🔥 HOT TAKE: Sierra Nevada’s Festbier is so smooth, I’d trust it to parallel park my car after three steins.
Yeah yeah, I know—“authentic German Märzens only!!” 🥴
But Sierra Nevada's Oktoberfest Festbier is over here like: crisp, clean, and ready to party without giving you a sugar crash halfway through the polka. This isn’t just a beer — it’s lederhosen in a can.
🇩🇪✨ Brewed in California, sips like Munich. Your move, Germany.
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More about Sierra Nevada's Oktoberfest Festbier.
Out of the 12-ounce can, Oktoberfest Festbier produces a spirited blanket of khaki-off-white, resting on a clear pool of burnt gold. Receding, there is a thin band of lacing resting inside the glass and a small archipelago of lace on the surface.
Swirling and sniffing, we recover notes of cooking herbs, cooking spice, and earthiness.
Sipping, we recover notes of graham cracker sweetness, some toastiness, more of that hop earthiness, cooking herbs, an almost woodsiness, and finishing sharp with bitter notes. Overall, Oktoberfest has a medium mouthfeel, a noticeable alcoholic warmth, and a lingering sharpness that is punctuated by bitterness.