Summer Helles
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.30
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Light, bright and easy drinking, now is your chance to drink in the festival season. First brewed to celebrate 40 years of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, it has since become Planet Bluegrass’ signature New Belgium offering (under the name Summer Bliss). This Summer Helles pours a brilliant gold, with soft, white foam. The aroma is fresh grains and honey with a spicy-herbal twang. This danceable lager carries the pleasant sweetness of pale and German Pils malts, and levels off with the light and noble bitterness of Hallertau and Tettnang hops. Summer Helles finishes crisp and dry, and is sure to refresh even the thirstiest reveler. Grab your banjo, crack a bottle and let the pickin’ shine.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Golden in color with a medium head. Aroma is biscuit, hay, very, light tinge of citrus. Taste is hay, light fruit taste with a crisp finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 06:54
9/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
A lightly hazed blonde lager with a thin white head. In aroma, biscuit aroma with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, OK. In mouth, light biscuit malt with grassy hops, light honey notes, OK.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2015
at 14:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft pour at Special Brews. Pours clear yellow color with a nearly abesent aroma. Maybe a light grain. Corny, grassy flavor with a super dry finish. Super light and super easy drinking summer style beer. Not bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Sep 2014
at 13:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Pale yellow color, almost clear, fluffy white head. Aroma of scallions! Taste is bitter and lager-like.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2014
at 13:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Sweet barley malt aroma. Clear pale gold with a moderate white head. Slightly sweet barley malt and spicy/grassy hops flavor. Body on the light side of medium, lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2014
at 16:05
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear pale golden color with a thin fizzy white head. Poor head retention. Aroma of pale malt, grain, doughy malt, herbal and mildly grassy hops. The taste is grainy malt, raw malt, earthy hops. Thin-medium bodied. Uninspiring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2014
at 18:28
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
On tap. Pours a clear pale straw color. Faint head leaves some ok lacing. Aromas and tastes are sweet cereal grain and pale malt. Finishes with some grassy hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2014
at 13:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample at the Dumb & Dumber Beer Tasting & Movie at Studio 35 on 07/20/2014: Clear bright yellow color with a medium white head that recedes steadily. Strings of lacing. Aroma of pale malt, fruit and hops. Light-bodied with flavors of toasted malt, fruit and grassy hops. The finish is fruity up front with a grassy hop aftertaste. Average overall.
Tried
from Draft
at
Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse
on 02 Aug 2014
at 21:16
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Some barley here but doesn?t come anywhere near as good as the augustiner helles I just had. Pours golden with decent head and lacing. Light astringent finish with grain. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2014
at 14:38