Bavarian Benchmark
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Rotating|
Score
6.83
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A light golden colored Munich Helles with doughy yeast esters and soft grain aromatics. Refreshing and clean, prominent flavors of lightly kilned pilsen malt lead into a slightly bitter finish with some pleasant grassy notes from the traditional German hops used in brewing this beer.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle. Filtered yellow-tan body. Thin white head. Approaches OK, but not that impressive overall. Some faint off tones, some pleasant doughy golden malt notes as well. Cheap, amateur.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 1/2/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with balanced bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.3%. Overall this is an awesome Munich helles! All around great robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful for the low ABV. Awesome clean Pils/Munich malt showcase, with solid noble hop presence/balance. A really enjoyable offering, and perfect style example.