Münchner Hell
Hacker-Pschorr in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Brewed at/by: Paulaner BrauereiLager - Helles Regular
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Score
5.86
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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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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
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
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
0,5l can from REWE Alexander Vogt in Velburg. Head is big, white, long lasting. Colour is gold, light hazy. Aroma is grainy, bit oxidized, grassy, floral. Taste is medium malty base, light grassy, herbal, oxidized touch, bit harsh bitterness, medium carbonation, nothing really tasty here, for 1€ at least nice can.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Mar 2025
at 17:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 5
Tap at Hopa. Egy vadabb péntek estén klasszik mosólagerként került alkalmazásra, mélyreható analízisbe nem bocsátkoznék inkább. Édeskék, kicsit mézes, erősen gabonás történet, hibája, hogy az édes itt-ott már-már átcsúszik bántóba. Nem tragikus, de meglehetősen semmilyen.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Würzig-malziges Helles, harmonisch und süffig, nicht zu dünn, Hopfen macht sich dezent bemerkbar, die stimmige Säure verleiht eine interessante Note. Insgesamt ordentlicher Durchschnitt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2025
at 07:26