Abita Fall Fest:
Greetings friends, neighbors, and on-lookers and a happy Fall greetings to one and all.  Today lets get festive shall we?  Wait wait, before you go breaking out the bright colors, I was thinking something more…subdue, like Fall festive.  As it really needs no real introduction here, Abita beer is a perennial favorite in this house and the fact that they put out two Autumn beer just makes them that much cooler in my book.  Today we are going to look at the rarer of the two: Fall Fest, which is a Marzen style brew.  The brew pours a nice medium amber with an aggressively building head that is a slight off white color that builds up to about three fingers worth before settling to a splotchy film on the beer’s top and leaving a nice lacing.  The nose is a unlike most of the Marzens that ran through this place last month with a nice sweet, raw malt smell rather that then roasted malts and caramel.  The taste profile is an initial creamy malt flavor that literally balloons to a floral malt flavor that creates a film on roof of the mouth.  The after taste is a biscuit flavor that has traces of hops which give this beer a nice range of flavors and a good balance.  Very enjoyable and it can appeal to a wider range of beer drinkers since it relies more on malts than hops which most popular domestics do in their flavor profile.  Another good beer from Abita and worthy of the beer season with it’s great malt flavor, but still second in my mind.