Fall into New Flavors!
From collegiate beers and ciders to oktoberfests and pumpkin beers, we've got it all! Enjoy fall this year with one (or a few) of our tasty beers!
Regional/National Oktoberfests:
Samuel Adams Octoberfest (5.3 % ABV): The first thing you notice when pouring a glass of this seasonal beer is the color. It's a rich, deep golden amber hue which itself is reflective of the season. Samuel Adams Octoberfest is a malt lover's dream, masterfully blending together four roasts of barley to create a delicious harmony of sweet flavors including caramel and toffee.
Boulevard Bob's '47 (5.9% ABV): Bob's '47 Oktoberfest is a medium-bodied, dark amber brew with a malty flavor and well-balanced hop character.
Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest (6.0% ABV): This festbier is bright like polished copper, rich with biscuity malt, and balanced by a punchy blend of German and American hops.
Schell's Oktoberfest (5.8% ABV): A Märzen that is true to German tradition, it is only brewed once a year to celebrate the fall harvest. the perfect balance of Pale, Munich, and Vienna malts create its toasty backbone.
Breckenridge Oktoberfest (6.0% ABV): Elegant German amber lager with restrained bitterness, smooth creamy texture, and rich toasty and bready malt flavors.
Athletic Brewing Co. Oktoberfest (Less than 0.5% ABV): A festbier brewed with German, Vienna and Munich malts, and German Hersbrucker hops. Embrace fall with this crisp, flavorful brew. With notes of bread crusts and toast, a slight sweetness, and a muted bittnerness.
Firestone Walker Oaktoberfest (5.2% ABV): A seasonal Firestone Walker classic, Oaktoberfest Oak Aged Lager is matured in oak barrels to deliver smooth, rich, and biscuity flavors.
Avery Brewing The Kaiser (8.0% ABV): The Kaiser weaves together rich, toasted Vienna and Munich malts with the floral spiciness of Hellartau and Bravo hops to create a bold and brazen dry Imperial Oktoberfest.
ODell Brewing Oktoberfest (6.1% ABV): Brewed with biscuity sweet Munich malts and spicy, herbal noble hops.
Surly Oktoberfest (6.0% ABV): Oktoberfest lager is the ultimate party beer. Up front, it's rich, sweet, and malty. But it finishes dry and clean with an ever-so-slight touch of hops!
Desthil Märzen Oktoberfest (5.8% ABV): This is a German-style Märzen characterized by a medium body & light reddish-orange color. Sweet malt dominates slightly over a clean hop bitterness. Malt character is light-toasted rather than strongly caramel with bread or biscuit-like alt character present in aroma & flavor. Hop aroma & flavor are low, but notable, while fruity esters are absent.
Left Hand Brewing Oktoberfest (6.6% ABV): This Oktoberfest Märzen balances malt-driven notes of bread crust, biscuit and toasted pretzel with just the right amount of noble hop character, culminating in a dry & spicy finish. Deliciously repeatable, this take on the classic style is the perfect way to toast the season of crisp air, changing leaves, and festival feasts.
Goose Island Oktoberfest (5.7% ABV): Goose Oktoberfest is brimming with notes of toasted malt and freshly baked rye bread. This light bodied German lager is clean and crisp with a fine noble hop character and mild earthy bitterness that is the hallmark of Hallertau hops. Raise a few steins of Goose Oktoberfest this fall and celebrate this time-honored tradition.
Local Oktoberfests:
Backpocket Hawktoberfest (5.3% ABV): What more needs to be said. Grilling, tailgating, and the smooth malt of oktoberfest-style beer just make sense together. We promise Hawktoberfest will pair perfectly with all of it.
Backpocket Clonefest (5.6% ABV): The Official Craft Beer of the Iowa State Cyclones! Clonefest is a traditional golden festbier lager that's well-balanced with noble hops and a bready malt flavor.
Exile Oktoberfest (5.5% ABV): Exile's Märzen-style Oktoberfest is back for the season! Rich in malt with a balance of clean, hop bitterness. Biscuit-like malt aroma and flavor comes through with a touch of floral notes from the German Hallertauer hops.
Big Grove Festbier (5.9% ABV): Big Grove's take on the classic Bavarian Märzen lager!
SingleSpeed Hold My Pretzel (5.9% ABV): Golden in color and pleasantly sweet. SingleSpeed's German-inspired celebratory lager features distinct notes of honey, alongside subtle hints of floral and spice. So good, you might need one in each hand, which means someone will have to... wait for it... hold your pretzel!
Toppling Goliath Oktoberfest (5.2% ABV): Raise a glass of Oktoberfest in celebration & watch as the light dances off its rich, amber color. Enjoy a beautiful bouquet of soft caramel & biscuit before the first sip blankets your palate.
Millstream Oktoberfest (5.7% ABV): This beer is balanced between the desires to have a drinkable beer and one that is strong enough to survive the long summer months in the cellar. Millstream's Oktoberfest is similar to their Munich style Schild Brau Amber, but it has more flavor, it is maltier, and darker in color. A truly special beer to celebrate the harvest, an important part of life in Amana.
West O Westoberfest (5.0% ABV): Copper color, creamy white head. Biscuit aromas from kilned malts and a hint of caramel. Slight hop aroma from a late kettle addition of Mt. Hood hops. A balanced, drinkable Märzen-style lager.
Reunion Brewing Märzen (5.5% ABV): Grab your partner and a stein of this traditional German festbier. Rich, bready Munich malts, herbal hops, and clean lager yeast give us a reason to live everyday like its a celebration!
Keg Creek Oktoberfest (5.5% ABV): This Oktoberfest is a southern German inspired Festbier much like the old Marzenbiers. Keg Creek's is a beer that is malty, but not too heavy; perfect for fall. Unfiltered, so you get to enjoy the flavor of the balance of malt and hops!
Import Oktoberfests:
Paulaner Oktoberfest Märzen (5.8% ABV): An amber beer style that was developed over 200 years ago to celebrate the original Oktoberfest. The Märzan name comes from "March beer" because it was historically brewed in March to be at peak flavor for the Oktoberfest celebration.
Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest (5.8% ABV): Forbidden as it was to brew in summer, a stronger beer - the Märzen - was brewed earlier in March. This age-old recipe is gloriously smooth, honey-colored and all is brewed with due reverence to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516.
Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier (6.0% ABV): This golden Oktoberfest lager is the only beer served in Paulaner Oktoberfest tents in Munich. It also happens to be the best-selling Oktoberfest beer in Germany.
Ayinger Oktoberfest (5.8% ABV): Rich, amber-golden color. Deep, inviting, malty nose and bready, wonderful flavor that's an ode to barley. Medium to big body, with a touch of warming alcohol on the finish. Soft dryness from long maturation.
Erdinger Oktoberfest (5.7% ABV): This masterpiece of the brewer's art is ideal for parties! Erdinger Oktoberfest expertly combines smooth malt aromas with a pronounced hop bitterness. This well-balanced flavor is complemented by gently sparkling carbonic acid to give it the typical liveliness of a genuine wheat beer. Smooth, strong and irresistible - brewing traditional at its finest.
Warsteiner Oktoberfest (5.9% ABV): A truly German import brewed according to the German Purity Law, as are all Warsteiner beers, in limited quantities, especially for Oktoberfest celebrations. This special edition has a well-balanced, mild and smooth taste with a uniquely soft, hoppy aftertaste.
Spaten Oktoberfest (5.9% ABV): Created in 1872, this is the world's first Oktoberfest beer, brewed for the greatest folk festival in the world. It's impeccable taste balances roasted malt flavor with the perfect of hops and underlying sweetness, true to tradition.
Pumpkin Beers:
Samuel Adams Jack-O (4.4% ABV): Jack-O's cinnamon and nutmeg aromas recall memories of freshly baked pumpkin pie. It has the ideal balances of seasonal spices with a crisp, refreshing finish. This pumpkin ale pairs perfectly with the transition of summer into cooler days and nights.
O'Fallon Pumpkin (5.6% ABV): Don't be fooled by mere pumpkin flavor... this is the real McCoy! O'Fallon uses sooo much real pumpkin in their mash that it adds hours to the lauter, but the result is incredible. They season their beer with fresh cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove to give this wonderful seasonal beer its uncanny "Pumpkin Pie in a Bottle" taste. This beer continues to be our most popular seasonal offering, so we know it won't last long.
O'Fallon Vanilla Pumpkin (5.5% ABV): O'Fallon decided to add some locally produced cold-pressed Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla to their most popular seasonal! It tastes like a slice of pumpkin pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it!
Backpocket Pumpkin Porter (6.5% ABV): This dessert porter is not your typical pumpkin beer, robust with fall spices and hints of graham cracker, vanilla, and squash.
Backpocket Pretzel Stout (6.2% ABV): A rich stout blended with pretzels and peanut butter.
Elysian Night Owl (6.7% ABV): Ale brewed with pumpkin & pumpkin seeds & fermented with spices.
Prairie Artisan Pumpkin Pie Treat (5.5% ABV): Sour ale with pumpkin pie spice blend and toasted marshmallow flavor.
Ciders:
Ace Pumpkin Cider (5.0% ABV): Ace pumpkin is perfect for the pumpkin lover that just can't get enough. Ideal for Halloween and Thanksgiving, this cider pairs well with turkey or ham!
Wilson's Apple Cider Donut (6.0% ABV): This fall flavored cider tastes like a visit to the the orchard on a crisp Saturday morning! This apple cider donut cider tastes like and also pairs well with an apple cider donut!
Wilson's Raspberry Cider (5.0% ABV): One of the fall seasonals from Wilson's - Raspberry.
Wilson's Caramel Apple Cider (5.0% ABV): This semi-sweet cider is the perfect beverage to enjoy while dipping your own caramel apples.