Michelob Marzen
This beer is based on an original recipe that Adolphus Busch brought with him when he came to America. This Marzenbeir has a malty aroma and an amber-red color. Traditionally brewed for the Octoberfest [sp] season, this 100% malt beer utilizes only 4 ingredients: malt, yeast, hops and water.
2.4
344 reviews
St. Louis, United States
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Michelob Marzen has a thick, off-white head and a clear, copper appearance. Carbonation is medium. The aroma is almost neutral, and the taste is very mild and light with some slight hop spiciness. Mouth-feel is light and watery, and Michelob Marzen finishes refreshing. This is not a particularly exciting beer, but it is enjoyable enough.
RJT
Bottle. Pours a nice clear amber with beige head. Aroma has a nice malty profile with hints of spice and caramel. Flavor is very much the same and well balanced. Mouth feel is light-medium body with high carbonation. Overall, a very enjoyable brew!
Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Medium amber, clear brew with one finger of head that immediately disappears. Aroma of light malts, maybe a hint of wet paper or cardboard. Flavor is nice but not exciting - light malts with a dry lightly hopped finish. Palate is rather thin - on par with many lagers. A competent brew and above average at that.
Drank in the morning with frostyone and I’m not really sure why or where they came from. amber pour and clear. fading head. nose bland and sulphurous light malts. Taste is bland like the nose dry, easy drinking. Not much to it.
Good taste for low end beer. Good Oktoberfest but there are better just not sure if they are as good a value.
I got this bottle as a single, but it was in a cooler. I suspect it’s from last Fall. Anyhow, It’s a good looking light amber color beer with a foamy white head and good carbonation. The flavor is malty and sweet. Mouthfeel may be on the light side, but this marzen is right up there with some of the German ones I have had. This beer is much better than the score it has gotten.
Poured into a glass mug. Pours a small thin head that disolves quickly. No lacing. Color is nice straw/dark orange.
Smell is of dry malts and grain. Taste is of very sweet, dry malts. There is also a hint of floral hops.
Mouthfeel is bitter, but smooth. Carbonation level is good.
Overall, not one of my favorites for the style, but it was cheap so not to bad.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-18-2008 03:51:33
Nice malty aroma and taste after pouring. Then a sickly sweet aftertaste. The head actually last after the first sip. Nice lace.
12 oz. Clear copper-brown with a small ring of bubbles. Mild malt aroma of toffee, a touch of tart apple, and a hint of dry grass. Flavor is lightly sour caramel, toasted pecan, earthy leaf, and a hint of apple-raisin liqueur. Light-medium body is smoothly carbonated, a tad too watery, but has a nice little tongue tingle. Well balanced and drinkable.
Not bad for one of the majors. It was malty which you would expect from the style but, not a mass produced product. I can see it being something I would pick up from time to time.
Malty and amber colored, just as advertised! I like the carbonation in this one, it is about perfect. I’m not a big fan of malty beers, but this one is not overpowering. There is a generous amount of hops. I bought this 12-pack on sale for $4.99. Not bad for the money, though I don’t think I’d buy it at the regular price. There is a bit of sourness in the aroma, but maybe that is just a reflection of my dislike for the malty beer style.
Variety pack bottle. Aroma was mild, hoppy and slightly floral. Great pour, and the head stayed thick and present for a long time. Flavors were roasty, with cereal and grain dominant. Hopps were present in the flavor. Pleasant to the palate. I loved the quality of this beer, which for the price, is just fantastic. I am not afraid to rate this beer higher in the overall category. Its not anywhere near the most flavorful marzen I have had, but still, for the value, I will buy this again.
Bottle; poured a clear amber color with a frothy white head. Aroma of wet bread, grain and a bit of off fruit. Flavor was just really bland; not overtly offputting, but very bland even for the style. Not any sweetness or caramel notes. Dry. Not very good.
From the 12 fl. oz. bottle marked 09240-DEO6. The pour is a rich amber-copper with a thin head. The aroma is slightly malted and has a hint of caramel in there. But it is somewhat appetizing. Medium mouthfeel. The taste is balanced with malts, caramel, and bitter hops. Overall it is mildly enjoyable.
Bottle. I didn’t want ti rate this one that high, but, yea, it deserved it. Nice amber color, Tasty marzen malt flovor. Good stuff.
Typical Marzen in appearance, dark copper body with with a whitish creamy head. A very pronounced metallic aroma. Tasted better than it smelled. Not bad for a mass-produced American Octoberfest. I enjoyed it.
Pours copper with a white head.
Aroma is caramel malts a hint of ginger and some well water smell. Flavor is Malty and caramel some fruit and metallic. Dry finish
Dark orange-brown, weak whitish head. Aroma is caramel malts, mostly metal. Taste is better, sweet malts, caramel apples.
Bottle. Pours a copper body with a white head. Malty adjunct body rice, caramel and grain. A paper like flavor with some sweet malt hints. Weak hay dry sweetness and a bitter grainy metallic finish. Freaking not so good.
Looks like a normal Oktoberfest at the pour but it ends there. Aroma is pure yeast, and the flavor is watered down and not much different from any other mass produced lager. Glad I only bought a single.
Has a descent amber brown color. Aroma is basically just malts and slight hops. Taste is mainly malts. Nothing much of an aftertaste. A pretty weak one from Michelob.
An octfest attempt from a beer company I do not like. They are however striving for a better beer and I can totally respect that.
This needs more work.
Bottle. Somone heard I liked "craft beers" so they got me a Michelob Sampler 12-pack. It not like I didn’t appreciate the gesture, by they have seen what I normally drink (and I can assure you it is not Michelob). Pours a nice amber-red with a very thin white head. Aroma is a caramalized malt back bone with a light hop pressence. Notes of fall spices (nutmeg maybe) are there. On the palate, it is light and refreshing. The flavor brings out a bit of fruity character, but the malt is still there. Overall, it was alright. Not bad for a macro.
Reddish amber with a rocky off-white head. Fruity, caramel malt aroma. Light, clean with some grassy, spicy flavors. Not too bad, but kinda weak overall.
Not half bad for what it is. Copper with a tan head. Caramel and spice dominate the flavor and aroma with some earthy hints on the finish.
Nice pour, good color, good aroma, and a pretty good flavor. Malty sweetness is a little weak with a bitterness that is a bit too present for me, typical American hopped up Oktoberfest!
Clear, glassy light orange. No head, not much texture. Non-descript other than slight pub ale color. Watery-looking.
Slightly sweeter lager malt. If all-malt, not immediately apparent. Slightly sugary sweet and okay.
Some sweetish, biscuity pub malt. The slight sweetness of caramel/butterscotch is slight, balances the earthy malt.
Buttery but a little fizzy too. Solid, but a tad watery. Really average. Just like a lager with a hint of additional sweetness.
11/09/2007: The aroma of Michelob Marzen is floral with some toasted malts. It is also a touch sweet suggesting that there may be some caramel hiding in there as well. The beer is a clear, light amber color with a lumpty off-white head that provides some slight lacing. There is also a mild to moderate level of carbonation contained within the medium-light to medium body. The flavor is earthy and floral. It tastes a bit like creamy regular Michelob with some extra maltiness. It is smooth and mellow, but doesn’t really taste like and Oktoberfest. Maybe this bottle was slightly oxidized at this point?
12 fl. oz. bottle (Born On Date: 10AUG07). Rating #303 for this beer.
This is an easy drinking lawnmower beer. I didn’t think it was that bad. Had a decent crisp hoppy finish.
Pours a dark golden color with a thin white head. Aroma is heavy of sweet caramel notes, light apple fruitiness with a slightly corn. Flavor begins with a very sweet caramel beginning and moves into light pils note to finish. Not much density in the beer and a higher carbonation than normally found for the style. Overall you can tell its a macro attempt and not a very good one at that.