Helles in the Tropics
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Regular|
Score
6.69
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
[12oz bottle from Albertsons, Fullerton, CA.] A flat looking, pale straw coloured pour with a ring of white head; fruity grainy aroma; fruity taste with a hint of pineapple; then a drier grainy finish. A tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2019
at 01:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
12 oz bottle from a mix pack. Aroma is chalky candy, pineapple. Pours clear pale golden with a one finger white head with decent retention. Taste is lightly bittersweet, finishing dry. Flavors of (vague) tropical fruit, grain, a bit bready. Perfect mouthfeel and carbonation. It is really crushable, as advertised.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2019
at 22:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle, 2/19/19. Clear pale gold, thin foamy white head, fair retention. Aroma of spicy, minty hops and pale malt. Taste is pale bready malt, minty hops, some grass. Medium bodied, crisp, well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2019
at 05:02
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Rather underwhelming offering, a middling helles lager mixed with incongruous tropical hop notes. Cracker malts sit on top of a modest grainy sweetness, but the back end is...weird, I guess, with pineapple-mango notes coming across too prominent for such an otherwise frail beer. Not undrinkable, but not altogether pleasant, either.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2019
at 23:22