Spaten Oktoberfestbier

This is the German version of the beer, described by Jackson in the 2000 Pocket Beer Book as "much paler (than Oktoberfest-Marzen in the US), golden, albeit still with a creamy aroma and pleasant malt accent."

702 reviews

München, Germany

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3.5 Dufter af tysk øl, men smager som en lækker øl du får på en restaurant i sydlige himmelstrøg, kan anbefales.

0.7 50 cl bottle served in ABK weizen. A clear pale golden pour, high carbonation but virtually no head: just a moment's off-white foam, and it's gone. Aroma is faulty: I even checked the BB just in case -but nope, everything was (so it seemed) okay. But faulty, funky, stinky it was. Esters galore, dust, wet cardboard... You name it. Terrible stank. Mouth is simple, fizzy and slightly sweet; watery, dull, boring. Then comes the aftertaste, and you get your esters and friends back again. This one's a no-no.

2.0 Corn and malt. Clear golden color with medium sized white head. Big corn and honey taste. Awful. Drank past best before date.

3.0 Bottle from Super Brugsen Juelsminde @ Home. Pours clear yellow with a white head. Aroma of malt, white bread, hay. Flavor is very sweet, malty, white bread, light honey, hay. Thin to medium body, average to lively carbonation, sweet finish. Easy going. 161121

3.0 Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from the Hereford Beer House. Pours clear yellow with a foamy, pure white head. Sugary sweet, some simple biscuits, white bread, cereal. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, almost cloying, more basic cereal and white bread. Really a bit to sweet and basic overall.

3.4 Jeudi 21 octobre 2021. Bouteille de 50cL. 5.9%. Achat (La Minute Blonde", Bressuire (79), FR). Après une sortie course à pied d'1h avec le club. Bière blonde brillante translucide avec une mousse blanche moyenne ; rétention moyenne. Légèrement herbeux, grain, notes de foin. Sécheresse moyenne rafraîchissante, note amère, note douce ; "pintable" pour sûr ! Aérien en bouche, texture fine, moyennement gazeux, final sec rafraîchissant céréalier durable. Rien de transcendant mais plutôt efficace, bon !

2.6 Aroma: Malt, sweet fruits and grassy. Flavour: Malty and fruity sweet. Aftertaste is very sweet. Colour: Amber with a white head. From: Bottle @ Super Brugsen Sæby.

2.4 Etwas blass, leicht bitter

4.1 Huge taste difference over standard bland Spaten. Makes me think to try Spaten again. Perfect draft.

2.3 zapach nijaki, lekko słodowy, umiarkowana goryczka, jasne i nijakie. Można wypić

3.2 Pours golden body with white lace top. Aroma has grassy cereal note with background of honeyed bread. Taste is medium sweet to bitter with the grainy quality more evident. Texture is medium bodied smooth texture average carbonation and a soft bitter finish

3.7 Im Glas zeigt sich ein relativ helles Goldgelb mit sehr aktiver feiner Perlage. Die weiße feinporige Schaumkrone wirkt leicht wässerig bis flaumig und hält relativ gut. Der Duft besticht durch die sehr süßliche, leicht staubig-spelzige bis hefige Aromatik. Die florale Note erinnert ein wenig an Akazienhonig. Sehr schön! Die angenehme Spritzigkeit und Frische, gepaart mit einer süßlich-herben Note im Antrunk macht bereits einen sehr voluminösen Eindruck. Am Gaumen kommt die kräftige Aromatik dann aber richtig zur Geltung. Die kräftige Würze dominiert. Dazu geben die fruchtig-florale Süße, welche mit den floralen bis kräuterartigen Hopfennoten gut harmoniert, ein durchaus gutes Bild ab. Der relativ hohe Alkoholgehalt klingt dabei aber bereits leicht an. Die Haptik wirkt trotz der relativ kräftigen Rezenz eher weich und sehr angenehm. Daraus resultiert eine ganz gute Süffigkeit. Im Abgang löst sich die Rezenz langsam auf und bietet viel Platz für die süßliche, getreidige und würzige Malzaromatik. Erst sehr spät wirkt auch eine fast schon subtile Herbe nach.

2.8 Light sweet aroma of hay. Clear pale golden with a low long lasting white head. Medium sweet taste. Medium body, creamy texture & soft carbonation.

3.3 Keg at 7000 Jars of Beer, Kingston. Clear mid golden. Big lager malt and dried fruit nose. Soft, moderately sweet and easy drinking.

3.4 Bottle at home, from HOTM online, 02/10/21. Clear golden with a well presented lasting white head. Nose is pale malts, grass, cereals, toasted grains, light breads, subtle herb. Taste comprises bready and pale malts, grains, herb, lemon rind, straw, almond. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid clean drinking affair.

2.3 Clear pale golden with a moderate white head. Good lacing until the foam is gone. Aroma: Malts - hay, grains, a hint of honey. Also some herbal hops. Mouth: Good balance of sweet and bitter. Medium body, watery texture. Essentially a good lager, nothing exiting.

2.5 Vyrazne oktoberove, mic mi to nehovori

3.5 Bottle. Pours clear gold with white. Malty on nose. Spicy, malty taste, sweetish, bit sharp carbonation. Well rounded though. Good.

4.3 Very balanced and light in both taste and colour, I love how well rounded this pure tasting beer is.

3.2 bottle @ beerka (budapest) golden colour, normal body, average carbonated, white head, malty, hoppy, lightly spiced, smooth bittersweet, easy to drink

3.3 Bouteille 50cl couleur blonde dorée mousse blanche goût céréales, un peu ferreux, douce et facile à boire, houblon

3.7 Old rating - 500ml bottle, pours golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, biscuit, bread, grass, grain & malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish

2.3 June 2021 - glorious sunny weekend, just back from a weekend at Barleycorn Inn, now watching the opening matches of Euro 2020 ( delayed a year due to Covid). Litre bottle of Octoberfestbier filled from a near date keg by lowcostbeers. I quite fancy going to Octoberfest, though I'm not sure how many litres of this sweetish, slightly fat (greasy? grainy?) pale lager I could drink. But, on the whole it's harmless stuff. Apart from the strength. [2.3]

3.0 Solid fest bier. Does the trick

2.8 500 ml bottle. Pours clear golden colour with white head. Aroma: maltiness, wet grain. The taste is sweet, malty, with marked bitterness

4.0 Aparte moeilijk te omschrijven smaak. Kan niet iedereen appreciëren

2.5 Classica märzen da Oktoberfest: il colore è giallo oro limpido con una schiuma fine e poco persistente. Il profumo è ovviamente caratterizzato dai malti, al palato si presenta dolciastra e delicata con un retrogusto morbido e gradevole, infine il corpo è leggero.

3.4 50 cl bottle poured into a Dimpled mug. Clear golden colour with a thin white head. Sweet aroma with bread, grasses, pale malts and fruits. Taste is sweet. Medium bodied. Drying fruity finish with grasses and a perfumed notes. Nice and old school.

3.9 Bottle from Hops and Crafts Exeter. best before July 2023(so pretty fresh& much better for it!)Pours lemon/ light gold with a white head . Aroma of lemon, bread ,sweet hay, bread , rich tea biscuit, spicy pepper .Taste of more hay , bread biscuit, tea, pepper & lemon . Light bodied with a smooth nicely carbonated mouthfeel. The finish is nicely dry and bittersweet with more spicy pepper hay , bread , biscuit, & citrus.

2.9 Bottle at home, Oktoberfest. Clear golden coloured. Biscuit malts, grassy hops, some sweetness. Soft and smooth. Easy drinkable.