Every malt and hop in Flux Brewing Company's new Festbier was sourced from Germany. The brewery lists Weyermann Pilsner as the base, Vienna and Munich malts on top of it, and Hallertau and Tettnanger for hops.
That combination is the standard festival-lager toolkit, and the two kilned malts are what separate it from a plain pilsner. Vienna and Munich bring color and a deeper bread-crust character without pushing the beer into amber territory. Flux describes the result as a big bready malt character with a dry finish.
The hops are the quieter half. Hallertau and Tettnanger are both noble varieties, low in alpha acid and valued for aroma rather than bitterness, so their job here is seasoning rather than structure. The dry finish is where the style earns its keep: a beer with this much malt behind it could easily turn heavy, and drying it out is what keeps a second glass appealing.
The can commits to the theme. It is printed in the blue and white lozenges of the Bavarian flag, with the Flux mark set into the pattern, and the brewery's own release photo pairs it with a litre stein and a pair of lederhosen in case the reference was somehow unclear.
None of this is unfamiliar ground for Flux. A good share of the brewery's current list is lager, including a Czech lager, a Helles, an amber lager and the Corduroy darkbier, so a September Festbier is less a seasonal detour than the next item in a rotation the brewery already runs.
Flux lists the beer at 5.7 percent. It is available today on tap and in cans at the Scotland, Ontario taproom, which is open Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 9 and Sunday from noon to 6.
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