Paolozzi Helles Lager
Edinburgh Beer Factory in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.25
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Lager. That most taken for granted, everyday of beers is actually one of the most complex from a brewing perspective, and given due care and imagination really can be sublime.
Brewed with 100% barley malt, ‘munichised’ water, and, most importantly, given a proper lagering (cold conditioning) period for 5-6 weeks following fermentation, this 5.2% abv Munich helles style lager beer has a perfect bitter-sweet balance and fabulously sparkling appearance. We don’t pasteurise our lager, so it’s extra fresh and keeps its natural fullness of flavour.
Brewed with 100% barley malt, ‘munichised’ water, and, most importantly, given a proper lagering (cold conditioning) period for 5-6 weeks following fermentation, this 5.2% abv Munich helles style lager beer has a perfect bitter-sweet balance and fabulously sparkling appearance. We don’t pasteurise our lager, so it’s extra fresh and keeps its natural fullness of flavour.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home in London - picked up at Royal Mile Whiskies (Holborn). Pours totally clear yellow-gold with a creamy, white head. The nose holds cereal, pale bread, faint metal, lemon. Light to medium sweet flavor with further cereal character, ripening citrus fruits, jammy lemon, white bread, straw. Light bodied with average carbonation and massaging texture. Sweet on the finish, with more further cereal, biscuits, lemon rind, light tangerine, some dough, hay, pale grains, slight melon. Overall, it’s an easygoing and rather tasty lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2016
at 17:53
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
9th February 2016
Clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Clean pale malts, trace of sweetness. Whispers of floralness and citrus, bare whispers. Light finish. Hardly reborn lager is it? More same old same old, clean at least.
Clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Clean pale malts, trace of sweetness. Whispers of floralness and citrus, bare whispers. Light finish. Hardly reborn lager is it? More same old same old, clean at least.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2016
at 10:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle consumed at home. It pours very lightly hazy pale yellow-gold with a small white head. The nose is soft, pale bread, cracker, mild sweetness, grainy and grass. The taste is crisp, quite clean, white bread, paper, cracker, touch of cream and grassy action with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty well-rounded for what it is. A simple, but enjoyable lager bier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2015
at 13:58
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Vino Broughton St. pours with a head. Aromas of grass, grain. Taste is astringent, something not very fresh on the finish, but ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2015
at 17:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Re-rate. This time round this had elements of the kind of Helles beer you only find in Munich. Crisp, balanced on the finish. Nose has typical sweetcorn and green bean thing going on. Great example. Previous rating on 11/03/15. 6 + 4 + 6 + 3 + 12 = 3.1 33cl bottle. Appearance - golden with a thin head and very gentle bubbles. Nose - malt, lemon and honey. Taste - more of the same. Palate - light bodied with a creamy texture and a finish that could be better. Overall - decent but could be drier on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2015
at 07:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at craig’s. Pours clear golden, nose is sweet toffee, floral, taste is sweet, floral, little grassy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2015
at 11:31
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at home... Golden amber.. Thin white lacing.. Soft grassy fruits nose.. Herbal grassy fruits
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2015
at 11:20