0.5l bottle from marktkauf/edeka, in bavarian beer pack. pours a clear pale golden with a medium white head. aroma of grass, hay, cereals. flavour of grains, grass, leaves. a bit rubbery.

Specialty release from this brewery, housed next to the Schloss Irlbach; the brewery has been taken over by Arcobräu Moos meanwhile. From a 50 cl bottle that was part of a sixpack of different Bavarian beers, thanks Glenn for bringing me this straight from the Munich airport. Thick, egg-white, very regular head, lightly lacing, leaving a dense, moussy rim around the edge of the glass and a landmap-shaped ’veil’ in the middle; cristal clear, pure golden robe, warm with ’old gold’ hue. Aroma of sourish grains, dried camomile, sweetclover, wet kitchen towels, sourdough, hints of rainwater, grass, minerals, old cloth, wet paper, margarine, mashed potato, soap, white pepper. Crisp, minerally onset, some very restrained ’malt fruitiness’ and sweetish graininess right from the start with an underlying ’generic’ and very soft sourish touch, medium carbonation tingling on top of the tongue, souring a bit. The ’cereally’ malt sweetishness evolves further in the middle with a slightly buttery feel to it, a tad bready but in a ’clean’ way, while the minerally accents keep playing at the sides of the tongue; underneath the pale malt sweetness, a dull sourish graininess lurks, becoming more pronounced in the finish, where mildly grassy and floral hop notes appear as well, but subtly so, as can be expected from a malt-forward Helles. Some resinous, vaguely wormwood-like hop bitterness nevertheless lingers in the throat after swallowing. Straightforward ’Münchener Helles’ - as they all are, at least traditionally speaking - quenching the thirst and delivering what this style represents, in placing a rounded, grainy pale malt sweetness upfront and adorning it with restrained hoppy accents - but nothing more than that.

0.5l bottle from bavarian beer set in marktkauf/edeka. pours an almost clear pale golden with a medium white head. aroma of grains, hay, a hint of honey. flavour of grains, bread, butter, spices. chewy, medium body. not sure if this is any different from their other festbier variations, probably not much, but nice nevertheless.

21-01-17 // 500ml bottle at home. Pours a clear golden beer with a solid white head. Taste is medium sweet, malty, some grains, light spicy, light floral hops. Smooth. Solid.

Herb plörriger, wenig würziger Antrunk. Zunehmend trocken. Langweilig. 8/8/8/7/8/7

Bottle looks very simple but okay. Beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts milder than exspected, malty, modest dry. Light metallically notes. Finish more balanced. Could show more character, but still okay.

50cl bottle shared with 2 friends. Thin white head. Clear golden pour. Ok.