Excessive Celebrations
Otherlands Beer

2025 bottling; consumed on 11/14/2025

Pours a crystal-clear, deep golden hue capped with two fingers of creamy, eggshell-white foam; great head retention yields a finger of cap, immense, frothy collar, and ample array of chunky, webby lacing spread around the walls of the glass.

Aroma wafts notes of honey predominant upfront, with fresh white bread residuals fading to cereal grain as peppery yeast undertones mark a backing minerality with steady composure.

Taste offers brown bread met with brief waves of honey, leaving a fruity yeast informing quietly while a distant, toasty nuttiness fades through the finish.

Mouthfeel shows a lighter body and a full, fluffy carbonation, levying an airy prickle through the mid-palate as a gently flaky dryness finishes.

A deft expanse of wildflower honey paired with a tautly formed malt structure; a thoughtfully straightforward Festbier executed with refinement.

 

Clear yellow brew with exuberant foam in the Blanche de Chambly gobler. Very light and bright in the mouth with sprightly carbonation. The first sips seem kind of anemic, but it warms to a restrained and less malty sort of Festbier rather than the Marzen style. There is some malty sweetness of course, but it fades to the lemony along with the modest leafy hop taste. Overall this is quite quaffable, and a lighter sort of Oktoberfest. From the 500 ml bottle purchased at Elizabeth Station some time back. "Batch No. 4" marked on the label.

Poured into a Gulden Draak tulip. Pours a medium coppery golden amber with a one finger fine, white head with great retention and thick lacing. Aroma of bready and lightly grainy malt, mild caramel, grassy and floral hops. Flavor is also grainy and bready malt, toffee, grassy and floral hops. Medium bodied with silky moderate creaminess, great mouth feel. A delightful domestic take on a Oktoberfest beer, perhaps more like the modern festbier rather than a marzen. The color and caramel are little lighter than the old fashioned marzen style. What really sets this apart is the fine flavorful malt and hops that Otherlands excels at. The floral notes of the hops are particularly appealing. There is a touch of saison to this and a little more hopping than a traditional Octoberfest, but it is faithful to the style while being more hop and malt forward. I really liked this a lot.

his beer is very pretty, crystal clear gold, just a tint on the darker side of gold. The head is as beautiful as it looks, the retention was so good it took forever for me to pour this glass and in fact I still couldn't fit it all. That head just linger and lingered, it did finally subside into soapy white islands, with some spotty lacing.

Sweet bready malts, some honey, floral notes from the hops, all very well balanced. No aroma overpowers the other.

This beer is like drinking a biscuit that has some sort of dried flower in it that was then just drizzled with the smallest amount of honey. But at the same time there is a crisp bite to it which reminds me of refreshing lemon. The sweetness is just perfect, its just enough to notice and then its gone.

This beer drinks like the German festbiers, it has some body to it but it goes down like water and just begs for the next sip. I'm halfway done and its been about 10 minutes, not intentional, this beer is some wizardry.