Bornstedter Büffel Helles

Brewed by Hofbrauerei Krongut Bornstedt
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Potsdam, Germany

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Hazy straw. Smells yeasty and doughy with strange fruitiness. Light doughy character. Fresh pale malts. A mellow brew.

Tap at the pub, hazy golden with a soapy white head. Lightly grassy and probably too bitter for a Helles, has a grainy vein running right through it and really has an amateurish homemade quality to it. Crisp, fullish body, and drinkable.

On draft at the brewpub. Hazy golden colored, thick white head. Hoppy nose, bit flowery, hay, malts. Pleasant bitter flavor, thirst quenching. Not very complex, but very easy to drink (no wonder they serve it in half liter mugs). Extra points for drinkability, an underrated quality on Ratebeer imho.

On tap at the site in October. Cloudy orange with a small white head. Malty aroma with a touch of caramel, and some grassy hops. Malty flavour with grassy and herbal hops, and a nice bitter finish

Draught. Hazy yellow with a short lasting head. Peculiar beer this. Aroma is eggy. Flavour is yeast, some lemon and quite a sour bitter finish. Palate is long and dry

Draft @ brewpub. Hazy yellow with stable head and scattered lace. Aroma has some yeast funk and pedio. Soft palate. Tastes better than it smells with nice crisp hop finish. Nutty pale malts add nice balance.

Draught @ Hofbrauerei Krongut Bornstedt. Color cloudy yellow with medium head. Aroma grain, bread. Taste bread, grain, bitter, lemon. Refreshing.

(Draught at the brewpub, Potsdam, 23 July 2010) Hazy yellow colour with frothy, white head. Malty nose with bread, hay, grass and a touch of tropical fruit. Malty, slightly fruity taste with notes of bread, grass, a touch of tropical fruit and a gentle grassy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Kind of average, but refreshing and nice.

Draft. A hazy golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and straw, as well as lighter notes of yeast and sulphur. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and straw as well as lighter notes of yeast and sulphur, leading to a bitter finish where the notes of straw and sulphur lingers.

05/03 Draught at the brewpub. It had hazy pale golden body with small head. Quite fine aroma, unpasteurized sourish hops, slightly grainy. Very weak flavor, some fine chalky and bready malts and yeast, but nothing too much indeed. Thin body gives short finish, where some sourish lemony hops are showing up again. Pretty boring watery brewpub beer.