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Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier

Percentile
78
overall
Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Dortmunder/Helles

Bamberg, Bayern, Germany

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4433.35/5.03.34/5.04.3%98.1Lager glass
Commercial Description:
A golden-colored lager beer with a hint of smokyness (from smoke residue in the brewery filters, not smoked malt). Editor’s note: Since this is not intended as a smoked beer, and is not billed as such, it has been classed here as a Helles, despite some samples having residual smoke character. Original gravity: 11.5% Alcohol: 4.3% Bitterness: 30
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 stobbe74 (700), Denmark
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/102/57/20
Sep 2, 2009  
Sampled at DØE Beerfestival 2009, Valby. Pours a clear yellow beer with a white head. The aroma is weak. The flavor is weak smoke. The palate is thin, and overall the beer needs character.


 fidelis83 (713), Clinton, Iowa, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/58/104/518/20
Aug 27, 2009  
Pours pale peachy gold with a 1 finger creamy white head. Aroma is smoke, grass, lemon, sweet grain, lightly toasted grain, a little soured malt and a touch of floury bread rolls. Flavor is like smoked granola, or something right away-smokey, slightly sweet and grainy-very nice, lightly roasted nuts, some biscuit and bread notes, grilled vegetables - in a good way - definite mineral notes and apple peel near the finish. Finish is campfire biscuits, grass and lightly bitter hops, with a crisp mineral fade that cleans the palate of smoke notes before they become stagnate. Palate is light bodied with a light yet slightly sharp carbonation and a dry that borders beween dry and slightly oily. I hate to see this bottle go, I really need to buy more of this the next time I can. I’d imagine that this would be a fantastic beer to pair with just about any meat or veggie dish, sushi would probably work extremely well too, mmmm... salmon.


 topherh (899), Kearney, Missouri, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Aug 26, 2009  
Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is light sweet malt, grassy hops, and light smoke. Flavor is lightly sweet with a bit of graininess, and a little biitterness in the finish. I am disappointed as I expected this to be like their other beers. Not horrible , but not a smoked beer.


 corby112 (706), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/102/56/103/514/20
Aug 25, 2009  
Pours a very pale golden yellow color with a lot of visible carbonation and a thin white head. Aroma is dominated by a smokey woodsy maltiness with very slight golden fuit notes. Golden pilsner altiness with a subtle hop character and a very smokey, characoal wood chip flavor. Dry finish.


 MoDog (917), Griffith, Indiana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 17, 2009  
500ml bottle served in a dimpled mug. Clear golden pour with a two-finger thick head of slowly fading off-white foam. A decent amount of thin, spider-web lacing was left around the glass. The aroma had grass, lightly toasted grain, and an unintrusive note of moderate smoke. The flavor was clean and crisp with a light campfire smokiness. Lightly grassy with a decent amount of sweet, toasted malt. Nice body for such a low ABV drink. Light carbonation. Pretty good stuff.


 BillKismet (1903), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Aug 16, 2009  
Blonde colored with creamed head. Light graininess in the nose, full of smoke, but supported by a crisp backbone. Light grainy maltiness of flavor of which airy smokiness plays. Nice.


 tmoreau (566), Lombard, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Aug 14, 2009  
On tap at the Bavarian Lodge, Lisle, IL. and poured to a logo-ed lager glass, a clear, golden color with tight bubbled, white foam and streaks of lacing. The aroma was light grain and smoked sausage. The flavor carried on the light smokiness along with a low intensity of hop bitterness but a pleasantly dry finish.


 DJMonarch (6777), Northwich, Cheshire, England
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 13, 2009  
Cask Stillage at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008 Carbonation. Hop aroma. Clear golden coloured and hoppy with a crisp and dry lasting malt finish.



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