Constellation Helles Lager
Gravity Brewing in Budapest, Capital City of Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
Collab with: Brew Your MindLager - Helles Regular
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Score
7.05
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This clean, clear, and ultra-sessionable Helles Lager beer begins with a specialty German lager malt for its crisp profile and subtle notes of lemon sherbet. Our usual mash schedule is swapped out for a decoction – a complex, historic process that involves boiling part of the grain to build out melanoidin in the wort and lend a touch of tannic depth to the body, resulting in a beautifully complex baseline character.
German Saphir hops further amplify this brew’s soft lemon character and blend smooth bitterness into our decoction base, while the whole brew enjoys a gentle ferment and extended maturation on an ultra-classic Austrian yeast strain that evokes softly rising bread and beer halls full of ceramic steins. The result is an intensely cool and crushable lager that balances gentle depth with refreshing simplicity.
German Saphir hops further amplify this brew’s soft lemon character and blend smooth bitterness into our decoction base, while the whole brew enjoys a gentle ferment and extended maturation on an ultra-classic Austrian yeast strain that evokes softly rising bread and beer halls full of ceramic steins. The result is an intensely cool and crushable lager that balances gentle depth with refreshing simplicity.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
From draft at Constellation, Budapest, 19.02.25. Translucent pale straw colour. White head and lacing. Fine taste of pale malt, citrusy American hops, marmalade and vanilla. Very quaffable.
Tried
from Draft
at
Constellation
on 19 Feb 2025
at 20:41
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at the Gravity taproom, Budapest, 09/06/23. Clear golden with a white cap that retains well. Nose is pale malts, toasted grains, straw, hint of vanilla, cereals. Taste comprises pale and bready malts, caramel, grains, hedgerow, herb. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Tidy lager.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2024
at 16:49