Smoked Helles
Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) in Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania 🇱🇹
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
6.32
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This lager was brewed as a tribute to our new location – Dūmų fabrikas (smoke factory). It’s an old historic warehouse that will soon be converted to our new brewery, taproom and event venue. The building is located on Dūmų street (Smoke street) in Naujoji Vilnia area, in the outskirts of Vilnius. The neighbourhood is well known for being one of the pre war Vilnius industrial centres. To this day some parts of it look like one of the Peaky Blinders shooting locations.
This pale lager was spiced up with a subtle portion of beechwood smoked german malt. It creates a slight smokiness on the nose. A small portion of Vienna malt creates a nice body to it.
We hopped this beer up with hefty amount of Bavarian Hallertau Mittelfruh hops, that impart this brew with vivid impressions of new-mown hay, sweet spices, and dried flowers.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Golden colour and small white head. Light smoked, grainy nose. Light-bodied. Grainy and smokey. A bit sweet finish. Maybe not so Helles. At brewery taproom.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
At the brew pub. Golden colour, small white creamy head. Aroma is bready, herbal and some smoky tones. Flavour is smoked, some rainy bready and some earthy tones.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and light hopy and moderate peated aroma. Light bitter smoked flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate.
mart (27297) ticked Smoked Helles from Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) 11 months ago
Suitsu väga ei saa, aga mõnusalt magus-mõru-kuiv-linnaseline laager on see küll.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes smoke, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes smoke, malt, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 14
330 ml bottle, online from Honestbrew. Pours hazed dark golden with a huge foamy head. Way overcarbed. Aroma: smoked malt, smoky bacon, some citrus, hay. Taste: light sweet & light to moderate bitter, semi-dry, beechwood smoked malts, light citrus zest. Medium body with foamy carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a shaker. Modest gusher. Cloudy pale amber colour, huge faomy off-white head, dissipating slowly and unevenly, patchy lacing. Aroma toasted and smoked malts, smoke, smoked meat, bacon, grainy notes. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, bit roast, smokey, smoked meat, spicy hops, grain, tetronasal smoke. Medium body, watery to oily texture, active carbonation, dry sweetbitter grainy aftertaste, some harshness, cardboard, dusty notes, has its shortcomings but okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle. Unclear dark golden, huge fluffy head. Smoked malt, oak, smoked black forest ham, citrus notes and grapefruit zest, hay and hops. Hoppy zesty bitterness, umami. Medium bodied, oily texture, fizzy carbonated, dry bitter smoked finish, really nice crisp / smoked Helles, too bad it has that much carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Smokey, intense woody smoked beginning. The beer is grainy neutral in the back, typical grainy Helles with a punch of great woody smoke on top. Fast fading with grainy smoked parts in the aftertaste. A very nice result in mixing these styles.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Heller, trocken rauchiger Beginn. Milde unterstützende Süße, deutlich ansteigende Herbe. Süffig, monoton, mittellanger Abgang. Okay. 9/8/9/8/8/8