Braumanufaktur Hell

Brewed by Braumanufaktur Forsthaus Templin
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Potsdam, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Bottle. Pours clear straw coloured with a small white head. Aroma is weak malty. Taste is light grassy hops, moderate sweet caramel, lingering till the end.Dry bitter finish, ok.

One cold 2012 January Sunday afternoon I visited the brewpub and tried all four beers available: this being the first. I believe this beer is also called by other names on occasions. It came semi-cloudy blonde/light orange colour in a tall handled glass containing 0.3 litres, the head a white cap of bubbles. The smell was of mildly sweet malts and hints of yeast, the taste not far off that either, a trace of bitterness in the aftertaste, but this isn’t a hoppy brew. Butterscotch and caramel came to mind in the flavours, this isn’t a refreshing helles/pilsner like the mass produced ones; this is more wholesome and complex. The girls in my party really took to it and only drank glasses of this while my male friend and I drank everything on tap that was on offer. We would however have been quite happy to have had a session on this one beer.

Pale yellow golden rocky white head, Aroma sweet malts, dough, some hops. Palate slick medium full bodiedcarbonation smooth. Taste sweet malts, some herbal nuances. Aftertaste mild, not muchmuch hoppiness or bitterness mild. More to Bohemian pils but weak flavors. Texture is good, otherwise too sweet malty and cereal, with no balance.

UPDATED: JAN 26, 2012 Bottle....It pours hazy golden with a small white head.... The aroma is grain and grass.... The flavor is sweet, sugar, some hops, hay, malt and grass...... mmhh weak...

Swing-top by 20.01.2012. Sweet malty nose with light phenols and strong vanilla. Slightly hazy yellow-golden body with a creamy white head. Taste is faintly bitter, sweeter than average, with a hint of tart. Lots of sunny citrus here, but there’s also the impression of a flimsy artificial sweetener. Grainy light body, but not watery. Think I’ll skip the next round.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small whit ehead. Has a fruity malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy flavor with weak hints of caramel. has a fruity malty grainy finish.

Bottle at Sune’s. Clear golden - white head. Diacetyl. butterscotch. Bread. Light malty. Fatness. Egg. Grassy. Caramel. Light citric. ØvØvØvØv.

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Cloudy blond color. The aroma is grassy, hay, cereals, but also paper. Weak body and mouthfeel; light malt flavor, with some residual sweetness; very light cereals and chamomile; low bitterness. Different than a usual bottled Lager, but not as refreshing and incisive as a good draught.

Bottled. Cloudy deep golden, rich head. Very fruity nose. Perfumy with notes of peach. Sweet and medium bodied, soft mouthfeel. Plums and butterscotch, notes of green apples. Caramelly finish with low bitterness. Unusually unclean German helles.

FLÖSKA. Hazt golden colour with a small white head, ok lacing. Grassy and grainy maltish aroma. Ok mouthfeel. Flavour has some caramel with grassy hops, grains and bit malt.