to balance the otherwise sweet-leaning character. It's a pretty nice, simple and slightly sweetish but otherwise firmly flavoured, enjoyable version of the light/helles-style of marzen.