Karl Strauss Oktoberfest Beer
Thanks to jcwattsrugger for bringing this one back for me from California... Pours copperish orangish amber with an off-white head that becomes patchy. The smell is of lightly carmelized malt with spicy, biscuity, earthy background. The taste is of carmelized graininess with balancing spicy, earthy hops. Not quite as malt-accented as typical of style, though hops don't quite stand out either. Overall flavor - decent but mild... The carbonation is a bit forward, but smooth overall. Lighter side of medium-bodied. A decent O-fest - easy to drink, but nothing especially noteworthy - nor anything particularly off" - a decent/mediocre/typical American interpretation of an O-fest.