Prost!

One of the top things on my Bucket List is to go to Oktoberfest. The real one. Tentatively I am planning to go next year, but we'll see if that ends up coming together or not. In the mean time I have to settle for the "imported" versions of what they serve over there. I've been waiting for that time of year to come around, so today, while we are grilling up some brats, I've started sipping on a Paulaner Oktoberfest Märzen.

The cool thing about this brew is that it complies to the German Beer Purity Law of 1516, called the Reinheitsgebot. Essentially this law says that any beer brewed in Germany can only contain 4 ingredients: water, barley, hops, and yeast. Fun fact about this is that originally it was just 3 ingredients because we had not discovered microorganisms yet... that came along in the 1800's. If a brewer was caught using anything other than those ingredients the beer could have been confiscated without any compensation. What a waste!

In general the oktoberfest/märzen style is one of my favorite types of beer. I love the caramel maltiness that you get from them. Very smooth, great flavor. Has that 'goldilocks' quality about the hoppiness and bitterness. The Paulaner Brewery has been making beer since 1634 so you know they know what they are doing. I think everyone should try this one. Drinking them in 1L sized mugs will get you bonus points.

Gotta cut the blog post short today because of the huge day of work I got tomorrow [notice that my Calendar is up on the laptop], but hopefully this was a somewhat of a decent post. I really enjoyed this beer and it gave me a second wind to finish out the long work day. I even got to drink it out of my Paulaner flute glass! Always a plus when I get to change things up.

Paulaner

Oktoberfest Märzen

Oktoberfest/Märzen

5.8% abv