My regular grocery store (Albertson's) doesn't have any Sam Adams at all, but I found some Oktoberfest at Freddy's yesterday and bought a 12-pack. That'll last me at least Christmas, as much beer as I drink. I might pick up another one after Labor Day though.

If you like Sam Adams' Octoberfest, I'd recommend branching out and trying some other Octoberfest beers as well. Even if you don't drink a bunch of beer, hit up your local well-stocked liquor store and do one of those "build your own 6-packs" to try 6 different Octoberfests.

SA's Octoberfest is pretty good, but it's not the best. Especially compared to some of the imported German Octoberfest beers.

SA's is not even the best US-made Octoberfest, IMO. It's just the most readily available.

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Originally posted by DrDan:

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Originally posted by joel9507:


The Germans stopped serving Marzen style beer at the Oktoberfest some years ago.

Well that explains a lot. When I was at Oktoberfest in 2011, the beer I drank seemed too light to be a Marzen. I had to try 5 steins, just to make sure. That year was also an uproar, because they no longer served 1.0L steins, but 0.9L steins.

I was at Oktoberfest in 1993 and 1995 and recall the beer being a very pale yellow and assumed it was brewed lighter to be able to drink loads of it all day.

Now that I think of it, it is true that most of the "Oktoberfest" we find here is a heavier, amber colored type.

Wait, what? Even Ze Germans are doing the product shrinkage thing? Mine were all 1.0L and I don't remember how many I drank, but I recall being barely able to walk straight.

Where's our member with the pallets-full?!!?

You had me at beer...

cheers~

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Where's our member with the pallets-full?!!?

Check out the 5th post of this thread. I cried myself to sleep last night after reading his post. I look forward to the picture of that pallet each year.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
If you like Sam Adams' Octoberfest, I'd recommend branching out and trying some other Octoberfest beers as well. Even if you don't drink a bunch of beer, hit up your local well-stocked liquor store and do one of those "build your own 6-packs" to try 6 different Octoberfests.

SA's Octoberfest is pretty good, but it's not the best. Especially compared to some of the imported German Octoberfest beers.

SA's is not even the best US-made Octoberfest, IMO. It's just the most readily available.

You are spot on and i enjoy many different marzen style beers. While i drink a lot of the SA and Yuenlings oktoberfest mainly because they are pretty good and easy to find i think my favorite when i can find it is Ayinger followed by maybe Paulaner.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
i think my favorite when i can find it is Ayinger

As is mine.

One of the the enjoyable aspects of drinking O'fest beers is that each year they taste different.

Scored big today.
The weather is just starting to turn here and is cooling off from the summer heat which means it is time to start breaking the Oktoberfest beers that I have been stockpiling over the last few months. Mostly Yuenglings which I think is really good this year and some others like Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada.

I stopped by the local beer distributor today and found a 4 pack of this mythical brew:



So of course I find an employee and ask if they have any more. He hits the computer and says that they don't have any more of the 4 packs but they have some of the bigger bottles.

Me: Show me.

So he climbs up a ladder and finds a box with some 500ml bottles and asks if I want any and how many.

Me: Just bring the box down.

So I also came home with these.



it was like Christmas came early.

Spaten Octoberfest is great but they don't stock much of it around here.

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Originally posted by daikyu:
Spaten Octoberfest is great but they don't stock much of it around here.

I have not heard of it, i will have to add it to the watch list.

Hoffbrau Octoberfest is especially good this year.

Nice score Spinzone, I like the Ayingers as well, must go find some...

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I would be happy if they did Oktoberfest beers year round.

It’s one seasonal/holiday creep effect I’m not bothered by in the least.