Oxbow Brewing Company Grand Royal

Grand Royal

 

Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Helles Rotating
Score
7.10
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 8
Grand Royal is a Munich-style pale lager brewed with European malts and noble hops. This bright, Bavarian-born lager is our take on a style driven by technique, tradition, and simplicity. Gold in color with notes of bread dough, biscuits, fresh-cut grass, and flowers with a moderate malt sweetness, balanced bitterness, and crisp finish.
 

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8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

16 oz can. This is labeled as a Helles lager by the brewer. Aroma of grass, Noble hops, crackery malt. Taste is apple, mild hay, and ends on sweet cereal malt. Dry, crisp texture. Good body. This is the most flavorful Helles I’ve ever had. It ends a bit sweet but that is what I like about it.

Tried from Can from Greg & Jane's Beer and Wine on 05 Jan 2026 at 22:12


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Slightly dark golden yellow pour fr bottle with white foam. Some crustiness and sweetness pretty good

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 02:06


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Bine & Vine. Pours clear gold with a persistent creamy white head. Aroma is Noble hop with mildly bready support. There's a fresh green aspect. Med body. Just slightly sweet. Flavor matches the aroma. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 15 Oct 2024 at 23:35


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can in MV. Cheers to Duke! Pours clear yellow-gold with a small, creamy white topping. Light-medium sweet flavour with lightly doughy biscuits, cereal, straw. Light bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Pretty clean finish, more biscuity malts, mellow bitterness. Easygoing and very drinkable.

Tried from Can on 18 Aug 2023 at 16:48


8.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Canned 10/1/21, drunk 10/17/21. Bright, clear, copper-golden with a large, well-retained, white head. Beautiful, malt-rich nose of honey, sourdough (light), sugar cookie, earth and mineral and lightly floral, peppery hops. Beautiful in the mouth, as well, as peppery, lightly bitter hops match the malty, yet dry and medium body perfectly. Honey, a dollop of caramel, rustic grains and a long mineral, floral and pepper finish replete with alternating waves of creamy honey-like maltiness and pleasingly bitter, peppery hops. Exquisitely clean. Watery on the end, slightly, but it's endearing and matches the extreme drinkability of the beer's slightly lighter body. Definitely a crusher, but a clean, highly flavorful, balanced and enjoyable one.

Tried from Can on 17 Oct 2021 at 22:17


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at the Portland location. Pours gold. Cereal, noble hop spice, herbal, clean finish. Medium body. Decent.

Tried from Draft on 04 Sep 2020 at 00:25


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft at Washington Ave, pours a dark orange with a little haze, cloudy white head.  Nose has malt, honey, flowers, some orange.  Flavor has honey, sweet dough, flowers, a little yeast.  The sweetness reminds me of a maibock almost.  Finishes off dry.  7 3 6 3 12

Tried from Draft on 28 Jul 2020 at 20:29


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bricolage, can: pours gold with white head. Aroma is bready, lightly hoppy. Taste is lightly bitter, crisp, bright, bready. Quite good.

Tried from Can on 19 Jul 2020 at 21:49