Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Ljust gyllengul klar vätska med en gräddmjuk skumkrona. Arom av ljust bröd och lätt gräsighet. Rejält mjuk munkänsla med en närvarande maltighet som avvägs bra mot en neutral till lätt gräsig beska.

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

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from HOTM. Pours clear copper with a creamy, khaki topping. Light-medium sweet flavour with notes of toasted caramel, bready malts, a little earthy hop, crackers, biscuits. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Nice toasted biscuit and caramel finish, a little leafy bitterness, bready all around, a hint of chocolate. Really pleasant.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Notes from March 2011 Stout season is over. Hooray beer! 11.2oz bottle from Good Beer. Poured into a Carlsberg Pils glass. Pasty, off-white head. It comes to rest as a permanent dollop of cream atop my beer. Uniform spackle. Clear, pale, golden body. Smells of caramelized Euro malt & a light zest of minty/herbal/metallic hops. Bit mundane. Taste is sweet like low salt Ritz crackers. Halfway in is a spot of herbal hops that turn more irony as they linger. Empty finish. Dainty little thing. Watery. ABV is really suspect. Carbonation is soft & lacking. Probably the lightest Helles I've ever had. Not crisp enough to drink in quantity. Too light to bother to import. :/

Top Lager, da lohnt sich der erneuerte Checkin

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Half liter draft at the source, Munich, Germany. Pours a crystal clear caramel color with a tight beige head and excellent retention. Great lacing too, Faint dark malt aroma. Super clean and smooth dark malt flavor. Not as much caramel malt flavor as I expected based on the looks. Mostly dark malt, not overly sweet. Medium body and medium-light carbonation. Zero bitterness. Classic beer. Prost!

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

500 ml bottle from Bier Temple, in Linz, Austria. Pours a crystal clear yellow color with a large white head and excellent retention. Great lacing too. Lots of streaming bubbles. Standard pale malt aroma. The taste follows the nose: Pale malt flavor with a hint of bread in the finish. Super smooth and clean. Medium body and medium, lively carbonation. Not bitter. A very well made, yet basic lager. Very repeatable. Prost!

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

Bottle from Beer Shop Hitchin. Bit of an insipid colour in the glass, but a good and well balanced malt and hops flavour. But a bit insipid overall.