Lukas

330ml bottle; BB 19th Dec 19. Drank at home on 7th April 19. Nothing to get excited about here, just a good standard Helles all round. Bright golden pour, white crown of fading white foam. Grainy aroma with a bread and malty lead in the taste, refreshing with a slightly drying finish

Keg @ Coracle, Ironbridge. Pours clear gold, small white cap. Aroma is lightly sweet, buttery. Clean on the palate, soothing gently sweet helles malt, a touch bready, some straw, dry with a light bitterness. Good sessionable helles.

Tap. Malty aroma, bready and grainy notes, hay. Tastes the same as aroma, light to medium bitter. Light to medium body, malty bittter finish. Ok.

Vycap damian. Vôňa chmelovo kvasinkova. Farba bledá zlatista. Chuť jemne chmelena. Osviežujúca.

Thornbridge, being among the first modern English brewery to venture into decidedly non-English beer styles (and as such laying the foundation for the English craft beer movement) does not even eschew the old Münchener Helles style apparently... Bottle from Geers in Ghent. Thin, egg-white, opening and somewhat loosely moussy, opening, non-lacing head over hazy straw golden beer with olive greenish tinge. Aroma of soggy sourish grains, leeks, chalk, baking soda, dried out white bread, something vaguely sulfuric (egg yolk), celery, green algae, withering cut flowers, green banana. Lightly fruity onset with subtle green apple and unripe banana accents, fizzy carbonation with a lot of minerally side flavours, crisp, with a rounded, cereally, white bready and lightly ‘sourdoughy’ malt body dried by straw- and leek-like hops providing a floral, ‘greenish’ note but only soft bitterness – as is custom in a Helles. Still this hop bitterness lingers a bit more than I am used to from a Helles – the influence of the American craft beer movement I think… Chalky and vaguely sourish notes in the finish, too. Perfectly drinkable, a quenching, simple blonde beer as a Helles should be, but perhaps a tad too hoppy if you really want to go nitpicking about style assertions.

330ml bottle. Clear straw colour with a thin white head. Sweet grassy aroma, flavour is dry, grass, malt and a little spice. Decent

Keg at Beaverex '18, day one, 07/09/18. Pale golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is toasted grains, straw, pale malts, light citric notes. Taste comprises cereals, crisp and clean, pale malts, light breads, lemon rind. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent lager.

Tap. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is sulphuric, parmeggiano, cheesy feet. Taste is the same. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Not great aroma, okay flavour.