Oktoberfest Beer - Blind Tasting

It’s Oktoberfest, time for some blind beer tasting

For the second year in a row, the famed Oktoberfest in Munich has been cancelled.  Sad.  But, the beers are still flowing and there are pretty of great offerings available across the States.  We gathered up with a couple friends and fellow beer lovers recently for our annual Oktoberfest Blind Beer Tasting.  Anthony Storey of Storey Time Construction joined us along with repeat Oktoberfest taster, Nate Scheiber of Cherry Street Brewing.

Our rules are pretty simple.  Taste the beer and make some notes on whether or not you like it.  Easy stuff.  We’ve got Marzen and Festbier in the mix together, it’s just all about the season.  We sampled 10 beers for the competition and sampled Bold Monk’s Festbier after the tasting courtesy of owner John “JR” Roberts.

Winners!

Scoring:  Each taster picked their Top 3 beers. 3rd place earns 1 point, 2nd place earns 2 points, and 1st place earns 3 points.  This is the cumulative Top 3.

  1. Sam Adams Festbier
  2. Ironmonger Oktoberfest
  3. Sam Adams Octoberfest

As mentioned in our notes below, Sam Adams is usually a favorite in our Oktoberfest tastings.  However, they’ve had off years where they just really missed it for us.  This year they land both of their Festy beers in the Top 3 with Octoberfest at #3 and Festbier taking the #1 spot.  Our friends at Ironmonger came in strong with their Oktoberfest, landing in the #2 spot.  This was the only Georgia beer we put in the tasting this year.

Ironmonger Oktoberfest Beer - Blind tasting winner #3
You’ll have to come visit us in Georgia to get our #2 Oktoberfest this year.  Ironmonger Brewing coming in strong for your Fall drinking needs.

The Beer List (In tasting order.)

  1. Hofbrau Munchen | Oktoberfestbier | 6.3%
  2. Bells Oktoberfest | Marzen | 5.5%
  3. Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest | Marzen, 5.5%, not a collab this year
  4. Yuengling Oktoberfest | Marzen-style
  5. Ironmonger Oktoberfest | Marzen, 5.5%
  6. Hi Wire Zirkusfest | Marzen, 6% 
  7. Hacker-Pschorr | Oktoberfest Marzen | 5.8%
  8. Paulaner | Oktoberfest Marzen | 5.8%
  9. Sam Adams Octoberfest | Marzen style, 5.3%.  Generally one of our favs, but has had off years
  10. Sam Adams Festbier | 5.8%
  11. Bold Monk Festbier (After party palate pleaser.)

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More Oktoberfest Tasting

The tradition goes back to the early days of Beer Guys Radio.  Follow the links below to check out our Oktoberfest shows from years past.

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