Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier

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

Serve in Lager glass

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Bottle. Clear medium yellow / orange color with a average frothy good lacing white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, bread light, grain, light hoppy, grass, earth, butter, light light smoke. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft.

A yellow beer with a disappearing white head. The aroma is smoked - reminds me of tared rope. The flavor is sweet and lovely smoked - giving it hints of tared rope, combined with strong notes of wood, leading to a dry end. Nice. Thanks Dalle for getting this.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear, pilsener-golden beer with a small, white head. Faint smoked aromas and some sweet malt in the flavour. Weak smoky notes that are rather enticing - because of their lightness. Fresh and surprisingly easy to dring for a "Rauchbier". Brauerei Heller really cannot stay away from smoked malt - no matter what the base beer is. 300605

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow to orange with a dense, huge and white head. Mild bitterhops and faint smoke aroma. Mild creamy mouthfeel. Nice cornish medium sweet flavour and light hoppy bitterness lurking through. Dry almost wooden finish with a slowly building bitterness.

Bottled. Pale yellow. Smoked sausage aroma. Light bodied, but with dense malty mouthfeel. Nearly as smokey as the other Schlenkerlas.

Bottled. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is mild smoke, maize and diacetyl. Flavour is diacetyl diacetyl, maize and some mild hoppyness. Mild smoke as it gets a bit warmer.

Bottled. Clear pale yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of smoke and wood with notes of malts. Flavour of malts, smoke, wood and hops. Hoppy finish.

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.

UPDATED: DEC 25, 2011
Name: Helles Lagerbier
Date: April 02, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Athens
Appearance: pale yellow
Aroma: nice light smoked aroma
Flavor: light malt with great smoked flavor, light bitterness, it’s all about the great smoked flavor but it’s not too big to be overwhelming

Name: Helles Lagerbier
Date: June 25, 2006
Mode: bottle
after having a whole bottle I can say that the original rating from the brewfest thimble was spot on

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *** /4

Name: Helles, Zymatore
Date: October 11, 2011
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: opaque yellow, creamy off white head, lots of sticky lace
Aroma: sweet winey aroma, light earthyness, touch of oak
Flavor: sweet and spicy flavor, touch of winey sweetness, lots of spicyness, growing touch of funk, balancing bitterness

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

UPDATED: APR 3, 2012
2012-04-03, draught at Ølbaren, Copenhagen, 7-3-6-3-13=32
Blond color, compact head. It has a mild aroma of cereals and malt, biscuity but light. Malt flavor, mild, with a smooth mouthfeel, and traces of smoke; correct bitterness.
Well drinkable, but I had more incisive and aromatic versions in the bottle; this one has a more fat body and it’s half boring.

2011-05-31, bottle, 7-3-7-3-15=35
Pale blond color; medium-sized creamy head. Delicate, elegant malt aroma, with a mild biscuity touch. Good body, moderate malt flavor, with a light hint of smoke; correct bitterness. Very pleasant.

2006-05-27, bottle, 5-2-6-3-10=26
Hazy blond color. The aroma is very ordinary, with a light touch of smoke; the smoke is just more evident in the taste, and there is some also in the aftertaste; the base is a simple beer, quite dry. Absolutely to drink not too cold!