Helios Dortmunder Golden Lager
Hoyne Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.27
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
473ml can. Pours a clear gold amber with a small, foamy, short lived, white head that leaves curtains of lace. Mild aroma of toasted grainy pale malt and floral hops. Sweet flavour of toasted bready pale malt and spicy hops in a crisp, dry, mild bitter finish. Light to medium body with a smooth, slightly oily texture and average carbonation. Malt forward, pretty standard for the style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle, found up island. Pours with good bleach white head and medium gold body with very little carbonation. Smells of sweet funky cabbage with a bit of brown sugar infused cardboard. Flavour is muddy cardboard. The whole thing is wet, pulp and paperish with some honey tea on the back end. Kind of low effort any way you look at it.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Helios Dortmunder Golden Lager from Hoyne Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Did not want to form a head. I saw it was pouring flat, gave it a more aggressive dumping, and just nothing happened but a few bubbles. But the colour is on point, a nice deep rich gold. The aroma has a fair bit of pale malt richness, along with a slightly grassy continental hop. Medium body, towards the full end (which is right for a dortmunder), bringing a balance between clean pale malts, a restrained hop bitterness. A touch of hop dryness and character carries through to the finish. The malts could be breadier, but the hop balance is just right, showing through while leaving the malt to be the star. All told, this is a pretty good dortmunder.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of toasted biscuity malt. Flavour is along the same lines, with toasted biscuity malt and a gentle dry hopping to provide balance. Clean and refreshing, it drinks well. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at Alibi Room, Vancouver
Hazy light amber color with small creamy head. Dry, smooth, very bready, and nothing else. I had higher expectations on this one...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Updated Mar 2019. On tap. Nothing similar to the original. Now pretty boring. Original 2014: 650 ml bottle. Pours a clear clear gold with moderate head. Aromas of flowers, grain, and corn. Deep flavors of fresh bread, toast, and malt extract. 7/4/9/4/14