Helles Golden Lager
von Trapp Brewing in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.53
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From the German word for “Bright”, our golden lager displays a floral hop aroma with a bready malt balance. Traditional in style, Helles is brewed with Pilsner Malt to produce a dry, snappy finish while Perle and Tettnanger hops create a spicy, herbal hop aroma. The result is an incredibly clean, yet complex, lager.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz can best by 12/11/23, drunk 8/22/23. Clear, bright golden. Large, white head falls steadily to light cover. Nose shows ample hopping with herbal and pepper notes not overdone on top of rich honey-like malts. Gentle mineral/crisp lager yeast on the clean finish. Soft and malty, with hints of almost syrupy sweetness. As gross as that sounds, I think it's just the well-extracted malt and probably forced carbonation. Am pretty spoiled that I'm usually drinking keg-conditioned helles on draught these days so this one had a little bit looser carbonation leading to a more concentrated maltiness. Still appropriately attenuated with gentle, but appropriate hop bitterness and enjoyable herbal and peppery flavors.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2023
at 21:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Pours a clear straw hue with a small white head. Grain, light malt, corn, floral notes.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Oct 2022
at 04:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Hegedorn's. Rich bready malt nose. Light lemon and herb hops. Proper helles maltiness in the nose, clean yeast. Bright, glowing golden, almost clear, with a low head. Rich and malt but light and crisp, very bready, dry finish, well attenuated and light hop bitterness. Just a kiss of hop flavor. A very authentic helles. Maybe this one could be fresher but it's still darn good. Rare to find the style done this well in the US.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Aug 2022
at 21:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster at Von Trapp. Clear golden, soft white head, lacing. Clean, grainy aroma, bread. Taste is grainy, malty, biscuity, sweet. Creamy mouth feel
Tried
on 26 May 2022
at 15:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz can. Bright, zesty hop tone. Clean, easy malt backdrop. Medium bodied, very easy drinking. Quite an excellent beer, supremely sessionable.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2021
at 02:46
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours golden with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is corn, wheat, grain. Light body, citrus, wheat, light crisp finish, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Aug 2021
at 21:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can, courtesy of mansquito. Pours gold. Grain, floral, kinda sweet, hay, lingering finish. Medium body. Not great.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2021
at 23:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz can. Poured a clear golden color with a nice medium sized, white head. Aroma was light grassy notes, really nice toasty malts, some grain. Clean and easy to drink. Solid beer. Been really impressed by this breweries offerings.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2021
at 07:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
From a 12 oz can. Pours a clear pale gold with a lasting fine white head. Aromas are of grain and a hint of lemon. Flavors are mostly sweet malts with a bit of hop bite. Very satisfying brew.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2020
at 17:30
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours amber with a bubbly white head. Aroma of yeasty dry malt. Taste has bright hops, bold malt, hints of toasted malt. Palate has light pine with continued yeast and toasted malt elements that linger on the nose. good.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2020
at 14:10