Darmstädter Ratskeller Premium Helles

Brewed by Hausbrauerei Darmstädter Ratskeller
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Darmstadt, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Draught @ Darmstadter Ratskeller Gasthausbrauerei, Marktplatz 8, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany 64283.

Unclear - hazy medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, mash, light to moderate hoppy, sweet fruit. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light bitter with a long duration, fruity, malty, grass notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20121001]

Clear yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, fruits, spices and butter. Flavour of fruits, spices, malts and hay.

Tap at brewpub. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy yellow with a medium, frothy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is straw, meal, and grain malt, spicy hops and a clean lager character. Flavor is malty with spicy hops and a dry finish. Light body, low warmth, and medium carbonation.

Bottled 1000ml (OPP)
A bit hazy golden color, small vanishing head. Grainy, malty aroma. Light to medium-bodied. Grainy, grassy, a bit sweetish malty flavor. Orange peel lingering aftertaste.

Draught at the bräuhaus, as Pilsner Brauart
Hazy deep blond color. Mild but pleasant hop aroma. Lean body; there is some malt flavor, at least with a mild biscuity character; good hopping level even if there are only moderate aromatic qualities. Balanced. It’s another sweetish Pils, as many others in the region, easy to drink, and with some light point of interest. Pleasant.

Sehr getreidiger Geruch und auch Antrunk, der sich nur zögerlich zurückbildet und eine leichte Grundherbe hinterlässt. Wenig hefig und kaum hopfig, deutlich nach Gerste. Erfrischend, aber unspektakulär. 9/8/9/8//8

A nice sweet beer with a thick creamy head. A good light beer to be had. Goes well with the food and such.

[on tap at brewpub] Nice fresh hops aroma with a little sulfur and sweet base malt. Hazy yellow-orange with a lasting off-white cover. Fresh flavour, almost crisp from bitterness. Sweet malt with some "young" sulfur, herbal hops, and a yeast note. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation, moderately bitter finish.

UPDATED: MAR 15, 2009 Taked it away in a 1-ltr. flip-top bottle. Hazy unfiltered beer with a pale yellow color, fine creamy white head. Nice aroma of pale malt, aroma-hop, light sourish yeast. Absolutly correct taste of a helles one with fine malt, bottom yeast and the hop in the end. Nothing special but fine and drinkable. Good beer for tasting it on the marketplace at Darmstadt.

A hazy blonde with a thick creamy white head. A light lemon and sulfury aroma, bad sign. In mouth, a crisp malt with very sharp and crisp German hops comes and consoles for the aroma. Overall, pleasant. On tap at bp on Oct. 19 2007.