A great day on the course with 7 fellow golfers. We played Otter Creek and as usual it played pretty tough and as for my game the back nine beat me up. Anyhow after the game we had a few drinks in there 19th hole and on tap was tonight's brew. It is listed as a Märzen / Oktoberfest Beer. These beers were brewed in the spring (Märzen or March brews) to be bready for the fall and kept a in cellars with cool enough temperatures to keep the brew over the summer as brewing in the summer b prior to refrigeration often prove difficult. They are generally dark/copper in colour with only a mild hop profile.
This one is very typical of the style, it poured an dark amber/copper colour with adequate head that dissipated quickly leaving some sticky lacing across the surface. The aroma was somewhat sweet with toffee and malt being the predominant smell. The taste was also fairly sweet, toffee, brown sugar with a fruity background and virtually no hop bitterness. Bill's comments were "a little to sweet, it looks like Rickard's Red and doesn't taste much better". Over all an okay brew that does fit its style but as Bill said not much better than a Rickard's Red, we both scored it at 3.5 out of 5
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