Sign-In Create Account. My Cart Account Support. Search form Search. Podcast Livestream Buying Events. Top Ten Oktoberfest Beers Issue Share This Article. Inside the Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest tent. Photo Credit: Jim Kelly. What Is Oktoberfest? Building Radar "Oktoberfest". Retrieved 27 August Conrad Seidl 9 Sep The Oxford Companion to Beer.
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Top 20 Christmas and Holiday Beers. Today, some American breweries are attempting to rediscover the roots of the Oktoberfest style , consulting with German labels and scouring old recipes. Sierra Nevada, for instance, partners with a different German brewery each year for its Oktoberfest brew. Others are fully embracing the Americanization of the Oktoberfest style, making them stronger and boozier, or using dry-hopping methods for a more aggressive flavor profile.
Caramel malt notwithstanding, Sam Adams also does a pretty good rendition with its Oktoberfest brew. Don't miss a drop! Clean fermenting lager yeast allows the toasted and caramel flavors of dark malts to shine through. Think of dark lagers anytime you are grilling meats and veggies, as they offer a straightforward complement to the roasty elements grilled foods.
It can range from zero to over Beer bitterness is subject to perception. What is aggressively bitter to some is mildly bitter to others. Also, bitterness can seem lower in the presence of residual sugar, carbonation and cooler temperatures. The style of Oktoberfest includes both the beers specifically brewed for serving, or in the style of those served, at the world's largest beer festival, Oktoberfest in Munich, which takes place each year in mid-September September 16 this year.
That means these beers are typically consumed in September, not October as the name suggests. Also Oktoberfest beers are almost invariably lagers. If you wanted to brew an ale for your Oktoberfest party, no one can stop you, but you'd definitely be bucking tradition. However, surprisingly, the type of lager varies significantly, causing our biggest source of confusion.
Siegel recently worked with Munich's Spaten Brauerei, one of the festival's official breweries, to create a new Oktoberfest beer for Goose Island. In America, our Oktoberfests tend to be red hued, slightly sweet beers known as a Marzen.
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