Ayinger Jahrhundert

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Aying, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

Crystal clear, straw gold with copious foamy white head. Crisp pale lager malts, light citrus, and noble hops. Flavor is ultra-clean pale malt with a little sweetness, cracker, citrus, and a soft hop finish. Fresh and clean.

Bottle, The Post Office Vaults, Brum, 05/02/12. Not often I pick up a German in a UK pub, but I’m paying for it. Fizzing gold. Meaty, sweetcorn, lemony aroma. Hay and shrubs, cooked veg sweetness. Cheese and beetroot sandwiches dusted with white flour, correctly picked out by Octo. Not enough hop interest for me. An OK German lager, but deeply disappointing from these chaps.

Pours gold with a white head. Clean helles. Nice bitterness, slight grass hops and spice.

500ml bottle. Pours a pale yellow with a large, frothy head. Aroma is soft, minerally and grassy. Taste is sweet to start, bitter grassy finish with a touch of honey on the aftertaste.

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow, ever so slightly cloudy. The large, soapy head disappears all too quickly. The aroma is disappointing - it doesn’t really smell of anything; perhaps a slight hint of citrus, a little yeast but I’m struggling to detect anything significant. Deceptively light in taste given the 5.5% and a fair amount of fizz on the tongue. It’s not bad - indeed it’s a perfecty refreshing summer beer - but there are plenty of better helles.

Pale yellow and bubbles. Smells like light banana, no hops. Tastes lightly bread, but thin. Like a good BMC beer.

50 cl bottle at Ölrepubliken, Göteborg, on January 5, 2012
BB date was smudged and partly printed over the bar code, not able to get it to post here.
Clear pale golden color, big lasting white head. Malty dry scent. Sweet malty taste. A bit thin mouthfeel, low ro medium bitterness.

Bottle. Bright pale yellow color, large white head, delicate lacing. Aroma of white pepper. Taste is bitter and peppery. OK.