märzenbier

plural märzenbiers

1. countableuncountableSynonym of märzen.

   I imagine that the märzenbiers of the nineteenth century looked like Free State’s—deep amber, like a medium-grade maple syrup.

   2015, Jeff Alworth, The Beer Bible, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 448

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   Technically as well as historically, there is a great deal of overlap in the specifications of märzenbier, Vienna lager, and oktoberfestbier; and brewers around the world do not apply these designations consistently on their labels.

   2011, Garrett Oliver, editor, The Oxford Companion to Beer, Oxford University Press, page 574

   These yeasts are used in the crisp, easy-drinking lagers that would become very popular in the United States as cold brewing and cold storage options improved in the 1870s, as well as straw-colored, Bohemian pilsners and the pale lagers and medium-bodied, amber-hued märzenbiers from Germany.

   2017, Alicia Underlee Nelson, “Common Ale, Enlisted Men and Hurdy-Gurdy Girls: Worlds Collide in Dakota Territory, 1738–1871”, in North Dakota Beer: A Heady History, American Palate, page 16

   Synonyms: märzen