Anna Festbier
Brauerei Josef Greif

Anna FestbierAnna Festbier
Beer Geek Stats
From:
Brauerei Josef Greif
 
Germany
Style:
Festbier / Wiesnbier
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
4.08 | pDev: 5.64%
Reviews:
5
Ratings:
8
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 03, 2023
Added:
Sep 18, 2008
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  1
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by drmeto from Germany

3.75/5  rDev -8.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
L:
-pours a clear amber with a medium,foamy,off-white head
-medium-to-high carbonation visible
S:
-malty,spicy,yeasty,plums,rose hip,caramel
T:
-caramel,spicy,lightly syrupy,lightly bready with a hoppy finish
F:
-medium carbonation
-light-to-medium body
-light alcohol noticeable
O:
A really good old-style Märzen
Oct 03, 2023
 
Rated: 4.4 by GedH from England

Jun 30, 2023
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.78/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From the half liter bottle, it pours a clear amber color with a very nice off-white head that slowly diminishes. The nose gets a dose of caramel malts and a touch of hops. The mouth gets a nice malty brew with notes of caramel.
Oct 05, 2022
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Reviewed by aleigator from Germany

3.99/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a crystal clear amber color with a bigger, fine pored head atop.

Aromas are defined by a coppery toffee and matured, dried herbs interplay, topped off by a note of melting, sweet caramel.

The beer’s mouthfeel turns out to be quite refreshing with a bubbly effervescence to it, while remaining light bodied throughout.

Tastes of blood pudding, old kitchen herbs and oven warm bread among earthy sweet toffee. Develops an intriguing, lasting grain rusticness, together with a soft caramel undertone, as well as dusty hay. Finishes heavy on the malts with a prevailing hop dryness among an aqueous softness.

In comparison to the Annafest Hausbräu version I think I like this a little less, since the Hausbräu is not only well balanced, but also manages to unfold a unique richness of flavors, while this is pretty streamlined and foreseeable.
Nov 14, 2021
 
Rated: 4.21 by Hopfenpeter from Maryland

Jan 26, 2015
 
Rated: 4.25 by BirdsandHops from Oregon

Aug 30, 2012
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Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England

4/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500ml brown bottle, taken at The Cask Pub and Kitchen, London.

Liked the look of this beer, good amber almost copper in colour, clear and clean: the off-white head full and lasting (I poured it vigorously myself).

The smell was of light flowery hops and malty molasses, each mild and yet powerful, those aromas stayed throughout the pint.

More malts than hops in the taste, not the sweeter malts, bread and biscuit compared to caramel and toffee flavours which were there, but as a secondary feel. The hops held it together nicely coming towards the end of the mouthfeel to give a semi-bitter finish.

Would take this over almost any Pilsner/Lager/Helles I know.
Nov 04, 2011
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Reviewed by TKempe from Netherlands

4.29/5  rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Regular 0.5L bottle with a scenery shown on the label in which J. Greif's beer cellar is opposing a beer tent and many rows of benches, somewhere out in the woods.

A deep amber liquid and a tiny off-white head fill up the glass, plenty of lace. Unfortunately the beer starts looking a bit dull halfway through the first glass.

The nose is filled with a grainy and sweet aroma of malt that is slightly toasted as well. Hop presence is minimal, as is a faint forrest-like impression. A nicely balanced, not too sweet aroma (almost that of a Bock).

The flavour brings out more nuances. It combines a sweet and toasty malt characteristic with a strong accent on the hops. A more salty, slightly liquorice-like note can be found also. It finishes rather clean in a bitter fashion.

Carbonation is a bit low, giving a soft mouthfeel to the beer's medium body.

A terrific beer, very friendly and quite complex.
Sep 18, 2008
Anna Festbier from Brauerei Josef Greif
Beer rating: 4.08 out of 5 with 8 ratings