I've never been to a proper Oktoberfest, despite having grown up in the German part of Ohio. Maybe this is what it tastes like. Samuel Adams Octoberfest is their autumnal seasonal beer, and as such a herald that the happy days of Winter Lager are coming infinitesimally closer with the death of every leaf and six-pack.

Octoberfest has bite that I can explain by waving my hands and saying "Noble hops," though your guess is as good as mine as how a hop could both be noble and bite. Beer is serious business, and Octoberfest is serious beer for eating with mixed nuts and pretzels. It reminds me of the oktoberfest scene in one of the Pink Panther movies where several assassins descend upon the deranged detective but are improbably thwarted by pretzels, beer mugs, and busty German women.

The bottle is distinctively orange, like a clever halloween costume, and the dye seeps through the bottle and colours the beer in a similar manner. It sports a purely medicinal 5.7% solution of alcohol. Do drink responsibly, perhaps with a busty German woman nearby to carry you off to bed.

A picture of the bottle is available here.