Tonight my dad and I had our own mini-tasting, featuring Oktoberfest brews!! I know, we’re a little late with this style. But we had a few left over in the fridge that we needed to drink, and my dad suggested we make it a little more exciting by staging our own tasting! We had offerings from Sam Adam’s Brewery (Boston Beer Co.- Boston, MA), Stegmaier (Lion Brewery- a local offering! Wilkes-Barre, PA), Shiner (Spoetzl Brewery- Shiner, TX), and Point (Stevens Point Brewery- Stevens Point, WI).
I really enjoyed all the Oktoberfest’s; each of them had great color and flavor. Sam Adam’s and Stegmaier are a little bolder in flavor than both Shiner and Point. Point was definitely the malty-est of all four, which isn’t really my favorite type of flavor. Shiner held it’s head better than any of the other brews. I think my two favorites had to be Shiner and Sam Adam’s - one a little milder, the other a little richer.
If you have a few bottles of the same style of beer, try having your own little tasting! It makes drinking them a little bit more fun! (Not like drinking isn’t fun already hahaha…)
Prost!
Erin