Helles Lager
Ardent Craft Ales in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.62
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Ardent’s Helles was brewed in the traditional Munich style with all German malt and hops, then lagered for more than a month, resulting in a medium-bodied, pale lager that pours a deep golden color. Helles Lager features a mild malt sweetness, balanced hop presence and crisp, clean finish.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a hazy orange with medium white head. The aroma is strong toasted grain and floral. Slick body, dry, bready malt, light crisp finish, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2021
at 01:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Deep pure clear golden coloured body with a lot of effervescence and a small, single centimetre tall just off-white head that fades quickly and leaves nothing up top. Aroma of pure lager yeast, dry grainy malts with a dash of cardboard noticeable along with some crisp lemons and citrus fruits and a light dose of caster sugar and no other fruitiness or complexities - fairly straight-forward, at least in the nose. Light-bodied; Dry, very grassy and herbal flavours dominate at first with a hint of citrus fruits and very mild sweetness, a bigger hit of flowers and grain and a pungent yeast quality that shows well throughout. Aftertaste is dry, citrusey, pungent, floral and littered with fresh-cut grass and crisp lager yeasts with a clean finish - very nice and super easy drinking. Overall, a nice and well-balanced, dry, floral and lightly citrusey/sweet lager with a nice dose of yeast at the tail end that doesn't hide anything but doesn't show any alcohol, astringency or pungency. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virignia on 06-January-2021 for US$3,99 sampled at my house here in Washington, just a few blocks away, on a warm day, 06-February-2021, just a month after purchase.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Feb 2021
at 10:04
7/10
Clear gold bod med foam wht head. Grassy pils arma. Grassy pils and bready flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/4/15 3.6
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2019
at 12:33
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft - pours yellow white head - nose and taste of soapy citrus, lemon and pine bread - medium body
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2017
at 18:13