Altenmünster Metzger Helles

Brewed by Allgäuer Brauhaus (Oetker Group)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Kempten, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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(swing top bottle) Clear, pale golden colour with foamy white medium head. Slightly sweet and light malty nose with grassy hops and peppery spice. Light-sweet flavour, light body, soft carbonation. Quite bland and thin papery malty and slightly grassy hoppy taste. Short, light-bitter finish.

Yellow colored with medium sized white head. Estery-hopped aroma with lemon also. Medium bodied. Flavor is more fruity and smooth in start, aftertaste lasts with some hops and lemon. Nothing special.

Bottle. Clear golden colour with a medium white head and a fair lacing. Weak malty aroma and taste with notes notes and a weak hoppy finish.

Bottle. BB 12.08 Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Week light malty and hoppy aroma. Bready moderate bitter flavor. Average bready finish. Oily palate.

Bottle 50cl. Pours a pale slightly cloudy brew with a typical white top. Big bubbles, quickly disappearing foam. Boring taste, no hops, no malts, watery.

0.5 l bottle: Pours with a golden body and with a medium sized white head, that is short lasting. Nose of floral hops and quite grassy. The flavour i of light malts and hops. Light bodied. Slightly bitter finish. Crisp and quite drinkable.

Sampled with omhper, tiggmtl, MartinT, muzzlehatch, and Rastacouere in Montreal. Thanks Stephen (and your neighbor) for this bottle. Sweet grassy aroma with slight pepper and slight DMS notes in the nose. Quite malty, bready, and doughy in the middle with slight hops to finish. Quite smooth and drinkable.

Initially sweet aroma with some floral hops but slowly creeping pea-soup-like DMS as it warms. Clear golden coloured with thin, white head that diminishes to lighltly ring. Mild DMS in sweet flavour with gentle bitterness. Light in the mouth. Bottle sampled with DYCSoccer17, MartinT, muzzlehatch, Omhper and Rastacouere.

Bottled. Golden colour, lightly hazy, not much head. Medium sweet with clean rounded mouthfeel and some bready malt. Medium bitterness. Solid.

omhper in Montreal #1 (with MartinT,tiggmtl,Rastacouere,DYCSoccer). Light blonde, reasonably fresh, hay and grass and a bit of sharpness to the nose...very heavy carbonation, light, rather dry, straw and paper...nice ending hops. Nothing stellar, but thanks Stephen for this rarity!