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Helsdon

Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 Member

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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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Helsdon added a new beer Margarita Gose by Muskoka Brewery
6 months ago

7.8

Helsdon (1068) reviewed Old Düsseldorf from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 6 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Dark opaque pour, with a finger of tan head that sustains. Taste is solid toasty, bready malt, that's fairy dry, with mild bittering hops. The flavour comprehensively lingers. I enjoyed thia one. Can from the brewery.

Tried from Can at Great Lakes Brewery on 16 Jul 2025 at 23:46

6.6

Helsdon (1068) reviewed Beer From Here from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 6 months ago

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

Pours a pale, but cloudy blonde, with soapy white head. Taste is fairly light. Mild, slightly thin, dry hay malt. Hops is mildly resious, mildly bitter with citrus undertones, with lingering bitterness on the finish. Feels a little thin, but not bad. Can from the brewery.

Tried from Can at Great Lakes Brewery on 15 Jul 2025 at 18:48

Helsdon updated a beer: Beer From Here brewed by Great Lakes Brewery (Canada)
6 months ago

7.8

Helsdon (1068) reviewed Citraddiction from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 6 months ago

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

Tasty. Grapefruit, orange zeat hops, slight burn, with some pithy bitterness. Over a mildly sweet grainy malts. Decent weight to it. Quite nice, and surprising for a 4.4. Can from the brewery.

Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2025 at 23:39

Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 2 for Lager - Pilsener ticks with a total of 10 ticks of this sub style.
Arrow German Pilsner from Trestle Brewing Company was the one that did it!
6 months ago

Helsdon (1068) ticked Arrow German Pilsner from Trestle Brewing Company 6 months ago

Nice even pils. Sunny hay malt, with nice apricot overtones, finish with a mild bitterness. Can from brewery.

Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2025 at 02:28

6.5

Helsdon (1068) ticked Cerveza La Mera Mera from TWB (Together We're Bitter) Co-Operative Brewing 6 months ago

Pour a clear golden with a little white head. Nose is all bready malt. Taste is bready, slightly doughy, malt. You can definitely pick up on the corn. Mild bitterness in the finish. Surprisingly dense for a 3.9. It's okay, kinda boring.

Can bought at the St. Jacob's Market

Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2025 at 00:12

Helsdon added a new beer Cerveza La Mera Mera by TWB (Together We're Bitter) Co-Operative Brewing
6 months ago

Helsdon (1068) reviewed GLB Berliner from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 7 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Looking forward to this one! Can from the brewery. Pour is a light blonde with thick white head that disappears. Nose is a light funk. This being only a 3.8%, it did feel a little thin, but that's almost to be expected. Really nice, fresh light crispness with some funkiness. Flavors of apricots some dirty socks over a very light straw malt. For a session beer, it's really quite nice, don't expect a meaty, aserbic Berliner, you'll be disappointed. I appreciate the lack of fruit.

Tried from Can on 06 Jul 2025 at 23:58