Helicon Brewing
Microbrewery
in Oakdale,
Pennsylvania,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Helicon Brewing
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5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap @source. Pale. Nice clean mild sweet perfume nose. Good sizzling CO2. Seems to have an old country pils bite to it. Not bad, quite refreshing. Medium sharp pilsner finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jan 2017
at 15:28
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
If you like IPA, ignore the numbers, I do not like it and I don’t like to be the first to rate a strong ale for a new brewer, I am not qualified. If you like IPA that is large & in-charge, you need to sample this brew, it should be classified as a triple IPA and carry a rating of 4.8 in its style. It is so impressively bitter and on style its pathetic. Starting from the aroma of a strong gentle muscular feminine frame, to the thickly hazy pale appearance, to the long terribly on style over the top bitter impressions near the finish. In the end it is a kick ass warming brew. If you like imperial strong IPA, you must go out of your way to try this. If you are a lager lover like myself, stay away, it will ruin your buds for a couple of hours and will be a life changing experience.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2017
at 14:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap source. This beer was so good that it startled me and I tried to walk thru a pane of glass when I left, no lie. Thank you Tera for wiping my nose mark off the glass. Served in a sniffer with a real big red raspberry in it. Aroma is not artificial, real raspberry fruit smell. Initial impressions of well timed cutting co2. Look is clear reddish orange, quite aesthetically appealing. The taste is mild raspberry but its definitely making a statement. Not over the top, like so many others, in the fruit bucket. Well, balanced, it never lets you forget it is not a wheat ale, its really a witbier, thank you. Sticks nicely to the white beer style with just enough real fruit to make it interestingly unique. Not quite fermented totally out. Nice job, overall good witbier impressions bordering on berliner wiess but never gets there. Refreshing in the finish. Don’t like real fruit in my beer but I found this one large red sweet raspberry a welcomed ending.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Dec 2016
at 14:59
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Hazy pale with an ever so slight tart impressions on the nose. Decent sizzly co2 as well. Taste is rather friendly at first then it goes hoppy almost bitter. Yes, hops start to sink in, fer sure. IBU has to be more than stated here, must be at least 35 or 40, hehehh. The stout is rated at 40, and this is much more bitter than that, go figger. But what evh - it’s a keller. Yes, not a fan of keller but almost as good as Leikeim Kellerbier, Kulmbacher Mönchshof Kellerbier, Weihenstephaner 1516 Kellerbier or even Höss Holzar-Bier
Tried
on 08 Dec 2016
at 15:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Listed as a stout but could be a sweet stout from my experience. I liked this pour from th’start. It’s a very enjoyable brew, commencing with a friendly stoudty aroma. Fer sure this is not an impy stout, the nose knows. It wants t’be totally amicable. Good alabaster head makes it even more appealing, even before I taste it. Not totally black, but its in charge with its dark almost undetectable red attitude. Does have a little bitty hint of that ever black rose colored maroon in the eye. First taste is yummy tasty stout, good co2 as well, unique for a stout, but I like it! Yes, friendly and easy and very coolly balanced as well. Easily enjoyable and, may I say; satisfying. Finishes with just a tad of that old world dew damp wet, previously charred, in a hot campfire, wood. Now, this is what stout is all about, frahget about those blasted impy BS stouts, heheheh. Nice job helly. Liked. Will have another.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2016
at 14:54
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Tap @ source. Dear reader, I am not an expert beer rater so if you are looking for a real connoisseur’s opinion, ignore this. I always hate being the first to rate a new brewery’s brew. Especially since I rate by personal taste rather than style. BTW, I’m not much of an imperial stout liker. Look is big and black, large and in-charge. Traditional imperial stout aromas; sweet and roasty. Big impy stout first impressions, on target for the style. Roasty toasty fer sure with some of that damp old partially burned campfire wood effects. Likewise on the finish. In the end this stuff is perhaps a little more civilized than most local impy stouts. Comes across more like a very good dry stout, yes, and more acceptable than most impy stouts. Not quite as good as Voodoo ManBearPig Mad Brewer Black Storm Spring House Big Gruesome (Peanut Butter Cup Coffee) or Southern Tier Blackwater Series: Choklat, but pretty good non-the less.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2016
at 08:36
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Look, I am not an IPA fan. Tap @ source. Dear reader, I am not an expert beer rater so if you are looking for a real connoisseur’s opinion, ignore this. I always hate being the first to rate a new brewery’s brew. Especially since I rate by personal taste rather than style and I don’t care for IPA. So, take my number with a grain of salt, this stuff is terribly on style. Has that slight contemporary Bo aroma but in a good way, like the Bo of your favorite mate, heheh. Slight haze on pale. Initial flavor is big hops bitter. Yes, on style fer sure. Could not ask for more if you are looking for an IPA, even borders on impy IPA territory at times. Decent co2 for an IPA, something you normally don’t have in mouth coating IPA. Leaves that traditional long bitter lingering IPA finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2016
at 08:25
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Tap @ source. Dear reader, I am not an expert beer rater so if you are looking for a real connoisseur’s opinion, ignore this. I always hate being the first to rate a new brewery’s brew. Especially since I rate by personal taste rather than style. Clear pale. Good co2. Friendly mild flowers aroma. starts off a little less bitter than expected. Some bitterness yes, but friendly none the less. As session continues, you do get some of that bitter hop thing building but the cool thing about this brew is it never tries to be an IPA. Never over the top, remains kind and cool. Yes, a very good example of a good american pale ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2016
at 08:19
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Tap @ source. Dear reader, I am not an expert beer rater so if you are looking for a real connoisseur’s opinion, ignore this. I always hate being the first to rate a new brewery’s brew. Especially since I rate by personal taste rather than style. Cloudy pale. Nice lacing. Very friendly mild fruity candy aroma. Has some attributes of a typical slight rude wheat ale. In general tho we have some sunshine in there that shines thru. Even tho it’s quite refreshing, it probably is more like a wheat ale than a golden. Yes, one of the better wheat ales I’ve had for a while, if it is one. Compared to a golden tho, not quite up there with the civility of Indigo Imp Blonde Bombshell North Country Bucco Blonde Paladin Sir Kenneth Numbers The 330 Blonde Ale Beaver Risque Blonde or Beaver Teamaker Hopped Blonde Ale. In the end, the brew seems to grow on you, not bad overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2016
at 07:40