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Mount Angel Oktoberfest
Oregon's
largest Oktoberfest.
Mount
Angel, 18 miles northeast of Salem on Highway 214. Noon-midnight
Thursday-Saturday, 11 am-
8 pm Sunday, Sept. 14-17.
Uncle
Otto's Oktoberfest
Uncle
Otto on tap. Also,
Those
Darn Accordions, demented polka music and a slew of other
acts. Portland Brewing Company, 2730 NW 31st Ave., 226-7623.
5-10:30 pm Friday-Sunday, Sept. 15-17. $5. Kids under 12
free.
Rheinlander
Oktoberfest
Full
Sail, Spaten are rollercoaster rides.
Oaks
Amusement Park, foot of Southeast Spokane Street. 5-11 pm
Friday, 11 am-11 pm Saturday,
1-7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 22-24.
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Time to squeeze yourself into your lederhosen and swing your
bier steins! What began as a party for Crown Prince Ludwig
of Bavaria in 1810 has hatched an annual beer celebration.
Oktoberfest beers (often called Märzen because they
were brewed in March and stored in icy caves over the summer)
are alive and kicking, both in their homeland and here in
Oregon. Here's a brief look at the finer examples:
Spaten (Munich)-Oktoberfest
Ur-Märzen ****
Spaten brewed the first Oktoberfest lager in 1871. The
color is a harvest-moon orange shade, and the large quantities
of Vienna malt used give the brau a smell like that of baking
bread. It has a tangy malt flavor and a nice toastiness.
At 5.76 percent alcohol by volume, it'll put a little red
in your cheek.
Paulaner (Munich)-Oktoberfest
Märzen *****
I prefer this Märzen from Paulaner, Munich's other
big brewery, over Spaten's. It's so malty you almost feel
like you're chewing on grain, with a little bit of sweet
toffee flavor. This beer is a filbert-brown amber color
and smells like grain fields at harvest time. True love.
Nor'wester-Mount Angel
Oktoberfest Lager ****
The official brew of the Mount Angel Oktoberfest, it has
a dark copper color, a smooth chewy maltiness like Grape
Nuts cereal with brown sugar on it, and a tangy dry finish.
This clean lager has enough malt flavor and alcoholic warmth
to stand up to the Germans.
Widmer Oktoberfest Amber Beer ****1/2
Though much lighter than the others, this beer is perfect
for the Oregon fall. Pale gold, it has a soft, baked-bread
malt aroma with a hint of German noble hops. Caramel malt
sweetness dominates the flavor, with gossamer Munich malt
notes and a taste of Mount Hood and Tettnanger hops at the
end.
Portland Brewing: Uncle Otto's Oktoberfest Märzenbeer
****
A dark amber beer with a dry, tangy, Munich malt aroma.
The flavor has a marzipan quality, and it finishes with
a kiss of hops.
Full Sail Oktoberfest ***
The aroma of this ruddy amber lager is like that of the
dust kicked up from combines dumping grain into farm trucks.
Two-row malt is noticeable behind the Munich and caramel
malts in the flavor, and there is some hop bitterness at
the end.
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