Weihenstephaner Festbier, LABOR DAY begins

In honor of uber efficient Germans and lazy drunk Americans, over Labor Day I am continuing the German beer theme which began Tuesday at Library Ale House. I picked up a wheelbarrow's worth of German bier at Beverage Warehouse, thanks to my half-day Friday and enjoyed the fruits of my labor (or lack thereof) catching up on Rescue Me. It's melodramatic at times but Leary is the shit.

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Weihenstephaner is the same brewery from Tuesday's post and this is their Marzen, or festival beer (like Oktoberfest). Marzen means 'March' and usually applies to a beer brewed in the late spring to use up the last of the previous fall's hops and malt before brewing ceased for the summer. Efficient, right? It's been around a while, since the 1860's (interestingly Oktoberfest started in 1810). The beer is a lager and has nice gold coloring. The idea of a Marzen is to be all about the malt, but balance the bier out with hops. Z malts were there but the hops didn't check in. It has good drinkability though and I could be persuaded to drinks 3 steins of this before lunch in late September/early October in Munich. 3 steins = 9 beers and would be apocalyptic for me; accordingly, ARMAGEDDON.