I love beer.  But of all my favorites, Oktoberfest never fails me.  Strongly suggested by the guy at my beer store, I picked up a six-pack of Hacker-Pschorr.

It's like unicorns and rainbows in a bottle.  Poured into a glass.

It's a full-bodied beer, medium caramel color, very smooth.  5.8% alcohol, it doesn't have a strong alcohol taste like I've had with some other Oktoberfests.

There's this nose to it though.  I couldn't put my finger on it.  Then it struck me.  When I was a kid, I was on an iced tea kick.  Not any iced tea, but the Lipton powdered stuff with the sugar and lemon flavor.  When I'd open the can, the dust inside would waft out.  It's a very distinct smell for me, and this beer has it for one reason or another.  I wouldn't call it a tea-smell.  More like a freeze-dried tea-and-fake-lemon smell that only smells that way to me because I have that frame of reference.  This is not a bad thing, that was a good time in my life...this beer takes me back with every sip.  To someone without this odd bit of smell memory going on, it'd probably smell like...well, I don't know what smells like that.

I'm going to shut up now.  I have five more beers to drink.