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Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Bamberg, Germany
Serve in Lager glass

bottled
common

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common

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RATINGS: 722   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.36   IBU: 30   EST. CALORIES: 129   ABV: 4.3%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
“Schlenkerla Helles” is brewed with fine Bavarian aroma hops from the area around the city of Nürnberg. It’s lagered in century old caves underneath the historic Schlenkerla brewery and maltings. Schlenkerla Helles is boiled in the same copper kettles and bottom fermented by the same yeast as the historic Schlenkerla Smokebeer. Its subtle smokiness without using smoke malt makes “Helles Schlenkerla Lager” a unique representative of the classic lager beer style “Bavarian Helles”. 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.


jaghana's rating

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
jaghana (2829) - Strasbourg (France), - AUG 11, 2012
Bottle 50cl, a clear copper beer with low head. Nose is on honey and caramel. Aroma is medium sweet, crisp with medium smoked notes, typical lager touch on nuts, high carbonation. Finish is on honey and grassy hops, medium bitterness but with long duration.


most recent ratings

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
Lambister (85) - FINLAND - MAY 18, 2013
50 cl bottle at home. Golden liquid with a small white head. The aroma has smoked plums and tar sauna. The flavor is sweet and lovely smoked - giving it hints of tar sauna, combined with strong notes of wood. Specially good lager type brew for summer.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
japppp (23) - - MAY 15, 2013
50cl bottle. Aroma is metallic almost pepperminty. Taste is balanced with hint of smoke. Very good beer when you are thirsty.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
k0mpsa (422) - Tampere, FINLAND - MAY 9, 2013
Bottle at home. Clear golden color, white head. Aroma is malts, some smoke, rye bread. Malty body, hops, fresh. Easy going lager.

3.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
trapped (332) - TURKEY - MAY 8, 2013
Draught. Rich yellow color with off white spobgy head, doughy aroma, slightly bitter taste, fizzy, long finish. Fine lager

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
zacgillbanks (957) - Tyne & Wear, ENGLAND - MAY 3, 2013
Bottle from Rehills, Newcastle. Golden coloured with smoked malt and toffee flavours, fruity sweetness followed by more smoke on the finish.

3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 13/20
ryanscourt (272) - Pennsylvania, USA - APR 2, 2013
Strong peppery spicy little bit of skunky aroma. Smoky flavors finish and linger in the aftertaste. Very interesting. Don’t dislike at all but then again could only drink so much. Makes you want to eat food.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
rlgk (7446) - Skövde, SWEDEN - MAR 27, 2013
Bottle from Zly Casy, Prague. Clear pale golden beer with a nice offwhite head. Grassy hop aroma, citrus, floral notes, some bread. Hoppy bitter flavor, bready, citrus, spicy notes, some hay, some red apples.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
BRW (192) - Barcelona, SPAIN - MAR 24, 2013
Bottle. Golden colour with big white head. Malt and sugar aroma. Malty and watery taste, slightly bitter.

3.6
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 15/20
milewide (1201) - Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA - MAR 16, 2013
Lots of body for a helles. Clear blond color. Average body. Fresh hop aroma and taste.

4.1
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 15/20
dreadnord (996) - San Diego, California, USA - MAR 15, 2013
Pours crystal clear pale yellow with a small white head. The nose is by far the weakest smelling as far as their line of smoke goes but that said it still has a very pleasant smoked meat and cheese element, a higher degree of fruity smells and some light grass or straw. The flavor is pure elegance as far as a lager goes. So crisp up front but mellows out into a nice smooth soft finish that is long as hell. The body is light. Very tasty, very refreshing.


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