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Märzen or Maerzen is a traditional pale lager, the origins of which go back to at least the 17th century. Pale lager is a very pale to golden -coloured Beer with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness Brewed at the end of the brewing season in March (German: März), it was a stronger beer intended to last through the summer months. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.

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Ayinger Oktober Fest Märzen
Ayinger Oktober Fest Märzen

The German style is most often characterized by a medium to full body, a malty flavour balance, a wide range of colours, and a clean dry finish, though wide variations are notable amongst German breweries marketing Märzen. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Malting is a process applied to Cereal grains in which the grains are made to Germinate by soaking in water and are then quickly halted from germinating further Amongst these variations are colors ranging from pale to dark brown. [1]

The North American style normally exhibits a stronger, though not aggressive, hop aroma and bitterness balance. The Austrian style closely resembles a Helles in color, body, and flavor balance, and is the most popular beer style in Austria. Pale lager is a very pale to golden -coloured Beer with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich [2]

Common names for Märzen include:

Beer styles related to Märzen include:

Historical background

In All About Beer, author Graham Lees describes the historical background of the style:

  What Dreher achieved by the end of the 1830s was a beer that combined the clean palate and crispness of a lager with the paler hues he had admired in English ales. Pale lager is a very pale to golden -coloured Beer with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness Pale lager is a very pale to golden -coloured Beer with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness Vienna lager is a style of Lager Beer. It was developed by brewer Anton Dreher in Vienna in 1841. His marriage and adaptation of techniques produced a new style of beer-methodically bottom fermented and a copper-reddish-brown color. The precise recipe and flavor is not recorded and, in any case, he may have refined his new beer over several years. For instance, it is unclear whether he isolated a particular yeast at the beginning. Dreher called his new beer Schwechater Lagerbier, after the Vienna suburb home of his brewery, and its popularity grew rapidly-giving him the last laugh over those ridiculing rivals. Generically, Dreher's beer may for a time have been dubbed Wiener Typ (Vienna style) after his malting process, which produced a reddish caramelized crystal malt, but the enduring name for his style is Märzen. Ironically, the name was coined 30 years later by Josef Sedlmayr, younger brother of Gabriel. Although bottom-fermenting techniques had swept across Europe by 1870, beer color in Bavaria had remained dark (Dunkel). But in 1871 Josef Sedlmayr, who had separated his brewing activities from Gabriel years earlier, decided to produce a slightly paler beer. Perhaps because of the old Sedlmayr-Dreher link, he chose to brew a reddish "Vienna style" beer. He called it Märzenbier because he had brewed it in March, although it was September before he broached the first barrels for public judgment. Traditionally, Bavarian brewers had produced large batches of beer in March and April before the weather got too warm for brewing and then stored it in cool places to use during summer. But by the 1870s this practice was becoming obsolete with the development of mechanized refrigeration. This was also a time of railroad development, which enabled tens of thousands of Bavarians to travel to the Munich Oktoberfest. Whether Josef intended his new Märzenbier for the festival is unclear, but it became the Oktoberfest beer style for the next 100 years and its popularity spread. The style faded in Vienna after World War I. Sadly, Märzen has in recent years been supplanted at the Oktoberfest by a paler, less robust "Oktoberfestbier" to suit broader international tastes. But even this beer still retains a deeper amber color than the average lager beer.

—Graham Lees, All About Beer[3]

Style notes

According to Deutscher Brauer Bund - translated from German

Märzen
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Märzen is classified as a "Strong Full Beer" and should not be confused with "Strong Beer". Pale or dark Märzen, as the name indicates, is traditionally brewed in Bavaria in the month of March with high alcoholic strength to preserve it through the warmer summer months to end of the brewing season.
Original Gravity ºPlato: min. 13 °Plato - Oktoberfestbier min. 13. 5 °Plato
Region: Predominant in Bavaria and Baden Württemberg
Classification: Full Beer
ABV: 4. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states ( Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as abv or ABV) is a standard measure of how much alcohol ( Ethanol) is contained in an Alcoholic beverage 8% - 5. 6%
Type: Bottom Fermented
Characteristics: Soft, ambertones, rich body, strong, mild hop bitterness
Optimal Drinking Temperature: 8 - 9° Celsius [4]

Producers

Märzen is an extremely popular style in many lager-producing countries, and is produced as a seasonal special (usually for the autumn) by a great many breweries around the world. The Celsius Temperature scale was previously known as the centigrade scale.

Germany

Austria

United States

Other countries

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References

  1. ^ Bierspezialitäten. Schloss Eggenberg is an Austrian Brewery located in Vorchdorf, Upper Austria. The Abita Brewing Company is a Craft brewery located in Abita Springs Louisiana, 30 miles north of New Orleans The Boston Beer Company ( is an American Brewing company founded in 1985 by Jim Koch in Boston Massachusetts, USA. Clipper City is the name of a Baltimore Maryland Brewery. The brewery was established by Hugh Sisson in 1995, after previously operating Gordon Biersch Brewery is an American Brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch Known as the "Little brewery in Shiner" the Spoetzl Brewery is an American brewery located in Shiner, Texas that is wholly owned by the Baltic Beverages Holding is a beer Holding company owned by Carlsberg Group. Ožujsko beer ( Ožujsko pivo) is a Croatian Lager beer, which is produced by the Zagrebačka pivovara (Zagreb Brewery since 1893 Märzen. Deutscher Brauer Bund. Retrieved on 2006-11-02. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000
  2. ^ The New World Guide to Beer, Michael Jackson page 193, ISBN 0-7475-0227-7
  3. ^ Lees, Graham (March 1996). Stylistically Speaking. Märzen. All About Beer Online. Retrieved on 2006-09-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the
  4. ^ Bierspezialitäten. Märzen. Deutscher Brauer Bund. Retrieved on 2006-11-02. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000
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