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Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest Festbier Craft Beer Review 2026! · Strikeout Beer

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  Speaker 1: What is going on everyone welcome to strike up your
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  Speaker 1: quick beer reviews with your pals alan and rapid dave
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  Speaker 1: i'm alan rd man what up how much how you
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  Speaker 1: doing brother i'm hanging out hanging out chilling okay we
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  Speaker 1: got a beer today what are we drinking.
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  Speaker 2: Sierra nevada october fest fest beer germany or german brewery
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  Speaker 2: collaboration 12 fluid ounces the lager and it's a 6.0
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  Speaker 2: percent alcohol volume 32 ibus brewed in uh chico california
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  Speaker 2: mills river north carolina.
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  Speaker 1: This year, they collabed with Hopper Hour Brewery that was
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  Speaker 1: founded in 2010. So there's a fun fact for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. In Bavaria. So a new brewery in Bavaria. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In 2010. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go. When Sierra Nevada makes this every year,
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  Speaker 1: they partner with a different German brewery every year.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, hey, let's just we're not ready
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  Speaker 1: to commit yet. We're going to try some things out,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Each year we partner with a German brewery to create
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  Speaker 2: a traditional Oktoberfest, but this modern fest beer breaks the mold,
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  Speaker 2: it says.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Our 2026 is light, lightly dry hopped for a hint
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  Speaker 2: of floral character balanced by a biscuity flavor thanks to
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  Speaker 2: Munich malt, but it won't last long.
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  Speaker 3: This seasonal beer will be gone. You can say prost.
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  Speaker 1: Prost.
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  Speaker 3: Prost. Cheers.
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  Speaker 1: Miles and Miles of good things. It smells delicious.
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  Speaker 3: I love fast beers. I like it's a lager.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people have the, they always think like October
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  Speaker 2: fast beers.
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  Speaker 3: They're like the Mars or something like that. It's either or.
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  Speaker 3: It's either or.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of a, more of a lager guy, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the quantity that I'm a.
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  Speaker 3: Knocking these things back. I always get a little too
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  Speaker 3: sweet on me.
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  Speaker 1: So I got a little breakdown of just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like how the styles differ here for you, if you're interested.
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  Speaker 3: I'm listening.
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  Speaker 1: Your Fest beer is going to be more of a
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  Speaker 1: golden color, whereas your Marzen is going to be more
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  Speaker 1: of an amber to copper color. Correct. Fest is going
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  Speaker 1: to be lighter, crispier, whereas the Marzen is going to
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  Speaker 1: be richer and toastier.
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  Speaker 3: Quite hoppy, isn't it? Isn't this one hoppy? It's hoppier
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  Speaker 3: than normal.
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  Speaker 1: That's about 35, what did I say?
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  Speaker 3: 32 IBUs. I'm just saying hoppy. You can taste it
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  Speaker 3: and it's... It's.
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  Speaker 1: Got a balanced malt and hops versus the Marzen's more
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  Speaker 1: of a malt forward flavor. And this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be highly refreshing versus the fuller body of the Marzen.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a little.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: This versus that for you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just like I said, I like having
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  Speaker 2: a couple of Marzen's, you know, late September, early October.
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  Speaker 3: But I prefer the Fespier. you know for the lager
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot we got some hellos you're about to go.
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  Speaker 1: Through you're a lighter beer type guy yeah sure you
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  Speaker 1: know you enjoy the lighter beers it's like more crisp
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  Speaker 1: refreshing yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know december january roll around yeah february we've got
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  Speaker 2: i guess i'll do dry january this year i don't
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  Speaker 2: know it sounds ridiculous it does but we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: the it's usually if december is that tough i've had
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  Speaker 2: to do it before just like you know what i
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  Speaker 2: just can't take this anymore But then Liz is like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's go get in the hot tub.
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  Speaker 3: Grab some beers. I go, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Drunk January. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I could go that route.
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  Speaker 3: You know? Hey. Yeah, why not? It is good.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a little bit of a hoppiness on the end.
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  Speaker 2: A little aftertaste for you. Usually the lagers, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty crisp, pretty clean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's got that floral notes just hanging around towards
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  Speaker 3: the end. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is using American and German hops. The Cascade adds
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  Speaker 1: citrus and floral notes, while the Hirschbroeckler contributes traditional German
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  Speaker 1: herbal character.
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  Speaker 3: Quite herbal, quite floral, I would say, more than any citrus.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not getting any citrus in this one. I should
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  Speaker 3: have ate a bunch of candy before I started. The
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  Speaker 3: aftertaste makes me think I'm drinking an IPA. Does it not?
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  Speaker 3: Like a light IPA. It's a 6%er? I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite hoppy for a lager.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's... It's just kind of got
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  Speaker 1: a little lingering. Just a little lingering, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a... I'm not taking points off for it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying it tastes like it's.
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  Speaker 3: Some hops on the ass end of it. A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. Just a little bit. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: dogging it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You make it sound like I'm dogging it. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: What's the average score on this real quick, and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll slam on the word done, and we'll give them
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  Speaker 2: our scores.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have it on tap? You didn't have it ready?
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  Speaker 1: Normally it pulls it, but it didn't pull it that
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  Speaker 1: time for me. So here in 3, 2, 1, I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you it's a 3.8 out of 5 out
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  Speaker 1: of 9,852 ratings.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Oh, I guess it just came out of that. Cheers.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they got to create a new one for it
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  Speaker 1: every year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It's going to be, for this one, I
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  Speaker 3: like it. You know what I'll do? I was going
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  Speaker 3: to say 3.7. It's a 3.50 for me. It's I
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: But at that, that hoppiness towards the end, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of just, and so, as I said, I wouldn't deduct points.
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  Speaker 1: You literally just deducted points.
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  Speaker 3: I am deducting points.
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  Speaker 1: You lying bastard. I'm a three, seven, five on this one.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoy it. It's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to have some more. I might run by
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  Speaker 1: my local. I could simply get this in my local target,
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  Speaker 1: not target Kroger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you probably get a target to see package.
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  Speaker 3: I got seven, 17. I think that's a 26. Yeah. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's from this year, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they typically release this late summer is when
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  Speaker 1: this beer comes out.
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  Speaker 3: You see it in August. You know, late August, all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, you see it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw this thing floating around in the 12-pack, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, too early, too early. But then I
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  Speaker 2: went to Total Wine, went to Louisville Total Wine this time,
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  Speaker 2: and loved the selection. I had to stop going there
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  Speaker 2: for a little while because it was just kind of
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  Speaker 2: pissing me off every time I go in there. But
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  Speaker 2: this time, went on like a Monday or Tuesday. When
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  Speaker 2: I told you I went, it was chill as hell.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody was there. It was Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the kids lesson when I got the text.
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  Speaker 1: Good beer. Good and good for you. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Put that in your gullet and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Taste it and drink it up.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had this year's Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest Fest beer?
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  Speaker 1: Let us know. As always, I'm Alan.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to you later. Deuces.