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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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap @ Lucky Joe’s Fort Collins. Crushed a pint of this with the Bear Jew after celebrating another Cubs loss and checking out the student bodies. Clear yellow appearance with a fairly lasting white head. A lot of grainy / straw / hay notes in the notes with some sweetness and light candy. There’s a bit of spicy hops in the flavor and it’s a fairly crisp flavor but it does have a bit more sweetness than I’d like in a Helles. Bready and grainy. A little bit of lemon. Ok but really another ho-hum lager offering from NBB.
Earlier Rating: 10/6/2013 Total Score: 3.2
Tap @ Black Bottle. Pours a clear golden appearance with a white head. Corn, sweet malty, light lemon, a bit spicy aroma. A bit tangy, chewy grainy, slightly sweet, herbal, hay flavor. OK.
Earlier Rating: 10/6/2013 Total Score: 3.2
Tap @ Black Bottle. Pours a clear golden appearance with a white head. Corn, sweet malty, light lemon, a bit spicy aroma. A bit tangy, chewy grainy, slightly sweet, herbal, hay flavor. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2014
at 17:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours clear,pale gold with a hint of green...tall, foamy white head. Aroma is faintly grainy malt.....honey. Taste is honey, lemon, grains, grass. Light and easy drinking...fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2014
at 15:32