Oktoberfest

Name: Best Day Brewing Oktoberfest
Brand: Best Day Brewing

Image: The Dry Standard

82/100

The short take
Convincing Märzen character, with toasted malt and bread crust held in balance by light sweetness and gentle bitterness. The flavor is right, and it stays somewhat restrained.

Tasted 29 Sep 2026Karl Hill How we score

Serve Cold, in a mug or a pint glass.

Who it’s for A malty fall lager when you want the Märzen shape and can live with a quieter glass.

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TDS Beerprint

This pour · documented production

Bitterness Modest bitterness Firsthand tasting
Sweetness Off-dry Firsthand tasting
Made Membrane / cold filtration Producer documented

Updated 18 Oct 2026 — production method corrected.

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In the glass

Nose: Toasted malt and bread crust. The aroma is that grain, bready and lightly toasted, stated plainly. It places the beer as a Märzen without asking for a second reading.
Palate: Smooth, lightly sweet, and malty, with a bitterness that stays gentle. The malt leads. The bitterness is enough to keep the sweetness in line and not enough to take the glass over. Balance is that pairing, easy through the middle. The flavor is right for a Märzen, and it is held back.
Finish: Crisp and slightly bready. Bread crust stays, the sweetness lets go, and the close clears without growing louder. Simple, and in line with the rest of the glass.

Structure and likeness Show Hide

Structure

Sweetness: Off-dry
Bitterness: Modest bitterness

How beer-like is it?

Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.

It drinks as a Märzen: toasted malt, bread crust, and a bitterness gentle enough to leave the malt in front. The likeness is convincing. The flavor is quieter than the style usually is.

The beer

Restraint is the review. The Märzen character is convincing, and the flavor does not press.

Grain, toast, a little bread. For a dealcoholized Oktoberfest, that smell places the style at once. It is also a quiet nose. You know what the beer is. You are not asked to linger over it.

Malt sweetness leads. The bitterness answers just enough that the sweetness does not sit alone. Mouthfeel stays smooth through the middle, then turns crisp. Nothing in the texture fights, and nothing in it builds. The gentleness is why the restraint does not turn thin. There is still a malty middle. It is simply not a loud one. The balance is the success: light sweetness and a gentle bitter edge, in proportion, with the malt still in front.

What limits it is intensity. The shape is right, and the volume is low. Bread crust returns on a slightly bready finish, the sweetness lets go, and the beer clears. Cold, it is a Märzen you would drink with a meal and not one you would call loud. Recognizable, even, and somewhat restrained.

82 is typical of the 35 dealcoholized beer bottles we've tasted.

The bottle

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Cold filtration — alcohol removed by cold filtration after full-strength brewing (Best Day Brewing, Jeremy Rudolf, email 2026-10-18).

Research notes

The Best Day homepage describes Oktoberfest as a fall beer and says the brewery first brews to full strength, then removes the alcohol through technology where the beer never rises above fermentation temperature. The machine is not named. The can, read again on 2026-09-29, reads Märzen style, non-alcoholic, contains less than 0.5% alc/vol, and 12 fl oz. A side panel is a list of drinkers. It does not name a method, an ingredient, or a brewery address. The homepage product index includes a handle for Oktoberfest. The public product URL returned 404 on 2026-09-25, and the beer was not in the shop’s product catalog feed, so no pack price was read from a product page. That is not a manufacturer pack of this beer.

Where to buy

No producer purchase link on file.

Package: 12 fl oz
Typical price: $4.49 / package

Availability observations

Package	Observed listing	Price	Unit price
	Observed at NA Beer Market	$4.49 Checked 25 Sep 2026

Availability: Whole Foods, Total Wine, Fresh Market, bestdaybrewing.com (limited edition fall 2026)

Availability is market-specific; a producer link does not establish shipping to every country. Prices and availability are independently observed and may change. Retailer listings do not imply endorsement. A different package is labeled as a different format. Reader-service exceptions and commercial links are identified above; neither affects scores, rankings, classification, verification, or editorial coverage.

Product facts

Producer: Best Day Brewing
Origin: Sausalito, California, United States
Bottle / can: 12 fl oz

Sources & verification

Facts checked Oct 2026 5 primary sources Method: documented Conflicts: none Show details Hide details

Evidence at a glance

Producer documented4 facts
Bottle verified2 facts
Press sourced1 fact
Retailer sourced1 fact
Historical documentation1 fact
Unverified1 fact

Production record

The core production facts are documented and current.

Classification: Verified
Method: Named method
ABV: Ceiling declaration
Origin: Documented
Record: Current

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Sources

Producer bestdaybrewing.com
Producer documented
Note

Production
Homepage: brew to full strength, then remove the alcohol.
Bottle / can label Bottle label
- ABV
- Volume
Bottle verified
2 notes

ABV
The can, read again on 2026-09-29, prints contains less than 0.5% alc/vol. The homepage does not print this SKU’s ABV.

Volume
The can, read again on 2026-09-29, prints 12 fl oz.
Producer Producer
- Method
Producer documented
Note

Method
Temperature is kept no higher than fermentation. No machine is named. A review of earlier Best Day cans places the company in Sausalito and a Denver contract brew. That text was not on the Oktoberfest can, so no origin is stored from it.
Press brewbound.com
- Country
Press sourced
Retail listing market.nabeerclub.com
- Price
Retailer sourced
Cited source Cited source
- Availability
Historical documentation
Note

Availability
Source URL unreachable; no living replacement found on 2026-10-04.
Editorial inference bestdaybrewing.com
- Style
Unverified

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Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.

25 Sep 2026ReviewedReviewed and published.
18 Oct 2026UpdatedCatalog record updated from sourced research.
18 Oct 2026Method verified · MethodCorrected from Brewed to full strength, then alcohol removed; temperature kept no higher than fermentation (Best Day homepage) to Cold filtration — alcohol removed by cold filtration after full-strength brewing (Best Day Brewing, Jeremy Rudolf, email 2026-10-18).. Direct producer statement by email 2026-10-18: Jeremy Rudolf (jeremy@bestdaybrewing.com), introduced by Freddy Goepel. Reply to our technical information request; answer was "It is cold filtration." Supersedes the prior "not vacuum, exact technology unnamed" note.