3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From tap at Khybar. Pours cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Vague butterish aroma. Sweet caramelish and slight roasted malt. Bitter and light grassy into a malty finish.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Draught at Barcade, New York
Hazy blond color. It shows light Hallertauer aroma. Simple flavor, hay; it has correct bitterness. Boring.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
(Draught) Pours a clear copper body with a medium creamy off-white head. Aroma of mustiness, wet grain, butter, and caramel. Flavor of caramel, roasted grain, and grass.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Draft. Crystal clear apple juice body with white head. Aroma is medium sweet, spicy, some orange, light straw. Taste is moderately sweet, perfume/flower, some spicy, light lemon, bread. Light-medium body. Too sweet.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
growler-pours a white head that laces and yellow color. Aroma is grain, fruity/spice-light hops. Taste is grain, some huskiness, light malt-caramel, fruity/spice-light hops, crisp. Good carbonation.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap. Poured a medium golden color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of grains and citrus. Tastes of grains, doughy, and citrus. A little honey sweetness in the taste as well. This was drinkable, but I usually don’t overly enjoy Helles as a whole.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tap at Barcade. Clear pale golden beer with a thin white head. Aaroma is lightly malty with a touch of sweet light apple aroma. Low hop rates, but there is a nice light bready character. Flavour is also quite cidery. The body is decent as is the balance of hops and malt, but that appley esters just shouldn’t be here and I find it quite distracting.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Draft at Barcade under the name Hofmann(sic) Helles. Clear light golden hue, shining, decent sized white head, mostly lasting. Great hallertau? Hops nose, very floral and lemony, grassy, spicy enveloped by delicious strawy pils malt. The power of the maltiness takes form on the tongue developing mind-boggling pureness of flavour, bread and biscuits of the highest order. Very fruity as well with lemon and tropical fruits being surprisingly omnipresent and bringing a pleasant low level of acidity which enhances drinkability to rarely encountered levels. Not too dry, not too sweet. Oily texture, small bubbles, restrained carbonation. Awesome focus in there, so soft, so clean, so pure balance glory. Another tour de force by Climax.
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