Pounder from Appalachian. No date. Chilled & ready for my pint glass at home. Tall & sticky, lingering bleached head. Half hazy, medium pale gold. Very soapy, floral nose; too soapy. Semi-sweet apple, orange, light floral honey, nectar, strong acid, decent co2, thin, baby powder finish. Almost good.

Hazy blond colour, untypical tropical nose, citrussy, light malty. Esu drinkable nd refreshing but not a typical Helles

Postmodern hoppy Helles of sorts (classified here as IPL), brewed in Bavaria by what is one of the relatively scarce progressive (U.S.-inspired) craft breweries there, but also one of the most successful of Germany. From tap at the New Year’s reception of the Ghent beer club. Huge, foamy, snow white, very moussey and dense, creamy head on a misty pale straw blonde robe with greenish tinge. Aroma of drying white bread, field flowers, dry hay, grass, unripe pear, wet flour, gypsum, green apple peel note. Quite fruity for this style, with hints of ‘green’ fruit like unripe pear and green banana, though obviously not as estery as a classic top-fermented beer; medium carb, supple and somewhat creamy body, supple pale maltiness, white-bready and cereally, sweetish in a subdued way, rounded, in the end bittered by herbal (thyme, parsley) and very floral hops, providing an elegant light bitterness, very soft and gentle as it ought to be in this genre – while pale malt sweetishness prevails. A bit yeastier and hoppier than the more classic examples of the Helles style (think Paulaner Original Münchener Hell, Löwenbräu Münchener Original or Hofbräu Münchener Original) and in that sense indeed related to IPL, but still restrained enough to qualify as a true Bavarian Helles too so ending up somewhere in the middle between both styles – in any case a perfectly streamlined lager that goes down like water…

Keg Borefts 23 2023-09-22 Bodegaven AR: juicy, tropical fruity, bread AP: pale clear golden, frothy white foam F: juicy, tropical fruity, bread

Tangerine, biscuit malt, orange peel, and grass aroma. Hazy paley yellow with small white head. Very sweet orange-lemon, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter orange peel/grass flavor. Good body.

Canned (from K-Market Kapteeninkatu, Vaasa). Yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruity, some grassy, herbal and bready tones. Flavour is floral, some elderflower, grass, bready and herbal tones. Much more fresh tasting than Helles.

Optisch hellgelb und kräftig opaltrüb mit kräftiger Perlage. Die weiße, feinporige Schaumkrone hält scheinbar ewig. Im Duft sehr fruchtig und zitrusartig mit Noten von Orange, Pomelo und Grapefruit. Der Antrunk wirkt ebenso sehr fruchtig zitrusartig, mit etwas unerwarteter Säure und kräftiger Herbe. Am Gaumen setzt sich diese Aromatik fort und bläht sich dabei regelrecht auf. Superfruchtig, tolle frische Zitrusnoten und dazu die deutliche Herbe. Der Hopfen leistet da volle Arbeit! Schade, dass die Malzkomponenten dabei beinahe gänzlich verschwinden. Diese winken nur ganz leicht aus dem Hintergrund hervor. Aber insgesamt betrachtet, echt toll! Mundgefühl und Drinkability sind richtig gut und es macht Spaß, dieses Bier zu trinken. Im Nachtrunk wirken die fruchtigen Noten gut nach und weichen zunehmends den herben, leicht harzigen Noten, die immer mehr in eine leichte Trockenheit übergehen.

Lots of grapefruit here, but tastes more like a bretta grapefruit. Not sure this beer survived the trip across the pond in good form. Pours golden with decent head. Crackery grapefruit snappy bitter in finish, a decent dose of sourness. Can.

At Borefts , light hazy pale gold, grapefruit and pomelo, light but noticable malty backbone, a bit of wax, medium empathic bitterness. Really good.