What better way to warm up for Muskoka Oktoberfest than a prosit with a Muskoka Brewery Festbier. I got reminiscing about Oktoberfest back in the day, cheers and beers, a host with the most chanting prost, prosit until you close it. In the immortal words of the Irish Rovers, “wasn’t that a party.” * Oktoberfest these days for us COMDB is best described as tame but not lame, Oktoberfest glory days long behind us. Getting a little misty eyed here.
I got thinking about that Irish Rovers song, and I have a theory. I think the movie, “The Hangover” was based on the song “Wasn’t That a Party”. You’ve got the cat and the stolen police car, and then everything went black. Although in the song they got thirty days for stealing the police car instead of being on the wrong end of a taser demonstration. And nobody married a stripper. But I digress, and I also know it is time to change the subject when the words “married a stripper” show up in a review.
This Festbier brew is by Muskoka Brewery in collaboration with Orca Brau Nürnberg from Germany. The COMDB translation department has been itching and twitching to get involved in this review, I think partly due to the wool lederhosen they have donned for Oktoberfest. Orca Brau Nürnberg translates to Orca Brew from Nuremberg. Prost and prosit are both ways of saying cheers. And as I hear the fridge door open and a few caps snapping, the COMDB translation department is done for the day.
What a great pour, golden clear, no bubbles, but with a full head of…head. A very nice malt forward aroma, lagerlicicous. The first swig revealed a good full bodied malt flavour with a slight sweet finish, we are festing now. More than a standard lager but not as much as an amber, this is a full flavoured lager with that bit of extra flavour you hope for from a good craft brew. Smooth, no bitters or aftertaste, just a nice easy drinking full bodied lager. Great warm up to the Mukskoka Oktoberfest.
I was sampling this brew while watching my good buds, those would be the Leafs, win in overtime against the poorly named Stars. Good beer, good game, good review. Looks like this brew has the goods.
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