Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

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hornetguy said:
Leinie, for the win! (FTW) I know it's heresy, but I really don't care for Shiner's Octoberfest... SamAdams is pretty good, but for my taste, it's the Leinie....
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I've been enjoying an Oktoberfest beer every other day since late August, although I doubt if my remaining stockpile will take me into the New Year. I've done some informal, low-key taste-testing of five brands of Oktoberfests this fall, and have found out that I enjoy Founders, Leinie, Samuel Adams, and Great Lakes almost equally - whichever one I happen to be drinking on a given evening tastes very good to me. At some point I decided that I'd probably give a slight advantage to Great Lakes Oktoberfest, but it's "splitting hairs". One conclusion that was surprisingly easy for me to reach was that I didn't care for Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest nearly as much as I did the others - I thought it was "too hoppy". This surprised me, because 3 years ago (see the post linked above) I selected Sierra Nevada as my favorite. This can probably be explained by the fact that Sierra Nevada has a German brewery as their partner for brewing their Oktoberfest each season, but I think it has been a different German partner each year.
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5K Qs said:
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I've been enjoying an Oktoberfest beer every other day since late August, although I doubt if my remaining stockpile will take me into the New Year. I've done some informal, low-key taste-testing of five brands of Oktoberfests this fall, and have found out that I enjoy Founders, Leinie, Samuel Adams, and Great Lakes almost equally - whichever one I happen to be drinking on a given evening tastes very good to me. At some point I decided that I'd probably give a slight advantage to Great Lakes Oktoberfest, but it's "splitting hairs". One conclusion that was surprisingly easy for me to reach was that I didn't care for Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest nearly as much as I did the others - I thought it was "too hoppy". This surprised me, because 3 years ago (see the post linked above) I selected Sierra Nevada as my favorite. This can probably be explained by the fact that Sierra Nevada has a German brewery as their partner for brewing their Oktoberfest each season, but I think it has been a different German partner each year.
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I tried three of those Oktoberfest brands and my preference is almost exactly opposite. I really like this years Sierra Nevada offering but I thought the Sam Adams was a bit too bland. I guess I like the hoppy taste a bit more. Once again my favorite of the three was Founders. I’d like to try the Great Lakes and Leinie next year. I did manage to slip in some Wisconsin exclusive Spotted Cow which I very much enjoyed. That cut into my Oktoberfest sampling this year but it was worth every drop! I did not know about the different German brewers for Sierra, interesting.
 
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