Superior
Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH
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- Style:
- Lager - Märzen / Oktoberfest
Ranked #283 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #36,011 - Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 14.32%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- From:
- Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH
- Germany
- Avail:
- Rotating/Seasonal
- Wants
- 4
- Gots
- 6
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
Notes:
Reviews: 11
| Ratings: 37
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Reviews by JohnnyK:
More User Reviews:
steverx8 from England
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 25, 2019
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 25, 2019
stcules from Italy
2.97/5 rDev -19.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Deep golden, clear. White foam, with some bubble.
In the smell, quite fresh, hay, some hop. All above a strong malty base.
The taste is definitely malty, with dusty notes, and again hay on the back.
It left a warming feeling. Not bad, quit pleasant.
Average to high in body.
The aftertaste starts malty, then some hop, not too much, but right to balance.
Jul 21, 2008
2.97/5 rDev -19.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Deep golden, clear. White foam, with some bubble.
In the smell, quite fresh, hay, some hop. All above a strong malty base.
The taste is definitely malty, with dusty notes, and again hay on the back.
It left a warming feeling. Not bad, quit pleasant.
Average to high in body.
The aftertaste starts malty, then some hop, not too much, but right to balance.
Jul 21, 2008
TheSarge from Virginia
3.15/5 rDev -14.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Produces a good two finger thick white head that dissipates kind of quickly. The body of this brew is clear, and is a bit darker gold than what a helles would be.
Aroma wise it's a bit on the spicy side, something in the way of tobacco, and sweet cereal grain husk.
The taste is pretty on par for the style, nothing really jumps out, though. Just a little grainy sweetness, and cracker like dryness.
Nov 02, 2009
3.15/5 rDev -14.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Produces a good two finger thick white head that dissipates kind of quickly. The body of this brew is clear, and is a bit darker gold than what a helles would be.
Aroma wise it's a bit on the spicy side, something in the way of tobacco, and sweet cereal grain husk.
The taste is pretty on par for the style, nothing really jumps out, though. Just a little grainy sweetness, and cracker like dryness.
Nov 02, 2009
seanyfo from Scotland
4.32/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A - 50cl bottle ppoured into my Paulaner Seidel. Agressively poured producing a 3 finger rocky head that disappates to a 1/2 finger head. Lively beading, minimal lacing.
S - A light malty caramel nutty sweetness. Smells very fresh, some nice bakery sweet cinnamon bread like smell, this is very subtle though.
T - Light marzen sweetness, not overly powering in sweetness, bakery fresh bread taste comes through in the finish, very nice.
M- Medium carbonation, fresh, nice mouthfeel, not syrupy or stale.
D- Very nice festbier, my favourite of the Christmas time festbiers, its fresh crisp and the flavours are subtle which makes it moreish.
Excellent!
Feb 07, 2008
4.32/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A - 50cl bottle ppoured into my Paulaner Seidel. Agressively poured producing a 3 finger rocky head that disappates to a 1/2 finger head. Lively beading, minimal lacing.
S - A light malty caramel nutty sweetness. Smells very fresh, some nice bakery sweet cinnamon bread like smell, this is very subtle though.
T - Light marzen sweetness, not overly powering in sweetness, bakery fresh bread taste comes through in the finish, very nice.
M- Medium carbonation, fresh, nice mouthfeel, not syrupy or stale.
D- Very nice festbier, my favourite of the Christmas time festbiers, its fresh crisp and the flavours are subtle which makes it moreish.
Excellent!
Feb 07, 2008
MTNboy from Germany
3.33/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I would say that this beer lays somewhere between a marzen and a bock. It poured into my extended tumbler with an off white head and orange body with lots of carbonation to the body. All that dissipated relatively quickly. The aroma was sharp and so was the flavor at first. Then it settled down to being very malty. The mouthfeel was very slick.
Jan 20, 2014
3.33/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I would say that this beer lays somewhere between a marzen and a bock. It poured into my extended tumbler with an off white head and orange body with lots of carbonation to the body. All that dissipated relatively quickly. The aroma was sharp and so was the flavor at first. Then it settled down to being very malty. The mouthfeel was very slick.
Jan 20, 2014
biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml swing-top bottle. This is the Limited Edition Series Festbier, purportedly the same stuff they serve at Oktoberfest, now available thusly in North America.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and densely foamy bone-white head, which leaves a decent wall of pockmarked concrete lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of bready, doughy, and slightly biscuity pale malt, a bit of red apple skin, a soft twinge of caramel/toffee sweetness, and earthy, leafy, and mildly floral noble hops. The taste is more of the same - bready, lightly caramelized and grainy malt, a touch of doughy yeast, muddled underripe apple and pear, and reserved earthy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is plain in its rendition, but plainly effective at the same time, the body medium-light in weight, well smooth, and perhaps a tad creamy. It finishes a bit on the sweet side, the already tame hops kicking off entirely.
In the marketing blurb on the back label, this is touted as a 'drier' version of the original Oktoberfest-Marzen - hard to believe that, as I'm not getting a whole lot of hop or alcohol essence, or any other unknown source of drying potential. Besides, that, this is a simple, easy-drinking, and booze up-ticked lager - nice for the brewer to let we Oktoberfest non-attendees in on what's goin' on.
Sep 28, 2014
3.61/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml swing-top bottle. This is the Limited Edition Series Festbier, purportedly the same stuff they serve at Oktoberfest, now available thusly in North America.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and densely foamy bone-white head, which leaves a decent wall of pockmarked concrete lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of bready, doughy, and slightly biscuity pale malt, a bit of red apple skin, a soft twinge of caramel/toffee sweetness, and earthy, leafy, and mildly floral noble hops. The taste is more of the same - bready, lightly caramelized and grainy malt, a touch of doughy yeast, muddled underripe apple and pear, and reserved earthy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is plain in its rendition, but plainly effective at the same time, the body medium-light in weight, well smooth, and perhaps a tad creamy. It finishes a bit on the sweet side, the already tame hops kicking off entirely.
In the marketing blurb on the back label, this is touted as a 'drier' version of the original Oktoberfest-Marzen - hard to believe that, as I'm not getting a whole lot of hop or alcohol essence, or any other unknown source of drying potential. Besides, that, this is a simple, easy-drinking, and booze up-ticked lager - nice for the brewer to let we Oktoberfest non-attendees in on what's goin' on.
Sep 28, 2014
Anacross from Oregon
4.13/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A Hacker-Pschorr's seasonal beer, the type that is hit or miss. A Marzen Oktoberfest beer that stands in quality with all others from this brewery. That alone should bring you to this beer.
A perfect mix of grains, fruits, malts in a dark copper liquid that is pure delight.
Dec 22, 2018
4.13/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A Hacker-Pschorr's seasonal beer, the type that is hit or miss. A Marzen Oktoberfest beer that stands in quality with all others from this brewery. That alone should bring you to this beer.
A perfect mix of grains, fruits, malts in a dark copper liquid that is pure delight.
Dec 22, 2018
skypup from Germany
3.5/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
One bottle purchased from Gausler Getrankmarkt in Sulzbach-Rosenburg.
.5L bottle served in a tall beer glass.
A - Clear, Deep Gold, course two ifnger head the dissipated quickly no lacing.
S - malty, touches of toffee and touch of sweetness.
T - Toasted malts, hint of breadiness, has a subtle earthy feel to it. Mellows to a pleasant bitterness.
M- medium body, medium carbonation. Doesn't leave much of an aftertaste compared to other marzens.
D- Pretty good beer, definately worth trying.
Nov 06, 2011
3.5/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
One bottle purchased from Gausler Getrankmarkt in Sulzbach-Rosenburg.
.5L bottle served in a tall beer glass.
A - Clear, Deep Gold, course two ifnger head the dissipated quickly no lacing.
S - malty, touches of toffee and touch of sweetness.
T - Toasted malts, hint of breadiness, has a subtle earthy feel to it. Mellows to a pleasant bitterness.
M- medium body, medium carbonation. Doesn't leave much of an aftertaste compared to other marzens.
D- Pretty good beer, definately worth trying.
Nov 06, 2011
stevoj from Idaho
2.95/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Poured from a half litre bottle into lager glass. Thick head quickly faded into faint head, leaving minimal lacing on glass. Not the usual spiciness from a Christmas beer. Color is normal golden hue of lager beer. Light carbonation. tastes much like a normal pilsener to me (sampled with other European christmas beers). Nothing special here....
Dec 26, 2011
2.95/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Poured from a half litre bottle into lager glass. Thick head quickly faded into faint head, leaving minimal lacing on glass. Not the usual spiciness from a Christmas beer. Color is normal golden hue of lager beer. Light carbonation. tastes much like a normal pilsener to me (sampled with other European christmas beers). Nothing special here....
Dec 26, 2011
zenithberwyn from California
4.25/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dec 18, 2014
4.25/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dec 18, 2014
Ciocanelu from Romania
3/5 rDev -18.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Aroma has sweet malts, grains, bread crust and a bit of alcohol. Taste starts slightly sweet and malty but gets bitter on the finish. The hops are generic and give a harsh bitterness on the finish and linger in the aftertaste. Medium body and carbonation. Not a style I enjoy too much.
Jan 04, 2016
3/5 rDev -18.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Aroma has sweet malts, grains, bread crust and a bit of alcohol. Taste starts slightly sweet and malty but gets bitter on the finish. The hops are generic and give a harsh bitterness on the finish and linger in the aftertaste. Medium body and carbonation. Not a style I enjoy too much.
Jan 04, 2016
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Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
37 ratings
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