Münchner Hell
Hacker-Pschorr in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Brewed at/by: Paulaner BrauereiLager - Helles Regular
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Score
5.85
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Seit Jahrhunderten wird in München eine Bierspezialität gebraut, die den Charakter der bayrischen Hauptstadt in Hopfen und Malz übersetzt: das Münchner Hell. Weich und malzig, edel gehopft und himmlisch wie die Frauenkirche. Mehr München hat nicht in die Flasche gepasst.
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3.6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
o.5 bottle. Pours clear golden yellow, medium quickly dissipating snow white head. No lacing. Aroma of malt and grain, bit dull with a hint of cardboard. Medium carbonation, body medium. Also dull later, taste is light sweet, malty, cardboard. Expected more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2026
at 09:51
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Clear golden colour, medium sized dense white head; aroma pf grassy, grainy, hay some herbal hoppy and minimal metallic notes; taste of hoppy bitternes, some some herbal, bread crusty, metallic and spicy notes; enjoyable one
Tried
from Can
on 17 Apr 2026
at 00:05
5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
0,5l, bottle.
Pours clear gold with barely any white head, and even that disappears nearly instantly. Wouldn't say it's a bad beer, but it has only a faint malty aroma, barely any flavor or finish. It can be refreshing on a warm summer night, but I just couldn't really enjoy it now :/
Pours clear gold with barely any white head, and even that disappears nearly instantly. Wouldn't say it's a bad beer, but it has only a faint malty aroma, barely any flavor or finish. It can be refreshing on a warm summer night, but I just couldn't really enjoy it now :/
Tried
from Bottle
from
Hanzi's Haus
on 20 Feb 2026
at 22:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
An average münchner hell, similar than the paulaner, so refreshing during the hot night in this village, malty, hop, a bit metalic, 16.07.18, at Pettaciatto, hot.weather and a helles is always welcomed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2025
at 20:22
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Classic Münchener Helles under a classic German brand owned (and brewed) by Paulaner since 1998, but keeping the memory of the former Hacker-Pschorr brewery in München alive at least by name and logo. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Snow white, medium thick, moussey, largely stable head, clear yellow-golden blonde robe with lively visible sparkling. Aroma of spoiled chervil soup and actual withered chervil, banana peel, green cabbage beginning to rot, old white bread, wet straw, wet paper even (though apparently still well below its "best before" date, oddly). Clean, sweetish onset, rounded cereally white-bready maltiness, medium carbonated with slick mouthfeel; mild grassy and floral hop bitterish notes in the finish - soft as it ought to be in this genre - but also these unexpected and marring spoiled chervil soup and wet paper oxidation aromas ruining the delicate features of the beer. Maybe the swingtop did not protect the fine frame of the necessarily frail Helles enough, but clearly something did go a bit awry here, resulting in a few less appealing aromas. I will give this one another chance if I ever come across it again, though.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2025
at 15:46
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
5/IX/25 - 33cl flip-top bottle from a local German supermarket on my Schwarzwald trip, shared @ Alengrin’s place, BB: III/26, L653905 0259, 11784 (2025-851)
Clear light yellow beer, small creamy white head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, oxidized, hay, cardboard, some vegetables, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, malty, very oxidized, cardboard, gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: sweet touch, grains, hay, cow fodder.
Clear light yellow beer, small creamy white head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, oxidized, hay, cardboard, some vegetables, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, malty, very oxidized, cardboard, gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: sweet touch, grains, hay, cow fodder.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2025
at 19:40
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2025
at 17:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.5l can. Golden body with a white head. Aroma and taste of bread, grains, hay, sugar syrup and some floral hops. Smooth helles, OK.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2025
at 18:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Pours golden with white head. Not my favorite Helles, but eminently drinkable w/malt and grassiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 00:43
5.5/10
Średniej jakości piwo, da się wypić, ale nie ma się ochoty wracać.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2025
at 11:49