For the Company
Bluejacket in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.76
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The name is from a Mark Twain quote, "Heaven for the climate, hell for the company” – Helles is a sessionable beer, meant to be consumed by the liter in Bavarian biergartens with good company. For this beer, our traditional german-style pale lager is step-mashed, gently hopped with loral, matured in our cellar for 5 weeks and naturally carbonated.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours clear straw with a white head. Aroma is corn. Taste is light malt, grass, corn, floral notes.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tap99
on 03 Nov 2025
at 23:16
7/10
Tried
on 16 Sep 2025
at 20:25
6/10
Draught at bluejacket. Pretty decent plain lager. Grass etc. Not much else to say
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at the brewpub, with Mattijhs, Mads and Dario, 6th March 23. Very sunny day in the beer terrace. Pours clear with a slight haze. Aroma is grass and hay. Taste is bitter l, grass, straw, excellent
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2023
at 18:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the brewpub. Cloudy golden with medium white head. Malty, bready, light herbal notes, light sweetness, tad bitter. Light to medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Arsenal at Bluejacket
on 15 Nov 2021
at 19:44
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the Grand Delancey. Pours pale clear gold with a frothy head. Grain, lemon, stone fruit, herbal, orange zest. Clean refreshing body. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2021
at 22:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very good example of a helles lager. The aromas are slightly sweet pale malt with a hint of hops. Flavors are like nose, again slightly sweet up front but nicely balanced with carbonation and a little bitter. Good body and finish. Nice drinking beer.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2021
at 00:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at the source: pours clear gold with small head. Aroma is biscuit, grain. Taste is biscuity, some sweetness, some grassy hop. Solid.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2020
at 21:59
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Well drinkable helles. Great out here in the Yards park. Crisp and nice hops profile. Golden pour with good head. Crisp finish. Tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jun 2020
at 22:11
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Super crisp golden coloured body with a light pure white head, only a centimetre tall. Aroma of very fresh European/German hops with a nice Saaz kick and some light citrus notes with a dash of biscuity malt and a good amount of noticeable yeast scents. Light-bodied; Sharp pungent grassy and herbal flavour at first with a bunch of biscuit and light earthy malts showing some peated notes, but mainly a clean layer of malt with a good fresh hop bite that shows a good deal of alpha acids, some light herbal elements, but a fairly dry beer that is limited to the hop and malt notes. Aftertaste is dry with a lot of herbal and grassy notes and a touch of the citrusey characteristic from the European hops. Overall, a nice and floral, grassy and fresh-flavoured light lager that has a good deal of malt-based flavours that shows some perfume, but almost no sweetness at all throughout the beer aside from some mellow caster sugar notes way up front. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, given to me by the General Manager, after a hockey game in Arlington (Ballston), Virginia - Thanks Erik!
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jan 2020
at 22:00