2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Light malty, light sweet smell of bread. Normal sized white foamy head, which disappears after a few minutes. The body is of an bright yellow. Malty and light sweet start, mild taste, medium duration. Light to medium body, light creamy texture, lively carbonation. Not a bad one.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled@One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malts, some herbs, mild grains as well as some slight wood. Flavour is bready malts, some grains, saltwater and mild herbal notes as well. Ends quite hayish and grassy.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle (OPP, Helsinki. German Weeks 2009)
Mustard and mushrooms aroma. Pleasant carbonation. More mustard in the retronasals too. Taste quite big - some bitter hops and a touch of alcohol. Sounds worse than it was perhaps, but maybe my points are charitable. I’d not rush to have this again.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
(bottle) Clear, golden colour with a mid-sized, non-persistent frothy white head. Sweet, cara-malty nose with a touch of biscuits and shy hoppy notes. Sweet flavour with a light touch of bitterness, medium to light bodied with a soft carbonation. Malt-accented taste with light notes of cara-malt and biscuits; solid malty and quite hearty finish with a delicate hops-character. Likeable Export (06.08.08).
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle (purchased at the Brauerei): Golden to deep golden, smaller, slowly collapsing off-white head; solid sweet-grainy nose; medium bodied, moderate to robust sweetish, only faint bitter flavour; almost a tinge of alcohol in the mainly sweet-grainy, slightly tart and bitter finish. Quite well rounded, chewy Helles........
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