Sly Fox Brewing Company Helles Golden Lager

Helles Golden Lager

 

Sly Fox Brewing Company in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Helles Regular
Score
6.23
ABV: 4.9% IBU: 18 Ticks: 43
A German-style golden lager brewed with imported German pils malt and Saaz and Hallertau hops. This light-bodied beer offers a gentle, dry finish. A perennial favorite in the Sly Fox pubs and our brewer's go-to session beer.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can from Booths, Media City. Hazy pale golden coloured with next to no head. Has a bit of fruit in its nose, fused with lager malt, and some citrus activity in its taste alongside some yeasts.

Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2016 at 17:24


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Whole Foods London Piccadilly. It pours clear golden with a decent white head. The nose is soft, sweet, bready action, dough, cereal, pale and a bit pissy. The taste is crisp, clean, light bitterness, sweet doughy malts, creamy, cereal, fresh lemon, grassy, earth and light metallic twang with a smooth, dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Well rounded and good drinkability. Very nice lagery action.

Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2015 at 15:30


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a slightly hazy golden yellow color with a decent transparency about it. Streams of carbonation rise at a moderate pace to fill a sly rapidly dissipating head. Leaves some light lacing roaming here and there.
The smell starts with a sweet wheat and runs into a light little kick of spice as it warms. Semi-grassy but crisp and refreshing breadiness.
The taste grabs the sweet wheat and combines it nicely into the spice, adds a little breadiness and blends into the aftertaste. There’s no finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a purely wonderful sessionability about it. Carbonation is light and gentle but still good for the style and for me.
Overall, as a Munich Helles lager, there’s nothing wrong with it. Its good and I would definitely have it again.

Tried on 10 Jun 2015 at 14:58


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

Can @ home. Lightly hazy pale yellow color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, lightly wheat, a hint of yeast, lightly hayish and a soft hint of bitter in the finish. Soft carbonation, soft mouthfeel, average body. Easy drinkable low ABV beer. Not bad.

Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2015 at 15:17


6.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Crisp, very golden coloured body with a clear glow and a thick, four centimetre tall white head. Aroma of pale malt, alcohol, lemons and a bit of funk. Light-bodied; Strong lemony flavour up front with a hint of bitterness, some very light hops, a crisp apple flavour and the very slightest hint of metal. Aftertaste shows very light and airy flavours with the malt and lemons commanding the most taste. Overall, a nice and very refreshing and easy-drinking beers that still shows a lot of character and depth, especially for the style. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Lebanese Taverna market in Arlington, Virginia sampled at home in Washington on 27-September-2014 - Thanks Kevin!

Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2014 at 23:03


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3

Poured from a can at total wine and more in mclean va. It is a golden pour with a slight head it has the aroma of malt and the taste is malty and hoes slight bitter sweet

Tried from Can on 19 Sep 2014 at 16:25


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

From a can. Pours a clear pe gold with a white head. Bready nose. Flavors of light butterscotch. Clean crisp finish.

Tried from Can on 19 Sep 2014 at 16:24


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Sampled on draft at Hou Thou this beer poured a yellow-gold color with a small fluffy white head that faded quickly but left decent lacing. The aroma was faintly tangy and citric with a hint of bread. The flavor was tangy, tart and citric with a bit of bread dough, sour malts and artificial sugar. Medium length finish. Medium body. Pretty awful.

Tried from Draft on 11 Jul 2014 at 19:56



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

Tastes like the style. I can never put my finger on it, but has that caramelized, sugary malt. Finishes a little sweet. Pours golden with ok head and lacing. Finishes with some barley crispness. On tap at DC Beer Festival.

Tried from Can on 15 Apr 2014 at 13:48