Lefou
Danged rascally furt
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Imagine my surprise (shock?) when I sat down in the Paulaner restaurant, in Frankfurt, and ordered their Festbier. I expected it to be a Marzen style, but it was light in color, and more in the style of a Pils or Helles, with a little more malt profile.
It was a very good beer, much better than the Oktoberfest examples from the breweries on this side of the Atlantic.
There was a time when the Boston Beer Companies O-Fest was purchased every fall. But no more.
Agreed.
My former "go to" retailer couldn't sell the 28 bottle cases of Crystalbombs he had in stock last year, even when he dropped the sale price. A couple years back a guy ordered some O-fest Wiesn and neglected to pick up the cases the distributor dropped off. I saw them and promptly took the majority home. This past year I couldn't find any Wiesn, even after I asked around in several local shops. Evidently the distributors weren't carrying the stuff, so I compromised with the Hofbräu version instead.
The price for a case bordered on the ridiculous ... nearly $48 plus tax. THIS IS WHY YOU HOMEBREW!