Wiesener Festmärzen
Bürgerliches Brauhaus Wiesen

 

Pours a light amber/brown with a fairly small head. Aroma is malty wheat and slightly sweet. Taste is the same with a smooth mouthfeel. Not much hop bitterness. Flavorful and easy drinking. BB 2-2026

Chill hazed light gold. Malty and light bready aroma and flavor. Good balance with light sweetness. Light to medium bodied, crisp, clean, and refreshing.

 

 

Very clear light amber/orange appearance
Medium body with close to medium carbonation
Aroma is grain, roasted grain,bread/toast
Taste is almost dry, grain,cereal

Review: 2519
Name: Wiesener Festmarzen
Brewery: Burgerliches Brauhaus Wiesen
Location: Wiesen, Germany
Style: Marzen
ABV: 5.6%
Canned: Unknown, Best Before June 2026
Date: 23 November 2025
The last Marzen of the box. I tried a Helles from this brewery and it was good. I am using a pint glass and serving at 44 degrees. The pour created a frothy, foamy, two-fingered, white head with excellent retention. The slow dissipation left chunks of lacing on the glass. The color is golden yellow with a light straw hue, SRM 6, and is clear. The beer's appearance is above average for a Marzen; I was not expecting it to be so light.
Nosing the beer, I detect notes of lightly toasted malts, caramel, floral bouquet, grassy notes, and malty sweetness.
The flavors are floral, grassy, floral esters, caramel, white pepper, light resin, light herbal, lightly toasted malts, bready, and a malty sweetness.
The mouthfeel is slightly astringent, finishing crisp and smooth. The body is medium and medium carbonation.
Final Thought: A delicate malt profile with a lovely soft hop profile. The marzen has an interesting hoppy spiciness. I want the malt profile to have more depth.

It's smooth, and goes down easily. I started the box with ones I expected to be least favorite, and now getting to the ones I like better.

 

Brauhaus Wiesen "Wiesener Festmärzen"
500 ml can "BEST BEFORE 08/2026" and sampled on 24 October 2025
$59.99 / 24 can case - Costco's Biergarten Collection, Costco, Christiana, DE

Notes via stream of consciousness: Ah, very nice, a festmärzen. What's the ABV? 5.6 - not bad. I like these beers because they're full of flavor but not so strong that you can't drink a few. It's poured a clear deep-golden body beneath a rocky head of white foam. The aroma is malty, sweetish, and unfortunately a little metallic. Let's taste it and see if I'm losing my mind or not... no, there's definitely some metallic character there. It's not bad though, it doesn't kill the beer, but I wonder where it came from. Sometimes with processing post-fermentation you can pick up metallic notes due to poor or irregular cleaning. Another way is through hops that have become moist and thus moldy. I don't know, but at least it's not bad, and I say that because I had another can of beer from the Costco Biergarten Collection that was ruined by it. That was canned by a different brewery; this one is canned by Brauerei Rittmayer. Back to the beer, it's malty, grainy, bready and sweetish but not overly so, and some floral, herbal, and spicy hops run through it. It's nicely rounded. What is it that I read on the label? - translated from Deutch, it's full bodied with a delicate malt aroma. Yeah, I'd say that that's true. It's a pleasantly malty beer of standard strength that's similar to a helles bock but not quite there. A stiff bitterness balances it and it finishes mainly dry with some almost honeyish malt lingering. In the mouth it's medium-full in body and gently crisp. The head held up well and the lacing that's left behind is quite nice. Apart from the minor metallic issue it's a great beer.
Review #9,321

 

Clear medium gold pour, strong tightly packed foam head, bits if lace trailing. Nose is malt and herbs.

Taste is clean light kilned malt, light grassiness, steady herbal hops. Miuthfeel is velvety and tongue coating. Finish sees the malt and hops still working together in harmony, with a herbal push being the last note.

 

Part of a variety 24-pack 16.9 oz cans Costco $59.99
9 months before best by date month
Smell of malts, grains
Clear golden color
Taste of malts, a little caramel, grains
Overall an ok beer.

From the half liter can in the 2025 Costco Biergarten Collection, it pours a clear light golden amber color with a large, long lasting white head. Lacing. The nose gets some grass and sweet malt. The mouth follows with a lightly malty brew that is extremely easy to drink. Mild aftertaste.

 

Clear golden yellow brew with abundant foam in the pilsner glass. Lush and sudsy in the mouth. Malty for sure, but as tangy finish. Tastes of toasted grain with some caramel. This is definitely the sweeter Märzen style of Festbier, but perfectly quaffable. From the 500 ml can in the Costco Biergarten box.