WEST St. Mungo

St. Mungo

 

WEST in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Lager - Helles Regular
Score
5.84
ABV: 4.9% IBU: - Ticks: 64
Named after the patron saint of Glasgow and fellow brewer, this is our flagship Premium lager. St. Mungo is a traditional Bavarian 'Helles' lager, which makes for a complex yet very drinkable beer. Its natural carbonation and firm crisp taste perfectly counters its malty body.
 

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Flasche 0,33l: Golden, glasklar, mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; sehr süße + sehr malzige Nase, helle/eingelegte Früchte, nur dezente grasige Hopfennoten, Malz, Karamell, leichte Hefearomen, leichte malzige Bitterkeit; sehr süßer + sehr malziger Körper, helle/eingelegte Früchte, dezente grasige Hopfennoten, Malz, Karamell, cremig, mittlere Kohlensäure, leichte Hefearomen; malzig-trockener Nachgang

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2025 at 12:38


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pale lager (Helles style) by a brewery in Glasgow. Can from - I believe - the Tesco supermarket in Aberdeen. Snow white, moussey, medium thick, irregular, fairly stable head, clear deep yellow golden robe with sporadic sparkling. Aroma of fresh white bread, touch shortbread even, Grana Padano cheese (odd but not unpleasant), dry cookies, paprika powder, wet bricks, cheese croquettes even somehow. Very crisp onset, very sharp and stingy, minerally carb, painful even at first; rounded sweetish 'pure barley' white-breadiness, smooth and cereally, 'baguette'-like almost, feeling quite pure and full for the style. Minerality continues to add 'fraîcheur' and balance, while hoppiness manifests itself in a very light creamy abbey cheese-like retronasal touch and mild 'grassiness' - while indeed the pure, minerally and white-bready-malty main character remains firmly in place, as it ought to be in a Helles. Honouring the Reinheitsgebot, this Glasgowian lager ticks all the boxes of its intended style and even does so with the finesse and 'Fingerspitzengefühl' it requires - a very rare feat outside of Bavaria (where I had many a Helles last year, some of lesser quality even than this one). Very accomplished, you do not often see such a successfully detailed German style lager being made by a non-German craft brewery, especially a British one...

Tried on 05 Sep 2025 at 22:21


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

Klar gylden med hvitt skum som varer. Aroma sitrus eple gress humle malt. Smak humle sitrus gress furunål malt. Fin fylde, lett fruktig og lett bitter, godt øl. Tap på Molly Malone's, Glasgow

Tried from Draft on 16 Jun 2025 at 16:37


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

Old rating from 2011 - 330ml bottle, pours golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of fruits, biscuit, hops & malt. Moderate body. Light bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2025 at 17:50


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle 0,33ltr: Golden clear coloured brew with sweet hoppy bitternesh. Glasgow meets Bremen or Hamburg, but surely something Northern Germany.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:38


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear golden and a fine head. Ok intensity in the aroma. Decent sweetness and a moderate bitterness. Fine carbonation level. Malty, mild bread and herbal flavor. [On tap @ source]

Tried from Draft on 22 Aug 2024 at 18:37


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

Tap at West. Clear golden, low head. Dry grainy base, some caramel, good amount of herbal and earthy bittering. Medium body, dry chewy. Crispy, a hint too bisquitty.

Tried from Draft on 22 Apr 2024 at 11:32


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap. Pours clear gold with a white head. Light malt, hay, floral and corn notes.

Tried from Draft on 06 Oct 2023 at 13:56


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

On tap at Crown in Biggar - Clear gold, good top. Straight forward maltiness on the nose, decent biscuity mat taste. No arguments with this one.

Tried from Draft on 21 Aug 2023 at 17:00


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Tried on 22 Sep 2022 at 14:16