UPDATED: JUL 25, 2021 Old rating - pint from tap, pours amber with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of fruits, spice & malt. Medium body. Dry light bitter finish

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2020 Keg at Gordon Biersch, San Jose, CA on 18/05/2008. Bigger malt nose on this, and slightly deeper golden. Mild herbal note in the finish.

UPDATED: FEB 9, 2020 On tap at the Navy Yards brewpub (Washington, DC). Amber body with a thin, off-white creamy head. Decent malty/hoppy aroma with sweet hints. Taste is similar to the aroma. Ends with a short bittersweet finish. Basic.

UPDATED: MAR 5, 2019 Decent all around beer. Second sample from Gordon, and finding them both very drinkable. One of the better semi-economy brewers. Grabbed a few different varieties that I haven't tried on clearance for 1/2 off. One of them is the Festive Ale/Oktoberfest, so curious to see how it differs from this. Light amber color, clear appearance. Smooth mouthfeel. Flavor is mostly caramel malt, but good hop finish. The clearance was because these bottles are almost a year old....but still taste sort of fresh....definitely not spoiled. Liked their maibock, liked this....eager to try the blonde and festive ale next.

UPDATED: FEB 15, 2019 Ehhh....nice pour, carmel with 2' white head, which looks great in glass, especially at an airport spot. Taste ok too but not the knockout it could be. Fine for a lager I guess.

UPDATED: JAN 8, 2019 nice malty aroma. amber and clear in color with great long lasting head. taste is richly malty

UPDATED: JAN 2, 2019 Drank over tap in restaurant Good oktoberfestbier with a beautiful amber color. Scent of malt is the first thing I noticed on this beer. Personally, I enjoyed this beer a lot. Not too much thinking in the drinking process, I just drank large chugs, muy bien.

Clear with a dark reddish auburn color with brown chestnut highlights, served with a nice two fingers of solid white head that had a good retention to it. Light but malty nose with a faintly nutty hint to it. Flavor was nicely malt forward with a mild sweetness and caramel and biscuit flavor to it, as well as faint nutty, toffee hints, body feels medium/ light with an average amount of carbonation to it and a nice smooth mouthfeel to it, easy drinking and not to heavy. Finish is lightly bitter with a light balancing touch of faintly noble hop back-end that still leave a faintly lingering caramel sweetness on the aftertaste. Not a bad example of a Märzen

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2018 Draft. It pours a caramel brown Cor with an off-white head. The aroma and flavor is caramel malt. The taste is rather sweet. Nice Oktoberfest.

UPDATED: MAY 14, 2018 Bue à la brasserie à San José. Ambrée. Pas grand chose de spécial si ce n'est un petit fumé final