Oktoberfest 2023 Beer Tasting
September 8, 2023
Get ready to preview a whole group of Oktoberfest-style beers available in the West Virginia market. On this West Virginia Beer Roads podcast you’ll hear Erin and Charles, along with special guest Chris Brown, sample and discuss eight different O-fest beers from West Virginia, other states, and Bavaria.
This is our 4th year to taste the best of the festbiers. Find out which beers stood out and became our favorites. [HINT: the two WV-made Oktoberfest 2023 beers were right in the mix.]
Listen the the Oktoberfest 2023 Podcast
Oktoberfest beers are a wundervoll tribute to autumn
LINKS
Official Munich Oktoberfest website
Last year’s Oktoberfest podcast
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5 comments on “Oktoberfest 2023 Beer Tasting”
Chuck
September 8, 2023 at 2:55 pmAyingers is good this year
Brad Deel
September 8, 2023 at 5:06 pmMy favorite style of the year. Loves me some Forest Fest. 🙂
Brad Deel
September 8, 2023 at 5:25 pmChuckle. This is a Reddit comment about the Sierra Nevada collab:
” This reminds me of the Stone brewing variety packs you’d get at costco where they taste like a dried, burnt asshole.”
Charles Bockway
September 10, 2023 at 3:07 pmThe beer has been controversial to style purists, a descriptor which I often identify with. But in this case, I find that I like the 2023 Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest quite a bit. No, it’s not a traditional Munich-style festbier, but it’s an excellent beer nonetheless.
Steve Hamula
September 29, 2023 at 2:31 pmAlthough I am a little bit late to the party here, I always enjoy the annual Oktoberfest tasting. Just wish this one had video as well similar to last year. It always helps to be able to get a look at the beer especially with the color differences between a festbier and the marzen style of Oktoberfest beers. Also, glad you guys liked the Helltown entry. As you noted, Helltown is a recent entrant into the southern WV beer market, but it has been available up north for a while now. Although this is the first Oktoberfest selection of theirs I have tasted (and I agree with your assessment of it during the podcast), I have enjoyed some of their other year around selections. In any event, I think it would be worth checking out some of their other selections as well. Again, great job again this year for Oktoberfest! Already looking forward to 2024!