Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier

Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Bamberg, Bayern, Germany

Bottle. Clear yellow colour. Plasticy, thready head. The aroma has a little ashtray. The flavour is quite malty with a bit of smoke, more than a hint. Pleasant, medium bitterness. And pleasant mild to medium carbonation.

Bottle sample at Union Beer Trade Tasting, NYC. Light golden with a small white head. Aroma is an interesting blend of fresh lager - bready malt, grassy hops - and well-balanced smoke. Flavour is nice and fresh as well, with a good maltiness to balance the smoke, and some hops hitting the back of the tongue. Not as killer as the Marzen, but a nice diversion - I could imagine this as a good session beer, actually.

Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm. bronze coloured with rich white head. Aroma of smoked pork, biscuiy malts and grass. Smokey and sakty flavour. with a firm bready malty base. Long smokey and crisp aftertaste that lingers on.

Clear medium gold. Medium head of crunchy white foam. Lots of carbonation bubbles after the pour, slows to a few steady streams as it sits and the cap fades. Ghostly thin lacing in inky stringed patterms. Aroma is smokey with a clean, crisp, pale malt profile. Very distinct and peculiar with a tang of smoked meat and grain. Nice. Taste is broad and lasting with a savory little spiceyness of grasses and beechwood. Topping taste in the middle of the smokey stuff that stays nicely weaved within a pale malt sweetness and mild, easy going tang. Perfect floating finish of leftover smokeyness and a feathery spiced hoppy dryness. Feel is bold, rounded, smooth, and solidly placed in a medium body. Nice little centering sweetness and one fantastic finish of spice and impressionable length.. One very solid, straight up goodalicious, Helles Lager!

From a 500 ml. stubby euro brown bottle with no freshness date. Poured a clear lager golden with a foamy white head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. Smokey malt aromas with hints of grain, bread and floral hops. Good carbonation and a crisp, slick, creamy smooth light-medium bodied mouthfeel. Delicious tasting, toasted grain and sweet, slightly sugary malts mingled with smoked malts, a light spicy and floral hoppiness, the hop are have a soft bitterness, just enough to balance against the sweet, smoky malts, and a sweet grainy finish with a soft smokiness linger on the tongue. The more beers I try from this brewery, the more I’m impressed with their quality, you don’t have to like smoke beers to find this very drinkable.

Light gold with a small, white and foamy head. Lightly smoky in the nose with a touch of fruitiness. Some grassy notes, but it is a little weak in the aroma department. The flavor is noticebly stronger in the smokiness. The fruits are a bit more along with the maltiness. Almost a lemon quality underlying the smoke. The body is light and refreshing and this is just smoked enough to pique your interest. I liked it.

THis beer was as good almost as the other before. BUt it was a Lager, BUt with this I do not care what Style is.

A light yellow pour. A clovish aroma slightly overpowers the paper aroma. A crisp clean taste that reminds me of a Kolsch but not hardly as dry. Not a great beer but not bad for what iit is.