7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Amber colour. The aroma is hoppy with hints of breadcrust and caramel. Firm malty character leans towards caramel and metals with a healthy dose of hop dryness in the finish.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2009
at 04:44
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Swing top bottle. pale golden color. Hoppy flowery aroma. Initial malt flavors, followed by a firm flowery herbal hoppiness, lingering on in the aftertaste. Well balanced, tasty helles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2009
at 02:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Swing top bottle. Brown color. Soft smoked cheese aroma. Malty flavor with some beechwood and smoked cheese notes. In the background, but nevertheless hard to ignore. Medium bodied. Pleasant brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2009
at 02:04
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle, bought in Hirschaid. Blonde, no head. Flowery hops and a hint of cardboard in the aroma. Malty flavor with apple, cardboard and a hint of old hops. Past its peak, though the best before date wasn’t reached yet. Re-rate: bottle, bought at the source. Pale vblonde. Grassy, stony aroma. Malt, soft grassy hopbitter flavor. Hint of soap in the aftertaste. Above rating is for the re-rate
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2009
at 05:12
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is hops, grains, some fruit and saltwater. Flavour is grains, toffee, some earth and saltwater. Rather papery as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2009
at 11:53
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottled (BB 08/2009). Yellow color, mostly vanishing white head. Unclean diacetyl-like sweetish, honeyish plus cardboardish aroma. A bit watery palate. Sweet malty, slightly diacetylic. Aftertaste has some grassy bitterness, but otherwise boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2009
at 17:13
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Deep golden colour, mediumsized white head, leaves some lace. Aroma is mildly skunky, grassy, some saltwateryness, malts and a bit herbal as well. Flavour is malts, quite wooden, saltwatery and grassy. Also some interesting sweetness as well as mild earthyness. A rather refreshing brew. Crisp carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2009
at 08:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (Citymarket Sello, BB 08/2009). Golden color, good white head. Skunky, grassy and metallic nose. Decent malty body. Flavor has nice bitterness, but also some metallic and buttery notes. Long sweet malty and bitter aftertaste. Reasonably robust lager (4.7%) to buy from Finnish Supermarket, but has also some odd metallic flavors and odours. I am not sure if this is really Helles, tastes more like a pils.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2009
at 15:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is smoked malts, some caramel malts, wood and some nice hoppyness. Flavour is smoked wood, caramel malts, some rather sugary notes. Pleasant and very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2009
at 11:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 4.7% as Krausen-Bügel Lager Hell, bought at the brewpub. Lagery aroma. Hazy golden colour. Small stable white head. The flavour is mild, mostly has some bitterness, slightly rough, but clean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2009
at 08:12