Fujiyama Helles

Brewed by Fujiyama Beer
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Fujiyoshida, Japan

Serve in Lager glass

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Seasonal beer, on tap ar the brewery. Very light gold, head turned to lace after five minutes. Sweet aroma of rancid butter. Strange flavor of medicinal herbs, steel, light fruit. Not very beer-like at all. Hoppy, bitter finish that is very metallic. Tastes unfinished, unripe, and quite probably spoiled. I normally wouldn’t include this rating at all, thinking the beer a mistake, but since Martin T had a similar experience a year before me, obviously this is how they intend to make this crap.

My Bottom Line:
A dirty blanket found in the attic should not be representative of a Helles, ever.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam tops the clear blond, producing some lacing.
-This dusty, dead yeastiness pervades the flavor profile.
-Body is lean, offering a few honeyed cereals.
-There is barely any hop flavor, although some wooden hop bitterness is felt.
-Light citrusy fruitiness is found underneath the dustiness.
-Rubbing alcohol and chlorine are soon found in the nose; dis-gus-ting.
-This botched batch should not have been served.

On tap at the brewery restaurant.