Dortmunder Union Export

Brewed by Brauerei Brinkhoff (Oetker Group)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Dortmund, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Pours a light golden colour with quite a lot of white head. The aroma is grassy and hoppy as is the norm for the style, but it’s perhaps slightly less pronounced in this beer. A nice mellow flavour of hops and citrus fruits. There a malty sweetness on the finish. Quite pleasant.

dość dobre ale bez wyrazu, jasnożółty kolor, piana znika szybko, trochę za gorzkie, czuć fajną mięciutką wodę, na koncu kwaśno-gorzki posmak. Zanim zdecyduję sie na ponowny zakup musze sprobować innych dortmundzkich exportow, bo wielu znawcow na tym forum zarzuca temu piwu, ze nie jest prawdziwym exportem raczej przypomina typowe niemieckie jasne pelne

Feb 2010: Brown 0.5 litre bottle, drank and reviewed with two months left towards the ’Best before Date’. Poured into my Veltins stemmed tulip three times (the glass is a 0.2 Litre one). Light gold, light for an Export/Dort, the pure white head makes it look even more like a lager/pilsner. Each pour produced the same well formed head, each in turn left some good lacing on the glass. You have to hunt for a smell, some grainy aromas and not much else, a mini hop and yeast esters if your nose is good, otherwise nothing. The taste doesn’t have the sharpness and depth the better Dorts have, more a pleasant pilsner than a heavy export beer. So, light in colour, light in body and flavours. It is a good enough beer, but isn’t the greatest for style, if it was a pilsner the scores would have been higher.

nuts, hay, citrus, vanilla, golden, cloudy, rocky head, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, heavily sour, medium body, creamy, lively, bitter,

50 cl bottle @ Kahdet Kasvot, Tampere.
Originally rated on 20100417.
Grain, malts and barley on the nose and flavour, a bit watery.

Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts intense hoppy-dry, a bit metallically. Finish a bit moldy-hoppy, still metallically. Okay.

Bottled 500ml. -from Bier Imperium, Vienna. Yellow coloured, medium sized airy white head, bready herbal nose. Lively carbonation. Bready, slight herbal and a bit metallic specially in the finish. Boring and (below) average beer.

Somewhat bitter and perhaps sometimes even dusty but on the other hand has some nice classic German Helles characteristics which serve pretty well. Somewhat bitter but good refreshing and nice clear color with good foam.

Bottle courtesy of ogivlado (thanks!)
Poured a pale golden body with a big white head. Grainy, dusty, herbal nose, quite sharp. More of the same in the taste, slightly salty, slightly bready. A generic Export. Yay.

Bright yellow color. Smells very malty, slightly musty. Starts dominant malty, with a slightly musty flavor in background. The further course is malty, slightly musty, with some bitter hops in background.

Warum nicht mal wieder ein Export?! Union Export hat einen herben Geruch in den auch malzige Nuancen miteinspielen. Geschmack kräftig und würzig. Gute Mischung aus Malzigkeit und Herbe. Ein gutes Export mit vollem Körper. Aussagekräftig.Test vom 3.3.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche