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Helsdon

Toronto, ON, Canada 🇨🇦 Member
Deeply underachieving beer snob. I'll occasionally have a drink, and when I do I want it to be a good one. Oh, and if I give a detailed rating on a beer, rather than a quick tick, you can ignore the specifics. I don't need to judge appearance, or whatever. I just don't want to leave a rating rounded to the nearest .5, like the quick tick limits you to.

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7/10
Can brought back from Montreal by the Mrs. Notably sweet malt base, dusty resinous hops, with some bitterness to balance the syrupy sweet.
Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2026 at 23:23

6.5/10
Mindly hoppy resin, light tropical fruits, a little hop burn and oddly a touch of booze, mild sweet malt, mild bitter. Tis' ok. Can from the LCBO.
Tried from Can on 05 Sep 2026 at 22:43

5.5/10
Can brought back from out went. Sweet malt, peach flavour tasting a little fake, bittering hop. Meh.
Tried from Can on 05 Sep 2026 at 01:34

7.5/10
Can brought back from out west. Tasty some stone fruit, resin hops, sweet malt and balanced bitterness. Very nice.
Tried from Can on 05 Sep 2026 at 00:52

6/10
Can from LCBO. Caveat up front. I bought this in June? or so? Drinking it in early September, and it was brewed last February. I had a lot of beers that needed attention this summer, forgive me. That said this beer isn't great. I'm getting surprisingly little lime. Maybe the yeast metabolized it all out? Crisp biscuit malt, mild lime at the edges, with a pithy mild bitterness in the finish. I enjoy left field but this was a swing and a miss. If I have a fresher version of this I'll update.
Tried from Can on 04 Sep 2026 at 21:24

7/10
Can from lcbo. Rich roasted malts with some sweet malts and bittering hops that hits a decent balance.
Tried from Can on 28 Aug 2026 at 21:11

7.5/10
Draft at Rebel House cloudy pink, nearly fuchsia, with a sheer of sparse white head. Juicy passion fruit noise. Taste is mildly aserbic sour balancing the juicy tropical fruits. Lingering sour.
Tried from Draft at The Rebel House on 26 Aug 2026 at 18:31

6.5/10
Can brought back from Montreal by my wife. Thanks honey! Pours a opaque rosey pink. Taste of citrus, mild tropical fruits. Mild sourness. It's pretty meh.
Tried from Can on 23 Aug 2026 at 00:11

Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 2 for Weizen - Hefeweizen ticks with a total of 10 ticks of this sub style.
Weißbier from Rorschach Brewing Co. was the one that did it!
1 month ago


6.5/10
Passable German wheat. The esters weren't bad, not quite the banana and other notes I was expecting, little plasticy. But decent enough.
Tried from Draft at Bryden’s on 13 Aug 2026 at 02:56