UPDATED: AUG 20, 2019 12 ounce bottle thanks to Wes. A burgundy like color with notes of malt and caramel. Some amber in taste.

12oz bottle pours a clear copper amber with some white head. Nose has malt, root veg, a little candy, yeast. Flavor is sweet, malt and dough, root veg. Finishes a bit sweet. Simple.

Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle, best November 23, 2018 from RobertDale poured into a glass. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, medium/light body, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt.

Bottle from the September DC RB Tasting. Poured a dark amber color with a small white head. Aroma was light toasted malts, roasted notes. Some grassy notes. Earthy notes.

On draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Tutu arima with sweet caramel flavors.

12floz bottle, BBD: 12.03.2017, $9 for a six-pack, nonic glass. Aroma: butterscotch-caramel. Appearance: dark amber (cherrywood), translucent, off-white head with good retention. Taste: biscuity and honey-caramel. Palate: Medium bodied, malty with a rather reserved sweetness. Overall: Clean and well composed. A fine U.S. brewed Octoberfest.

Taster at brewpub. Pours light brown with a white head. Leaves trace lacing in the glass. Solid malt notes on the nose. This beer seems to coat the tongue with a thin layer of maltiness. Finished clean. Not my favorite style but it’s very quaffable.

Draft @ Free State - clear copper with a white head. This might be the best Märzen I’ve ever had. Great ready malty sweetness, spicy bitterness, but not too much. Very nice!!

Reddish, mostly clear pour with somewhat lasting foam. Bread and malt in the nose with some richness, perhaps chocolately. Flavor follows, but the spice gives the finish some bitterness. Medium body, mild fizz.

Tap at Whole Foods, Omaha. Pours dark amber, fleeting off white head. Aroma was roasted malts, earthy, caramel. Taste was mild sweet, toasted malts, spicy finish.