Day 272 / Oktoberfest Winner - Germany vs USA

Day 272 / September 29, 2011

Warsteiner Premium Oktoberfest

Warsteiner Brauerei / Warstein, Germany

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Germany wins by a sip!

I found a 12 pack of Warsteiner Oktoberfest at Norm’s Beer and Wne in Vienna, VA.  So I had a worthy contender for my Bell’s Oktoberfest.

As you can see from the photo essay above, Warsteiner won, but it was extremely close.  The Warsteiner was every bit as good as the Ayinger earlier this month.  And the Bell’s was as good as the Victory Festbier.  But I had to pick a winner, and the Warsteiner was just a little bit gooder.

Day 269, Sep 26 / Hofbräu Oktoberfest

Day 269 / September 26, 2011

Hofbräu Oktoberfest

Staatliches Hofbräuhaus / 

Munich, Germany

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It all comes down to this!

Six German Oktoberfest beers vs. six American Oktoberfest beers.  Who will win?  The American beers clocked in with an aggregate score of 36.  The German beers are at 32, with one beer left.

Tonight I cracked open a Hofbrau Oktoberfest.  It was a more golden color than the American Marzens.  I gotta say, I cannot recommend this beer.  The taste was a little bit… I don’t know… maybe a little offensive.  Kinda made me go… meh.

I’m not gonna give it a “Not Good,”, so it will settle in at a “Passable.”  So that means that we have a tie at 36 – and we’re going into Beer Run Overtime!  So I’m going to get one more Oktoberfest from both the US and Germany to see if we can settle the score by the end of the month.  Any suggestions?  (I may take a break from the Oktoberfests for a day or two…)

Oh, and as I was pulling out of a Target parking lot this afternoon, I saw this license plate.  This guy needs to read my blog. 

Here is the pre-OT scoreboard:

		Germany			USA
Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest		G	6		-	-
Stoudt’s Oktober Fest		-	-		G	6
Duck-Rabbit Marzen		-	-		G	6
Ayinger Oktober-Fest Marzen		VG	8		-	-
Erdinger Oktoberfest		G	6		-	-
Shiner Oktoberfest		-	-		P	4
Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier		G	6		-	-
Brooklyn Oktoberfest		-	-		VG	8
Victory Festbier		-	-		VG	8
Weihenstephaner Festbier		G	6		-	-
Flying Fish OktoberFish		-	-		P	4
Hofbrau Oktoberfest		P	4		-	-
TOTALS			36			36

Day 266, Sep 23 / Weihenstephaner Festbier

Day 266 / September 23, 2011

Weihenstephaner Festbier

Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan /
 Freising, Germany

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Easy for you to say!

From the good people at Wikipedia:

The Weihenstephan Brewery can trace its roots at the abbey to the year 768, as a document from that year refers to a hop garden in the area paying a tithe to the monastery. A brewery was actually licensed by the City of Freising in 1040, and that is the founding date claimed by today's modern brewery. The brewery thus has a credible claim to being the oldest working brewery in the world.^[1] (Weltenburg Abbey, also in Bavaria, was founded around 620, and also claims to be the oldest brewery in the world.) 

When the monastery and brewery were secularised under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, they became possessions of the State of Bavaria.

How about we just call it W?

The W Festbier was a lighter marzen style beer, with a pretty mild taste.  Actually nothing remarkable about this beer, but it was still pretty good.  I could see myself hoisting several mugs of this under and a blue and white checkered tent (did I use that line already?).

So, with only 1 beer left per country, we are all tied up!

		Germany			USA
Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest		G	6		-	-
Stoudt’s Oktober Fest		-	-		G	6
Duck-Rabbit Marzen		-	-		G	6
Ayinger Oktober-Fest Marzen		VG	8		-	-
Erdinger Oktoberfest		G	6		-	-
Shiner Oktoberfest		-	-		P	4
Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier		G	6		-	-
Brooklyn Oktoberfest		-	-		VG	8
Victory Festbier		-	-		VG	8
Weihenstephaner Festbier		G	6		-	-
TOTALS			32			32