Summit Oktoberfest
Brewed in the Märzen style, Summit Oktoberfest brings alive the famous European Fall celebrations. Summit Oktoberfest has a reddish-bronze color, a rich malty aroma and a satisfying smooth finish.
3.2
360 reviews
St. Paul, United States
Community reviews
Nice cloudy orange, small white head, no lacing. Aroma is fresh bread. Flavor is bread and Carmel. Decent beer.
December 4, 2015 - bottle at a company event. Best option available and surprised I had not yet rated. Nice flavor and easy to drink.
12 oz. bottle from a friend’s house. Pours a mostly clear orange with a small off-white head and some visible carbonation bubbles. Notes of caramel and toasted malts, spiced cracker, faint fruit, sugars, straw, and grass. Light-medium bodied, with medium carbonation and a crisp, malty mouthfeel. Well-executed Oktoberfest.
Tap - fair size foamy head, nice medium copper color, sweet malty aroma and flavor, mild nut notes, not bad overall
Keg. Amber pour with a small head. Nose is fairly toasty, nutty. Toasted bread. Light caramel. Mellow chocolate malt accents. Taste is similar. Bready and sweet. Toasted grain. A touch syrupy. Medium body, soft carb.
bottle. Amber with one finger head. Medium body with caramel and toffee, light herbal notes. Mild hop bitterness. Pretty solid for the style.
On draft at Ike’s on Summit at the MSP airport. Pours a clear amber with an off white head. Malty nose. Nutty flavors with some sweet caramel notes. Clean smooth finish.
12oz can pours a clear bright amber/orange with a medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee malts with a light spice. Light caramel and toffee malt, simple and clean.
Solid all around Oktoberfest. Nice amber lager one of the better ones out there.
Dark amber pour with a light tan head. Aroma is malt. Taste is caramel malt, light sweetness. OK beer.
12 ounce can into dimpled mug, best before 1/3/2015. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep orange/copper color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Slight earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity and robustness of dark/bready malt and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavor with no overly estery notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice oktoberfest style. All around good robustness, balance, and complexity of dark/bready malt and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Bottle at Porch Nite thanks to Raith. Pours amber with a thin off white head. Aroma is slight caramel and some nuttiness. Flavor follows. Caramel Smooth. Decent beer.
Can - Has a light amber color with a small head. Light earthy hops and grass. Medium body. Light sweet finish but slightly metallic.
Bottle. Slightly sweet aroma. Caramel colored, and cloudy. Off white head, slowly dissipates. Slightly sweet flavor, with a malty taste. Maybe a bit too sweet for style, but I like it. Medium bodied. Overall, a good Oktoberfest.
Can - Pours a reddish brown with a fairly big, creamy head. Aromas of caramel, malts and some sweetness. Flavor is sweet caramel, maybe too sweet with a slight astringent finish.
Nice ofest... Smooth and velvety. I like how there is such a variety in every beer style and how every beer in style isn't the same. I like it. Another good summit beer. Definitely not a 1. Crazy kids and their ones...
Taste and smell of chewed bubblegum.Worse than Great Western Gold beer from Canada.Summits worst Oktoberfest in a decade.
12 oz. bottle from Cash Wise in Watford City. Appearance: less than finger of white head, copper color, clear, good lacing. Aroma: caramel, floral hops, notes of alcohol on exhale. Palate: medium body, soft-moderate carbonation, light sticky texture. Taste: sweet malty caramel, into a floral hops touch a the end, mostly just taste, but a slight bitterness as well. Overall, good balance of malty sweet with the hops in general, but drinkablility is slightly off and for the style, the hops are too pronounced.
12oz bottle from Canal’s Rio Grande. Poured an okay looking clear orange/amber with a smaller foamy off white head. Aroma/flavor is malty with a slight spice touch, wet nut shells, wet bread and amber malts. Medium body with stronger carbonation and a quicker finish on the aftertaste. Meh, not that good.
Tasted this in the store and was much more like I expected for octoberfest. Beer I bought was much different. Seemed to be much hop character and less balanced
Solid oktoberfest....not my normal choice of style but this one was very tasty.........
Can. Orange with a medium white head. Malty, under ripe banana, yeast and a little alcohol. Light sweetness. Medium body with a foamy feel.
Golden to copper pour small white head. Mostly a sweet style grains and caramel a bit of a gritty post swallow texture.
Decent for the style but not my fav.
Clear dark amber with moderate carbonation. Tall slightly off-white bubbly head, receding casually. Aroma is nice... fruits, perhaps a bit of caramel. Taste is slightly spicy fruit with a solid malt / bread backbone. Not too sweet. Moderate-to-substantial feel. There is a very slight bittering in the finish that fades quickly. Very slight presence of alcohol in the aftertaste.
Transfer from BA review on 9-19-13-
Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance – The beer is served an orange-amber color with a small but persistent white head. Over time the head slowly fades, leaving almost no lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is light overall, but has notes of caramel sweetness and a bit of a roasted smell. Other than that there is a very light smell of some lighter fruits.
Taste – The taste begins sweet and maintains that profile throughout the taste. Upfront there is a good deal of caramel sweetness with a small amount of a roasted malt taste. As the flavor advances the a bready flavor increases with some spice joining the flavor as well. While the caramel remains the same strength throughout, the overall sweetness is augmented as the taste moves to the end as flavors of some apple and pear as well as some flavors of brown sugar come to the tongue. In the end a little bit of a herbal flavor combines with the rest, with the mix of flavors leaving a quite sweet, but overall rather pleasant and slightly roasted and malty flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the medium to slightly thicker side with a carbonation level that is rather average overall. Both are quite appropriate for the style and suit well the sweet, roasted/malty and spiced flavors of the brew.
Overall – An Oktoberfest that is on the slightly sweeter side with not much hop influence, but a nice easy drinking feel overall. A pleasant and easy drinker.
12 oz can. Nose deeply malty, dough with a touch of cracker, dark and Munich-y with some pump character. Rich, deep orange with medium carbonation and a layered, dense beige head. Taste semi-sweet with a large bread component, superbly malty (really turned up to ’11’!) with excellent complexity, there’s dough with some latent spice, hops are fresh and grassy and citric but kept short. Alcohol supremely well-hidden; clean, fresh medium body, fuller at times, juicy at others. Exemplary rendition with just enough American to throw off the shackles of tradition.
bottle into glass, dark red pou with thin off white head, aroma is fruit, and malt, im not the biggest marzen fan, but this one is pretty decent, smooth, easy driniing
Heavy malted pour of moderate amber with light off white head. Nose is malted and sweet, moderate nuttiness. Flavor follows. It’s nothing spectacular but it’s nothing bad.
Bottle. Clear deep amber color, medium off tan head. Aroma of caramel biscuit. Taste is sweet malty caramel. Not bad.
Amber colored with white head. Earthy, damp aroma with hints of sweetness, toffee, and nuts and faint floral hops. Smooth, sweet and rich up front with some lingering floral hops. Mediumish body. Medium carbonation. A solid Oktoberfest.