Anacortes Helles Festival Lager

Brewed by Rockfish Grill & Anacortes Brewery
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Anacortes, Washington USA

Serve in Lager glass

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Draft at Columbia City. Pours a clear bright gold with a small tighter white head. Sweet husky corn up front, light cereal grain, hint of honey, touch of grassy Nobel hops. Light crisp body with effervescent carbonation. Grainy cereal malt, honey sweetness, hint of corn. Decent lager.

Draft at special brews. Pours a hazy burnished medium amber. Headless, laceless. Mild corn nutty toasty nose. Creamy flat medium body. Toasty corn nutty mid palate. Mild finish.

Name: Anacortes Arts Festival Helles Lager
Date: September 05, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: hazy yellow, fine white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, touch of candy sweetness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, light spicyness, balancing earthyness, hint of malt candy
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

Nice clean aroma. Bread, pepper, light fruity sweetness. Light golden poutr, thin head. Clean sweetness, bread, earth in the finish. Solidly malty with a nice crispness that made this one very drinkable. A nice local lager.

Sublte oney and fruit notes in the nose. Grainy malty mouthfeel, with yeasty spiciness, and some light fruit flavors, with a hint of bitterness on the tail that follows all the way through the finish. Makes a decent food pairing beer.

(Draught) Sampled at the Great Canadian Beer Festival 2007 in Victoria on September 8th, 2007. Thin, white dissipated head with a lightly carbonated body. Nose of banana and lemon mixed with bread. Very good.

Burnished gold colour. Light bready malt nose. Firm maltiness on the palate, with some earthiness and apple notes. Big malt signature. The slight graininess tips off the US origins of this but it’s a nice brew.