Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen - Privatbrauerei Franz Inselkammer KG / Brauerei Aying

damndirtyape

Ohio

4/5  rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

500mL bottle poured into a dimpled mug. No date on bottle.

Appearance: Crystal clear amber to coppery orange beer with lots of bubbles coming up through the beer. Poured a 1/2" light tan-hint of orange foam which died down to a 1/16" thick foam across the top. Islands and sheets of lacing noted, but they had a tendency to slide back down the glass into the beer.

Smell: Lovely malt forward beer. Plenty of caramel malt and just a hint of some floral and earthy hops in there.

Taste: Definitely a better beer when fully warmed up. There is a bit of a metallic taste at the beginning when the beer is first poured but that goes away once the beer warms up. Initial malt flavor is caramel and biscuity, moving quickly into a earthy bitterness from the hops. Finish is clean - some lingering hop bitterness but it fades nicely away to leave a clean palate for the next drink. Not deep or amazing in flavor complexity, but certainly well balanced.

Mouthfeel: Good carbonation, but it's there and off the tongue very quickly. A bit chewy but in a good way.

Overall / Drinkability: A solidly good Marzen beer. I suspect this would be much better with food but by itself it's quite nice. Definitely better when warm than cold, but hey, that's on purpose isn't it?

Serving type: bottle

08-26-2011 23:44:46 | More by damndirtyape

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