Grohe Hell (Export)

Brewed by Brauerei Grohe Darmstadt
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Darmstadt, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet, fruit, malt, hop. Flavour is sweet, malt, fruit, hop, grass. Ordinary beer.

Bottle brought from Darmstadt by my wife. Pours light golden with a nice thin head. The aroma is initally malty but is more metallic later on. Taste is malty and grainy, but there is also more bitterness than one would expect from a Helles. Medium-full mouthfeel, lingering bitterness. Drinkable and passable but nothing special.

Draught, Talbot Taphouse, Ripley, Derbyshire, England. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you hens-teeth-rare-for-the-UK German beer, rate it. Too flat but plenty of breakfast flavours, all semi-sweet and gentle malt and bacon. Apart from the last bit. An agreeable hell. Like Meadowhall at ten o’clock on a weekday morning.

(bottle) pours a clear golden colour with a frothy white head. aroma of caramel and pale malts, rather sweet, with hints of marzipan and a light floral-hoppy backdrop. flavour is mostly the same, quite clean, with a medium sweetness and a light bitter finish. medium-bodied with average carbonation.

(bottle) Clear, golden colour with a blond and tall foamy head. Moderately sweet and slightly buttery (cara-)malty aroma with bready notes and a tinge of herbal hops. Sweet and shy bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Slightly bready malty taste with subtle fruity notes and discreet herbal accents towards the finish. Likeable. 08.IV.11
Earlier Rating: 8/15/2006 Total Score: 2.9
(bottle) Clear, pale golden colour with a short but stable foamy white head. Light sweet strawy and Pilsener-malty nose with a tinge of citrus and a shy hoppy background. Moderately sweet flavour with a malty base and a subtle fruity taste; dry malty, rather unbalanced bitter finish with light notes of herbal hops. Still pretty drinkable.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grainy hoppy bitter grassy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.

Bottle. Sweet creamy barley malt and bitter grass aroma.j Cloudy golden yellow with moderate head. Sweet slightly creamy barley malt and moderately bitter metallic/grass hops flavor. Nice malt aftertaste. Not bad - a tad rough.

.5L bottle - Shared w/ SkyCop32. Picked up at Maruhn Getränke in Darmstadt. Pours a clear golden yellow color. Aromas of grass, cheerios, and a touch of flowers. Flavor is kinda sweet to start, citrusy finish with some hop notes.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, straw, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, light green grass, light yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20091003]

Bottle @ German Tasting Ulfborg. Pours clear pale piss yellow with a small white head. Tart dry flavor. Very grassy. Medium bodied.