6

Malty, watery, grainy, harmless

4.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Pours gold with a quickly fading head.Nose shows hay, grassy hops and grainy malt.Flavours include more hay, a soft bready note, a bit of spicy hops and a slight vegetal character.

3.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

This lager poured a bright yellow colour with a soapy, white head. Minimal lacing. Scents include cooked veggies, honey and a hint of white wine. First swig was quite thin, with flavours of metal, a little soy sauce and cardboard. Finish is grainy with a light hop bitterness lightly lingering.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2

25-06-18 // 300ml on tap at Brauhaus Henninger am Turm in Frankfurt. Clear golden. Boring dry grainy lager, mild sweetness, hints of bitterness. Watery.

6.8

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

500 ml can into lager glass, no can dating. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Okay aromas with pale malt and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. A bit fruity/yeasty, but not overwhelming. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice robustness of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Nicely clean on lager flavors, not too fruity/yeasty. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a solid Helles. All around good robustness of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; smooth, clean, and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Nicely clean pils malts with mild balancing noble hops. This feels like this has a bit of age on it, but it's enjoyable.

4.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

2.9

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

330ml bottle into glass. Slightly smoky nose. Rapidly dissipating head leaving a scummy white film on light golden beer. Watery with cardboard notes. Tinny/vegetal finish. Quite unpleasant.

3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Can. Typical lager. Straw-golden color foamy head. Light but foamy carbonation, soft thin mouthfeel. Doughy and grassy nose (mild). Grainy sweet flavors. bleh