Greetings from Germany
Muskoka Brewery

473 ml can served cold into a pint glass. LCBO purchase for around $3.75 CDN.

Appearance - Lightly hazy, dark golden brew with lots of bubbles and a finger plus of reasonably long lived white head.

Smell - Clean and plenty grainy, some nice biscuity bits and strong malt backbone.

Taste - Biscuity brew with just a hint of grassy flavors, moderate bitterness. A pretty solid Festbier with just a suggestion of earthy fall flavors.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, leaning towards full. Crisp carbonation.

Overall - Solid Festbier, that would hold up ok in comparison with some of the best Germany has to offer.

Can: Poured a clear amber color festbier with a large slightly off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of cereal notes with light dry caramel notes and some light herbal notes. Taste is also a mix of cereal notes with dry caramel notes and light herbal notes and residual faint sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Well brewed festbier with good drinkability.

 

I bought a can at the LCBO in Ontario 473ml 5.5%.
Poured into glass with a 2 finger head...dark amber color
Malty taste easy drinking tho with a medium bitterness level.
It's actually a very good holiday beer to drink in the winter months yes I would definitely buy again..
Cheers..

473 mL can from the LCBO; best before Feb 16 2023 and served slightly chilled.

Pours a clear golden-amber colour, stirring up half a finger of frothy, off-white head that fizzles within a minute or two. A tight collar and patchy film are left floating upon the surface, with minimal lace deposition - looks alright to me. Clean, straightforward aroma of grainy, bready malts, including hints of lightly caramelized sugars, honey and perhaps a smidgen of floral hops.

A very clean-tasting, malt-forward German-style lager. Bready flavours dominate, with notes of toasted grain, caramelized sugars and honey sweetness lasting into the tail end of the sip; suggestions of floral hops and earthiness during a lightly sweet/malty finish that precedes a clean aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with mild carbonation that gives a gentle bite to this lager's smooth mouthfeel. Fantastic drinkability - I could drink this all day, precisely what you want from a festbier.

Final Grade: 3.77, a B+. Greetings From Germany is a quality lager that I'd encourage other German beer fans to seek out and try, while it's still readily available. I realize I've already over-used the term 'clean' in this review, but for a malt-forward lager it really is immaculately so. Having only a limited amount of experience with festbiers, it's difficult for me to rate this beer solely on its merits within that style. I will say that this is one of the better ones I've had, and I'd also take it over (most) of the common seasonal Ontario märzens you can find at this time of year.

Pours dark gold with visible rising bubbles and a loose whispy head. Sweet and grainy on the nose. Also sweet on the taste, with caramel notes with a full bodied malt background.
Oct 10 2022