Favorite Oktoberfest beer this year?

[Noodle]

And I assume by that you mean Berkshire Brewing Co. not Boston Beer Co. haha?

Yeah that is what I ment but I'm not going to lie...... I do enjoy a Sam Adams every now and then.

 

[beesy]

Ayering and Great Lakes are two of my favorite Octoberfests

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Just bought a sixer of Sam Adams Oktoberfest. I enjoyed it but I was getting a lot of 'Munich malt fruitiness' for lack of a better phrase. Also got what I think is a yeast-derived 'meaty' aroma. That aroma is something I recently encountered with the Danish Lager strain. To some degree both might be one of those desirable traits when in the right proportion, but I don't really know.

 

[brrman]

I always gravitate towards Spaten Oktoberfest for some reason. The Sam Adams seems to sweet/crystal to me. Spaten's is clean.

 

[godofcheese]

The new Shiner Oktoberfest isn't bad at all. Its rather normal overall with a clean crispness to go along with the crystal and munich malts.

 

[Rhoobarb]

O'fest is one of my 'top 3' favorite styles. I had SA O'fest on tap Friday night at an Applebee's, of all places. Was pretty good, but had a slight tobacco finish, most likely from dark crystal malts. Still, pretty tasty. I like Goose Island's Harvest Ale and would like to try Great Lakes, New Glarus and a dozen others, too.

But I'm too busy enjoying my own O'fest!

clickety click pic for my O'fest recipe

 

[BogusOwnz]

...would like to try...New Glarus and a dozen others, too.

I picked up a 6 pack of new glarus o'fest and it is very good but nothing stand out different from spaten or SA. I've only tried 4 and so far paulner imo has the o'fest this year. I'll pick up some harvest this weekend.

 

[Rhoobarb]

...so far paulner imo has the o'fest this year. ...

It's good, for sure. Believe it or not, if you can find it on tap (can't speak for the green bottle version) Beck's is surprisingly good. Not out of this world, but better than I would ever have suspected.

I was at a local O'fest a few years ago and they had four O'fests on tap, one of which was Beck's. I passed Beck's up the entire time, thinking it would be bland and thin. I decided to have one as it was nearing our time to leave and was surprised - it was the best of the four on tap that day!

 

[Damsie101]

Seems like all breweries put out their Octoberfest/Harvest beers at the same time. Grabbed a harvest mix-6 pack at my local bev center. Southern Tier Harvest is really good, Flying Dog Punkin Ale is good as well. Pass on anything Magic hat, they have two out right now. Pass on Weyerback(sp?) Imperial Pumpkin, way too much spices trying to cover up astringent alcohol taste.

 

[BogusOwnz]

Man had SA O'fest on draft today...ya it's really &ucking good, better then bottles.

P.s. Saw people drinking bud light wheat out of aluminum bottles.......

 

[StoutFan]

Leinenkugels!!!!!!
http://leinie.com/oktoberfest.html
But I'm partial up here in the northwoods.......

 

[PassionBeer]

Seems like all breweries put out their Octoberfest/Harvest beers at the same time. Grabbed a harvest mix-6 pack at my local bev center. Southern Tier Harvest is really good, Flying Dog Punkin Ale is good as well. Pass on anything Magic hat, they have two out right now. Pass on Weyerback(sp?) Imperial Pumpkin, way too much spices trying to cover up astringent alcohol taste.

I seem to notice that with a lot of the Weyerbacher beers. They really have a hard time masking the alcohol heat...

On a side note, I picked up some Pumpkin/Octoberfest beers last night. Namely, Dogfish Head Punkin Ale. Brooklyn's Post Road Pumpkin is in there too, but I cannot wait to try the Dogfish... Mmmm...

 

[malvado78]

Picked up the case of Spaten Okt at Sams for $24 for a firends bday the other night.

I really wanted SA but they had sold out of it already.

I found the Spaten to have a sweet/fruity flavor to it. Not what I expected . I wanted a more malty flavor.

It was good enough but I had to get past initial disappointment.

Any one else get a fruity hint or is it just my case?

 

[Snafu]

I'm happy to report, for myself at least, that SA's Oktoberfest is much better this year. Last year it was pretty rough, too many burnt flavors, zero head, and other off flavors I can't quite put my finger on now. But this year, pretty tasty! Its not exactly My favorite, but one that I do enjoy. Our local brew pub (Legends) puts out a great Oktoberfest.

 

[BogusOwnz]

Picked up a 6 pack of Bell's and it is so so. Here is an updated list of the ones I've tried so far this year from best to worst imo.

Paulner
Sam Adams
Spaten
Great Lakes
Bell's
New Glarus (really didn't like this one at all was kind of surprised from New Glarus but I guess not everything they make can be magic.)

 

[JeepDiver]

Grabbed a 12 of SA, but also picked up a of Brooklyn's Oktoberfest last weekend. Had one of the SA's but finished off the Brooklyn

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Anybody tried Brooklyn's Oktoberfest??

 

[GoldMiner]

Weihenstephaner's Festbeer is a new favorite of mine.

Also recently tried a sixer of Otter Creek Oktoberfest - very similar to Sam Adams version at a lower price.

 

[yummybeer]

Leinenkugels!!!!!!
http://leinie.com/oktoberfest.html
But I'm partial up here in the northwoods.......

i also have had leinie's oktoberfest. it was good. still like the spatan oktoberfest the best though.
just came back from visiting freinds in minnesota and brought back some schell's oktoberfest. schell's make good beer, but their oktoberfest is the best they make. though it's hard to find where i live, schell's oktoberfest i like better than sam adams.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

New Glarus' Staghorn is back to true form after a dissapointing year last year. It is my perennial favorite. Its the only American Maerzen that tastes like a Bavarian example, but we get it fresh and well treated. Great beer.

 

[elkdog]

Grabbed a sixer of the Highland Brewing Company's Octoberfest last weekend for a jam session with fellow brewers. I like that one a lot. The only one I haven't liked was Left Hand's, which had a strong candy note to it that was pretty unpleasant.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

I think I will take this opportunity to say that I hate Leini's with the fire and passion of a thousand exploding suns.

 

[brrman]

Just tried the Harpoon Oktoberfest. A little on the bitter side but not bad. (Sam Adams [last years] can be on the cloy/burny side for me also - haven't tried it this year yet).

So far the Hacker Pschorr is my favorite this year.

 

[Hotspur]

Only one I've tried this year was the Hooker's Oktoberfest from Connecticut. It was... not good. It didn't really have enough malt backbone, and the hops produced an odd grassy/vegetable flavors. Next trip to CT I need to pick up something else of theirs and see if it was an off batch or what. It had a brew date of 9/3/10 stamped on the bottle.

I'll have to hit up the package store here and see what they have in, I haven't bought much recently.

 

[camatt2989]

I really liked magic hats hex so far but thats besides the sam adams i drink all the time... has anyone had Dundee...im not sure if its any good bit leary to try. (bottled by the high falls brewing co)

 

[Malticulous]

I tried to get SA today the damn store has the Summer ale still in stock and not the fall seasonal. I got the Ayinger. I like mine better. Too bad it's going stale, I should have drank it all months ago.

 

[Hermit]

So far I have had Ayinger, Avery (Imperial Oktoberfest), Left Hand, and Great Lakes. By far I thought Great Lakes was the best, but that could be also that it is fresh and local for me and is on tap. So It has an advantage.

I won one (Great Lakes) in a craft beer drawing at out local brew club. I thought it was simply awesome myself. I wondered if it was just me because it just 'hit the spot' at that particular time or if it was as good as I thought. I'm down in Ytown, so it isn't too far from the source....

 

[Denny330]

I have had a few oktoberfests this year and my two favs have been Summit brewing's octoberfest and Flying Dog's Dogtoberfest. Pretty amazing brews.

 

[PearlJamNoCode]

I've tried or am in the process of trying roughly 25 different varieties of Oktoberfest this season. So far I've found 2 that I really did not like at all (Otter Creek and Harpoon). The Otter Creek is actually an ale, so I partially blame my not liking it on improper expectations. I'll be posting some mini reviews/ratings when complete.

 

[BogusOwnz]

I'm very impressed with Dogtoberfest...btw didn't Oktoberfest start today?