Mild autumnal lager merges sweet caramel-mocha malting with spicy hop fizz, spritzy grape esters, zesty citric twist, vegetal gourd restraint, and casual rye bread suggestion. Dewy earthiness caresses backend. On tap 2011, delicate leafy foliage and wispy tea-like sedation gained brisk orange fruiting.
Tag Archives: oktoberfest
(PRIVAT) JUBEL OKTOBERFEST
WACHUSETT OCTOBERFEST
Fruited coppery autumnal merriment situates zesty red apple, purple grape, and brown pear ripeness atop redolent pumpkin-spiced floral hops to buttery biscuit-y malt spine. Comfy toasted barley, cracked wheat, and dry tobacco efficacy fortifies peach-y pineapple sweetness and caressing almondine dash.
(CASCO BAY) CARRABASSETT HARVEST ALE
IPSWICH HARVEST ALE
RAMAPO VALLEY OCTOBERFEST LAGER
WEIHENSTEPHANER FESTBIER
CASCO BAY OKTOBERFEST
’99 tasting: Cordial vegetative autumnal plies dried barley and husked wheat bittering above clementine orange souring as fresh cut grass, hay, and cowhide consume nose. A chummy ‘ur-Marzen’ Munich lager. ’05 tasting: Antiseptic pumpkin-spiced ruby red grapefruit-sweetened mocha-tinged mediocrity accrues nasty backend acidity.
JERSEY HARVEST ALE
RED HOOK LATE HARVEST AUTUMN ALE
WEYERBACHER AUTUMN FEST ALE
CROOKED RIVER PUMPKIN HARVEST ALE
Aromatic pumpkin pie sweetness gathers bitter-hopped gourd essence punctuated by cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Sharper and richer than most pumpkin ales, though sweeter honeyed spicing would be welcome.







