Oktoberfestbier
Augustiner-Bräu


- From:
- Augustiner-Bräu
- Germany
- Style:
- Festbier / Wiesnbier
Ranked #8 - ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #11,040 - Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 11.25%
- Reviews:
- 43
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 13, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2002
- Wants:
- 44
- Gots:
- 15
This singular speciality of the Augustiner brewery is dispensed exclusively at Munich's Oktoberfest.
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Reviewed by Sinte
3.01/5 rDev -24.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
3.01/5 rDev -24.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Bottle 0.5L.
Dark goled body, with an average white head, fully diminishing with fair lacing; low density of medium-sized bubbles.
Moderate-to heavy malty aroma (grains, maybe some toasted) with light hoppy notes (grass and citrus).
Moderate sweet flavour with light bitterness.
Medium body with an oily texture; medium carbonation; some metallic feeling in the finish.
Not as good as expected.
Mar 13, 2025Dark goled body, with an average white head, fully diminishing with fair lacing; low density of medium-sized bubbles.
Moderate-to heavy malty aroma (grains, maybe some toasted) with light hoppy notes (grass and citrus).
Moderate sweet flavour with light bitterness.
Medium body with an oily texture; medium carbonation; some metallic feeling in the finish.
Not as good as expected.
Rated by josanguapo from Spain
4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
De OkassionalBeer. En copa de hefe de Weihenstephander. Jugando a Walking Dead Final season. Maltosa y fresca, rellenando la boca
Oct 30, 2024Reviewed by Parmesan from Colorado
4.15/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
L: Pours a pale straw yellow with a small white head and no lacing on the glass.
S: Sweet toasted bread, a nice malty sweetness, and a lighter noble hop
T: Toasted bread and sweet malt, mixes with a delicate noble hop.
F: Light and crisp and easy drinking
O: This is a perfect festbier for imbibing lots of it.
Oct 17, 2024S: Sweet toasted bread, a nice malty sweetness, and a lighter noble hop
T: Toasted bread and sweet malt, mixes with a delicate noble hop.
F: Light and crisp and easy drinking
O: This is a perfect festbier for imbibing lots of it.
Reviewed by erosier from Connecticut
4.5/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Had this on tap at the Augustiner tent at the 2024 Oktoberfest. Pours a really nice looking yellow color, completely clear, with a decent fluffy white head that laced the glass nicely on the way down. Smells of perfectly toasted malts, some sweetness and oakyness to it. The taste is just as good as the aroma, great toasted malt mix with a toasted malt backbone, some smooth oaky flavors, crisp hop finish. It's clean, it's crisp yet smooth, possibly the best of the ones at the festival? Hard to say, but overall, great beer.
Oct 07, 2024Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania
4.12/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
on draft an Augustiner bar in Innsbruck. Half liter glass
clear, light golden in color, foamy white head. aroma and taste is well balanced - crackery malt and light floral hops. thin to medium bodied.
Sep 16, 2024clear, light golden in color, foamy white head. aroma and taste is well balanced - crackery malt and light floral hops. thin to medium bodied.
Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
3.69/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I tried several 0.5L steins of this beer off the tapper at Augustiner restaurant near the Brandenburg gate in Berlin. It poured a clear golden with white head that eventually dissipated and did not leave much lace. The scent had grain and malt notes. The taste was nicely balanced an easy to drink with grain presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a good beer.
Oct 02, 2022Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.43/5 rDev +10.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +10.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Augustiner-Bräu “Oktoberfest Bier”
,5l brown glass bottle coded “Mindestens haltbar bis Ende: 02.22 L1311121 P”. Sampled on 04.10.21.
€1,22 @ Horst Lehmann Getränke GmbH, Berlin, DE
Notes via stream of consciousness: It’s poured a clear golden colored body beneath a finger’s width of dense white foam. The head held well but slowly dropped to a thin but solid surface covering, and left solid sheets of lacing about the glass. The aroma is clean and straightforward with grainy/grassy malt with just a hint of floral hops. The flavor follows. It’s clean, lightly sweetish, and bready/doughy with touches of grass, flowers, and light spice. There’s also a very light, underlying, apple-like fruitiness. The bitterness is moderate and just balancing, and along with the alcohol that’s there (6.3% although you don’t notice it), it finishes mainly dry and refreshing. In the mouth it’s medium bodied and just slightly dextrinous. As is almost always the case with German beers, the carbonation is very-fine bubbled, and seemingly natural which leaves it gently crisp upfront and then smooth once warmed. I’m in love with these Weisn’ biers, and although my favorite is probably from Paulaner (it has a little more hops), this one is great as well. I think that we really need to have two style designations now as this is clearly not what most people expect from an “Oktoberfest” bier, and yet this is what everyone is actually drinking in the tents! And this is just a side-note, but damn, I love these Germans and their beer culture - a half liter bottle of this for €1,22 is an incredible deal. After converting the current Euro to American dollars, and based simply on fluid ounces, that would make a standard American case of this beer (without the extra shipping and everything) cost a whopping $24.19! Wow!
Review #7,515
Oct 04, 2021,5l brown glass bottle coded “Mindestens haltbar bis Ende: 02.22 L1311121 P”. Sampled on 04.10.21.
€1,22 @ Horst Lehmann Getränke GmbH, Berlin, DE
Notes via stream of consciousness: It’s poured a clear golden colored body beneath a finger’s width of dense white foam. The head held well but slowly dropped to a thin but solid surface covering, and left solid sheets of lacing about the glass. The aroma is clean and straightforward with grainy/grassy malt with just a hint of floral hops. The flavor follows. It’s clean, lightly sweetish, and bready/doughy with touches of grass, flowers, and light spice. There’s also a very light, underlying, apple-like fruitiness. The bitterness is moderate and just balancing, and along with the alcohol that’s there (6.3% although you don’t notice it), it finishes mainly dry and refreshing. In the mouth it’s medium bodied and just slightly dextrinous. As is almost always the case with German beers, the carbonation is very-fine bubbled, and seemingly natural which leaves it gently crisp upfront and then smooth once warmed. I’m in love with these Weisn’ biers, and although my favorite is probably from Paulaner (it has a little more hops), this one is great as well. I think that we really need to have two style designations now as this is clearly not what most people expect from an “Oktoberfest” bier, and yet this is what everyone is actually drinking in the tents! And this is just a side-note, but damn, I love these Germans and their beer culture - a half liter bottle of this for €1,22 is an incredible deal. After converting the current Euro to American dollars, and based simply on fluid ounces, that would make a standard American case of this beer (without the extra shipping and everything) cost a whopping $24.19! Wow!
Review #7,515
Reviewed by misteil from Ireland
3.55/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
look: two finger white head which dissipates quick enough to a thin layer of bubbles, lot of lacing, beer is a clear golden colour with lots of fast moving carbonation within the beer.
smell: smells alright, not much, all malt, bready, biscuity, grassy, lightly sweet, caramel, a little floral, alright.
taste: not bad, nice malt flavour, bordering on rich, biscuity, white bread, a hint of unami flavour, grassy, lightly to moderately sweet, a little metallic on the finish, malt flavours linger, it’s ok.
feel: medium bodied, medium carbonation, really drinkable, crushable, crisp, smooth, refreshing, what you want a lager to be.
overall: standard stuff really, expected a little more to be honest, drinkable beer though.
Oct 18, 2020smell: smells alright, not much, all malt, bready, biscuity, grassy, lightly sweet, caramel, a little floral, alright.
taste: not bad, nice malt flavour, bordering on rich, biscuity, white bread, a hint of unami flavour, grassy, lightly to moderately sweet, a little metallic on the finish, malt flavours linger, it’s ok.
feel: medium bodied, medium carbonation, really drinkable, crushable, crisp, smooth, refreshing, what you want a lager to be.
overall: standard stuff really, expected a little more to be honest, drinkable beer though.
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