Pyramid Oktoberfest Autumn Lager:
Hello all and welcome to the home stretch of our Oktoberfest run.  Today let’s look at the last domestic Oktoberfest beer on the roster: Pyramid’s Oktoberfest.  Now the beer is classified as an Autumn Lager which doesn’t seem to jive with what we’ve been seeing here lately but let’s not pass judgment until we’ve tried it, shall we? The beer pours the familiar reddish amber color of the Marzen beers with a decent looking head but it really doesn’t last long (probably due to the fact that it never got more than a ¼” in thickness) and a nose that is a balanced combo of breads and sweet malts.  The beer’s taste id distinctly hoppy at the front end which, along with an abundance of carbonation, moves to the mid tongue where the carbonation takes over to a slight burn feeling while the hops fades.  The back end of the taste is very caramel like but without the sweetness but the flavor is there and the aftertaste brings some hop skunk with a dry air about it all.  This is an interesting beer but it seems to fall more in line of a pale ale then an Oktoberfest beer.  Not something that I want to venture back towards anytime soon but maybe sometime down the road.  Maybe.