Goose Island Oktoberfest (AB-InBev Recipe)
Goose Oktoberfest is brimming with notes of toasted malt and freshly baked rye bread. This light-bodied German lager is clean and crisp with a fine noble hop character and mild earthy bitterness that is the hallmark of Hallertau hops. Raise a few steins of Goose Oktoberfest this fall and celebrate this time-honored tradition. Prost!
This is the new recipe bottled by AB-InBev. Old entries for the earlier bottled and Brewpub version are located here: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/goose-island-oktoberfest-brewpub-recipe/6808/
This is the new recipe bottled by AB-InBev. Old entries for the earlier bottled and Brewpub version are located here: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/goose-island-oktoberfest-brewpub-recipe/6808/
3.3
230 reviews
Chicago, United States
Community reviews
Bottle shared. Clear light amber with small beige head. Caramel, bready, soft dried fruits, light bitter hops, light malts and a touch of wood. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with a bit oily feel.
Bottle. Caramel malt aroma with notes of toffee, toasted malt and some dried fruit. Pours clear amber colored with a thin off white head that has good retention and lacing. Starts with toffee and toasted malt flavors. Finishes smooth and refreshing with caramel and dried fruit sweetness. Pretty good Oktoberfest.
Amber with fast fading head and light aroma of toasted malt. A bit thin and watery with just a mild flavor of caramel and roasted malt. Not bad and very chuggable but not the best Oktoberfest brew out there. Ratebeer as this as 6.4% but guess there was another recipe change cause mine is 5.7%. Bet the 6.4% was better than this one.
2018 version, which clocks in at 5.7% ABV. Pours clear copper with extra ruby tint and a two finger, light tan head. Aroma is caramel and dried fruit with some light roast. Taste is plum and light caramel, moving to light roast. Finish is roast. A good Marzen.
If I had to drink only one ale(or lager), this would be the one.
Wait for it every year since it came out.
Interesting... I had saved a bottle from 2016.
Opened it to compare. Excellent.
Light aroma of bread malt. Metallic taste and watery palate are the first thing I notice; finish is ok with some spice and toasted malt. Lacks the character of better Oktos.
Oktoberfests can be hit or miss not that I am exactly particular. It is just that the last couple have been underwhelming. Goose Island? Let us try. I lift the 12 oz bottle into my New Belgium Fireman 4 shaker, pour most, not all. A heroic, light tan head resting on a orange-amber body, good show. The nose gives malt, caramel, a light herbal. A payoff sip, grainy, malty, a small toffee sweetness. Better than most, being not my favorite style is a detriment I guess.
Bottle: Bright amber, large frothy khaki head, nice lacing. Sweet toasted malt nose, pale breadiness, touch of sweetness. Touch of biscuit, touch of nutiness, very clean. Almost approaching Eliot Ness like quality. Touch more sweetness and we'd probably have it. I like this in its not mealy at all, or overly bready, especially in that whole wheat arena. Moderate to full body. Very smooth. Nice malty finish, no cereal, a touch of nuttiness, biscuit, with pale breadiness. Sweeter than others, which is nice. Nice example!
Pours amber orange, head quickly disappears. Very fine fizz feel in mouth, bubbles not visible in glass. Faint aroma, caramel hints. Taste rather sour, some spiciness. Nothing exceptional, in direction of an Oktoberfest beer, but not really there. OK
Pours brownish amber with a small white head. Aroma is earthy, toffee, caramel and some spiciness. Taste is sweet with some spicy undertones. Medium bodied, smooth and overall a decent brew for game at MetLife.
Sweet and malty. Light toffee and apricot notes as the Brewer claims. Smooth with no hop bitterness at all. A spicy dry finish with notes of toast. Interesting. Not a standard Oktoberfest but I liked it
September 2015
On tap at Trio. Clear amber with a thin beige head. Malty aromas. Caramel, malt, toasty bread flavors. Smooth texture. Sweet caramel finish.
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This toffee and burnt sugar aromatic beer is malty and a little bitter but the notes of apricot definitely give it an interesting taste. The high level of the alcohol content (6.4%) makes it a good beer to be paired with either meatballs, chili or some traditional German food.
Sweet , malty , toffee tones. No hops or bitterness at all. From a beer hawk mystery case. On reflection , not as good as my first bottle.
Bottle. Darker orange color. Very clear. Toasted notes in the aroma. Bready nose. No hops. Definitely sweet; candied. Malty flavor. Finish fades quickly. Slight fruitiness. Not a bad beer, if only slightly out of style.
Bottle, 355ml. Clear sparkling maple, frothy tan head. Metallic, grainy aromas. Medium bodied, fizzy carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet, lightly bitter. Sweet roasted and toffee flavors into a rustic, sticky finish.
This was a very sweet beer and, dare I say it, a bit one dimensional. I felt that the caramel was too strong and overpowered everything else.
Solid tasty brew. Nothing offensive, typical Carmel sweet taste for an Oktoberfest. Tastes sweeter than it smells.
12oz bottle from Beerhawk, and poured into a snifter on 29-Dec-2016. Clear reddish brown in colour with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma idk sweet - biscuit malt and toffee. Medium body and carbonation. Taste is sweet and malty. Caramel, spices, hops, bread and dark fruit. Light, drinkable but on the sweet side.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a amber/copper color with a thin beige head that last. Taste is of sweet malt, honey, caramel, bread and dark fruit. Sweet malt aroma. Has a decent body. Overall, okay. Too sweet and fruit forward for me.
12oz bottle pours orange with medium head sweet malty aroma taste was the same very drinkable
From the bottle. Light malt aroma with hints of fruit. Copper color with a decent, cream colored head. Malt sweetness is prevalent, hops come later and linger. Sugary aftertaste.
Where and how: tasting @ VB 12 oz
Aroma: nutty, woody, fairly malty approach. Some dryness on edges. Slight feel of citrus. Lacking depth.
Appearance :
Top: medium smaller top, short lived.
Frothy beige head stayed well on a translucent auburn body.
Malty & dark fruit aroma.
Medium bodied, lots of carbonation. Quite smooth though.
Malt, plum, toffee, brown sugar slightly hoppy on the back.
Slightly yeasty and beany malt and dried leaves. Clear copper, medium yellow head. Honey, dried leaves, and pecans. Medium body easy carbonation. A little too sweet, but true to style.
Draft. Pours Amber with an off white head. Sweet toffee malts, lighter toasted bready notes, and faint bitterness. Fine.
Clear light garnet. Jagged collar of eggshell foam. Sloppy aroma of caramel chews, prune, brown sugar, rock candy, toasted bread, candy corn, and apple juice. Edgy, pointy and sharp carbonation. Oppressively sweet, initially, with assertive plum notes colliding with brawny wet bread. No malt detail or vividness is able to overcome the sugar-laden body. Negligible hop zip, with merely a trace of floral and licorice notes. Apple juice contributes additional flabbiness to the pervasive sugars, as notes of wet paper continue to speak to the careless malt extraction. Notes of candy corn testify to the dirty fermentation. Wet, limp and sugary-medicinal finish is comprised of wet toasted bread and raisin. Another slapdash stab at a märzen from an American brewery, that’s ultimately way too underattenuated to enjoy. Very generic and sloppily assembled.
Straight up American style Oktoberfest. Caramel, light bodied and a touch of bitterness.
12 oz bottle from Kroger. Pours a clear dark amber color with a medium sized off white head. The aroma and flavor have toasted malts, caramel, some general fruit, could be the apricots, biscuity, some mild earthy bitterness, pretty average.