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Is in an honor to say I served with the best of the best.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Poured a golden with a frothy lacing white head. Aroma is sweet grain. Taste is sweet grain, refreshing wet although thin.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Extremely clean lagering with zero yeast notes present. Light-moderate dryness from lingering bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, moderately grainy/bready, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.2%. Overall this is a great Munich Helles! All around great robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Highly flavorful for the low ABV. Spot on style example all around. A really enjoyable offering.

4.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Mild hay nose, clean. Hazy golden, effervescent, thin head. Barley malt, lightly sweet hay, mildly tinny. Light body, moderate carbonation. Easy drinking, clean, ordinary.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Bottle Honey, biscuit malt, and straw aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Mildly sweet honey, light biscuit malt, and mildly bitter straw/grass flavor. Very light body. A bit hoppier than a macro but otherwise not much of an improvement.

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

12 oz. bottle. Color is a slightly hazy gold, thin lasting head. Aroma corn, rice and some yeast.

Taste is of a massed produced lager. Corn / rice adjunct with a weak (and I mean weak) hop bitterness in the finish. The body is thin and watery, yet not a total waste. Yet, maybe they need to speak to a brewer like Jacks Abby if they want to attempt a highly hopped, well executed hoppy lager.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle: Clear, yellow-gold with a white head. Grain malt, corn, honey aroma. Light grain malt, mild grass flavour. A little sweet......sort of middle of the road, overall. Nothing off....just a little bland.