Climax Hoffmann Helles

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

Serve in Lager glass

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very nice Helles, a nice fit to the style..Smooth mouth with a mellow aroma, very balanced taste, grainy malts and light hop touch, good stuff, I really enjoyed drinking this, refreshing and the 1/2 gallon bottle is kickass..

Light bodied pale Helles with a musty aroma. Thirst quencher but not much in the way of flavor. Maybe we can play beer drinking games with Hoffman Helles.

Pours a hazy pale golden yellow with a medium white lasting head and some lacing. Aroma of citrus, lemon, grassy notes and some light biscuit malt. Taste same as aroma with some light sour notes and some bitter notes. Palate is a light body with low carbonation. Finish is sweet biscuit malt, citrus and lemon flavor, grassy and a light sour notes with a touch of bitterness. Overall an ok average brew.

Tap at Brady’s in Trevose, PA. Medium yellow. Faint aroma of noble hops/spicy. Taste is shockingly sweet, grassy, powerfully spicy from the noble hops. The finish is slightly more bitter but the spiciness absolutely dominates. The noble hops really show, but I think it’s a bit too much.

Light nose, a touch of bread dough and herbs. Light and dry taste with a touch of bitterness, dry cereal and floral hops. Nice stuff. Impressive offering for a brewery I’ve never heard anything about.

(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.

Draught at TJ’s: Aroma of malt, grain, noble hops, and slight citrus. Poured yellow/gold in color with a small, creamy, white head that lasted throughout. Slightly hazy. Not sparkling. Ok lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of malt, grain, noble hops, bread. Light to medium body. Lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, grain, noble hop finish is lightly dry.

Draft at Rembrandt’s. Pours a clear, dark golden yellow color with a one finger frothy white headthat slowly settles into a lasting ring. Sporadic spots of lacing left behind. Subtle earthy, floral aroma with hints of grassy hops and pale malt along with some light fruit notes. Smelly slightly creamy with hints of apple and faint alcohol. Medium bodied with a nice crisp floral hop bite up front that is countered by sweet pale malt, subtle alcohol and light fruit notes. Slightly earthy and grassy and faintly dry but not very bitter. Well balanced with pale pilsner malt and a crisp light apple flavor. Slightly dry with a bit of alcohol in the finish. Well balanced and really easy to drink especially in this humid weather.

This poured a darker golden color with a white head. Aroma was very noticable buttery diacetlye, and some grassy hops too. Flavor was much the same, lots of buttery toasted malts. Blah.

Draft. Pours amber with an off white head. Sweet crystal malt aroma with some toffee like notes. The flavor has sweet toffee and crystal malts. Possibly a hint of diacetyl. Not bad.

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.