Alpkönig Weitnauer Märzen
Privatbrauerei H. Egerer
- From:
- Privatbrauerei H. Egerer
- Germany
- Style:
- Märzen
Ranked #481 - ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 81
Ranked #36,057 - Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 13.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 11
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
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Reviewed by jngrizzaffi from Texas
3.68/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours a somewhat cloudy dark amber color with a finger width foamy head. Head retention is decent. Lacing is very good. Bready malt and apple aroma. On the taste, there is a bready, malty sweetness, with a juicy apple at the end. A little buttery. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth
Mar 15, 2024
Reviewed by GarrettB from Colorado
3.25/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
November 10th, 2016 - A gift from the Advent Beer Box (I think from Costco), this mellow brew pours a pecan colored brown, and pops up a lovely head - firm enough to start a foam moustache, if one likes. The aroma has a nutty quality with roasted almonds and legumes, and a bitterness to pair off it and remind me I'm drinking a beer. I know these German lagers tend to be less razzle dazzle than American styles but it's nice to sit and appreciate a well balanced beer here and there, and this one gives me that moment of quiet reflection with a little extra emphasis on fine nut flavors.
Jun 12, 2023
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.59/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
$ 2.50 (Including tax)/500 mL can ($0.148/oz) from Costco, Schertz, TX. Part of the Costco 2019 Advent Calendar. Reviewed 11/19/19.
Can dated “EXP 05/2021”. Stored on the shelf at the store, stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 50 degrees in a hand washed and dried 0.5L glass stein.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Dark yellow, clear.
Body – Orange, clear.
Head – Large (Maximum 10.5 cm, stabilizing at 4.5 cm, aggressive center pour), off white, meringue-like, good retention, diminishing to a five mm crown and cap.
Lacing – Good. Narrow three-dimensional bands of tiny to small bubbles
Aroma – 3.25 – Lightly toasted malt with just a hint of caramel, no hops.
Flavor – 3.75 - Begins slightly sweet with lightly toasted malt, very slightly caramel in flavor. A very weak hop bitterness is noted on the aftertaste. No alcohol (5.4 % ABV as marked on the can) flavor or aroma, no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, almost creamy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 Both the aromas and flavors are good but weak. This is probably beneficial because there is some metal on the aftertaste, just noticeable but too weak to be detrimental.
Nov 19, 2019Can dated “EXP 05/2021”. Stored on the shelf at the store, stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 50 degrees in a hand washed and dried 0.5L glass stein.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Dark yellow, clear.
Body – Orange, clear.
Head – Large (Maximum 10.5 cm, stabilizing at 4.5 cm, aggressive center pour), off white, meringue-like, good retention, diminishing to a five mm crown and cap.
Lacing – Good. Narrow three-dimensional bands of tiny to small bubbles
Aroma – 3.25 – Lightly toasted malt with just a hint of caramel, no hops.
Flavor – 3.75 - Begins slightly sweet with lightly toasted malt, very slightly caramel in flavor. A very weak hop bitterness is noted on the aftertaste. No alcohol (5.4 % ABV as marked on the can) flavor or aroma, no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, almost creamy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 Both the aromas and flavors are good but weak. This is probably beneficial because there is some metal on the aftertaste, just noticeable but too weak to be detrimental.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
1.96/5 rDev -42.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
1.96/5 rDev -42.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
CAN: From 2019 Costco Beer Advent Calendar 24 pack. 500ml pull-tab with a green label.
5.4% ABV.
Clear copper body.
Fluffy white head sticks around for ~8 minutes.
AROMA: Sweet, suggesting pale malt, Munich malt, and some candied sweetness. No grassy/Noble hop aromatics. Butterscotch. Bready sweetness. Seems underattenuated with heavy residual sugar still remaining.
The off-putting sweetness is tough to get past.
TASTE: Off-puttingly sweet indeed. Marmelade, candied orange peel, Munich malt sweetness, pale malt sweetness...where's the balance? Buttery notes, toffee.
I find no Noble hop presence whatsoever. There's no bitterness to counteract all the sweetness. Ugh.
TEXTURE: Coating, smooth, wet, unrefreshing, medium-bodied, well-carbonated. Filling.
Not oily, astringent, gushed, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
OVERALL: A saccharine brew that's way off the intended style. It's hard to imagine quaffing this by the litre at a beer festival, let alone taking down a single can...this is cloying and difficult to drink (the opposite of what the style demands). Every American Märzen I tried this season was better than this...what an embarrassment to Germany.
D- / NOT RECOMMENDED
Oct 05, 20195.4% ABV.
Clear copper body.
Fluffy white head sticks around for ~8 minutes.
AROMA: Sweet, suggesting pale malt, Munich malt, and some candied sweetness. No grassy/Noble hop aromatics. Butterscotch. Bready sweetness. Seems underattenuated with heavy residual sugar still remaining.
The off-putting sweetness is tough to get past.
TASTE: Off-puttingly sweet indeed. Marmelade, candied orange peel, Munich malt sweetness, pale malt sweetness...where's the balance? Buttery notes, toffee.
I find no Noble hop presence whatsoever. There's no bitterness to counteract all the sweetness. Ugh.
TEXTURE: Coating, smooth, wet, unrefreshing, medium-bodied, well-carbonated. Filling.
Not oily, astringent, gushed, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
OVERALL: A saccharine brew that's way off the intended style. It's hard to imagine quaffing this by the litre at a beer festival, let alone taking down a single can...this is cloying and difficult to drink (the opposite of what the style demands). Every American Märzen I tried this season was better than this...what an embarrassment to Germany.
D- / NOT RECOMMENDED
Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain
3.58/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Can. From Costco. In Bavaria hefe glass. Playing Bioshock Remastered. Big body here, very mouthfilling, with wheaty bananas notes resembling a dark weizen more than a marzen. Smooth to the palate
Dec 23, 2017
Reviewed by BenHoppy from Michigan
3.79/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.79/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured into tall wheat glass:
L: caramelly pecan maple marzen body with cream head
A: malted nutty caramel
T: not as delightful as the taste or look but not bad. Flavors of burnt malted caramel and toffee that is tad bit buttery and bready
F: thin to medium with a bit of burnt creaminess
O: it's a medicore Oktoberfest that isn't the best but far from being the worst. It hits the notes of fall and not bad to have leading up to the couple days before Christmas! A good cheer to celebrate Festivus.
Dec 23, 2017L: caramelly pecan maple marzen body with cream head
A: malted nutty caramel
T: not as delightful as the taste or look but not bad. Flavors of burnt malted caramel and toffee that is tad bit buttery and bready
F: thin to medium with a bit of burnt creaminess
O: it's a medicore Oktoberfest that isn't the best but far from being the worst. It hits the notes of fall and not bad to have leading up to the couple days before Christmas! A good cheer to celebrate Festivus.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
3.52/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
CAN
Creamy ivory over pale amber. 3.75
Tin, autumn leaf and sticky caramel. 3.5
Slight cracker, tart caramel, slight toast, and just peters off. 3.5
Almost medium, clingy, round. 3.5
Color is right, nose is too sweet. Aside from some oxidation, mostly not flawed. Absent of hops, though, and even the malt character is, for a Marzen, understrength. Barely passable. 3.5
Feb 22, 2017Creamy ivory over pale amber. 3.75
Tin, autumn leaf and sticky caramel. 3.5
Slight cracker, tart caramel, slight toast, and just peters off. 3.5
Almost medium, clingy, round. 3.5
Color is right, nose is too sweet. Aside from some oxidation, mostly not flawed. Absent of hops, though, and even the malt character is, for a Marzen, understrength. Barely passable. 3.5
Reviewed by edward_boumil from New York
3.33/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Very thin and sort of yeasty. Not my favorite marzen but not terrible. Flavors standard of a marzen are present, light toasty grain, light caramel, mild hops. But could really use just a touch more hop balance.
Feb 09, 2017
Reviewed by josephandbrown from Oregon
3.84/5 rDev +12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
Pour: Poured from a 16.9 oz can into an American Shaker pint glass.
Look: Very light amber color. Creamy but very short-lived head. Perfect in clarity.
Aroma: Very light on all accounts. Somewhat bready. No hop aromas.
Mouthfeel: Medium carbonation. Somewhat astringent on the swallow.
Flavor: Big barley notes. Sweet on first sip but dry soon after. Light hop bitterness on finish.
Today is Day 1 of the Brewer's Advent Calendar, an assortment of German beers to be consumed each day of December leading up to Christmas. As a märzen, it is similar to an Oktoberfest (in fact, märzen was the first beer served at the festival, and was the main beer until the more modern festbier took over), but a little less sweet and a little darker.
Most lagers have a distinctive smell to me, similar to wet grains. This is similar to the common descriptor bready, but the wetness makes it unique for me. I am not sure if this is from the lagering process (wherein the beer is stored at cool temperatures and often clarified several times) or if it is just a result of the lack of hop aroma, but it is present in almost every non-light lager I have consumed. I get little else from the smell- there is no hop aroma, and I get nothing from the malt beyond the wet grain.
The first sip has a deceptive sweetness that is washed away with a light bitterness and leaves a dry feeling in the mouth. Bread comes up again, not quite a toasted flavor, but something akin to bread crusts. The carbonation seems perfect for the style, providing a little burn on the tongue without being overly effervescent.
Dec 02, 2016Look: Very light amber color. Creamy but very short-lived head. Perfect in clarity.
Aroma: Very light on all accounts. Somewhat bready. No hop aromas.
Mouthfeel: Medium carbonation. Somewhat astringent on the swallow.
Flavor: Big barley notes. Sweet on first sip but dry soon after. Light hop bitterness on finish.
Today is Day 1 of the Brewer's Advent Calendar, an assortment of German beers to be consumed each day of December leading up to Christmas. As a märzen, it is similar to an Oktoberfest (in fact, märzen was the first beer served at the festival, and was the main beer until the more modern festbier took over), but a little less sweet and a little darker.
Most lagers have a distinctive smell to me, similar to wet grains. This is similar to the common descriptor bready, but the wetness makes it unique for me. I am not sure if this is from the lagering process (wherein the beer is stored at cool temperatures and often clarified several times) or if it is just a result of the lack of hop aroma, but it is present in almost every non-light lager I have consumed. I get little else from the smell- there is no hop aroma, and I get nothing from the malt beyond the wet grain.
The first sip has a deceptive sweetness that is washed away with a light bitterness and leaves a dry feeling in the mouth. Bread comes up again, not quite a toasted flavor, but something akin to bread crusts. The carbonation seems perfect for the style, providing a little burn on the tongue without being overly effervescent.
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