Kitzmann Helles

Brewed by Brauerei Kitzmann
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Erlangen, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Bottle 50cl. @ home.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, sweet malt, fruity, sugar, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090617]

500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with small white medium pored head. Sour-grainy aroma. Incipient taste has grain, hay, later a fruity sweetness takes place. Nothing special.

Bottle @ Bamberg. Pours clear golden with a white foamy head. Lots of grain and hay. A bit sweet flavor with a herbal bitter end. Medium to thin body. Average.

A pretty standard helles. It is light and has some biscuity notes. It is predominantly malty.

Milder Getreideantrunk mit dezenter Säuerlichkeit. Spritzig, feinherb im Mittelteil werdend, die Säuerlichkeit nimmt zu und wird im Abgang zur Herbe. Hier ist das Bier außerdem deutlich würziger, im Vergleich zu anderen Hellen ist es immer noch mild. Test vom 16.2.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 10,7,9,8,6,9 - 8,50

Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass zippy, nice head. Starts mild, malty, modest sweet, fruity touch. Not very dry. Well balanced finish, quite drinkable. Nice!

Bottled (from bierzwerg.de). Golden colour, small white head, some lace. Aroma is bready malts, saltwatery notes, mild earthyness as well. Flavour is very much the same. Wellbalanced and clean, but a bit boring helles.

bottle from Bierzwerg. Clear pale golden colour, mid-sized white head. Malty, slightly hoppy, hints of dust.

Appearance: Sun-dried pale golden tint with an extremely, bubbly-airy, diminishing head. No traces of lacing or remaining foam. Huge, lazy bubbles.
Aroma: Moderate grainy, bready notes of pale malts. Clean yeasty scent with a touch of corn.
Flavor: Bittersweet cooked vegetables at the first sip. Slightly sweet grainy, walnut-like malt profile interrupted by a simple grassy hop biterness.
Mouthfeel/Palate: Light body with harsh overcarbonated, watery texture.
Overall: A very humble helles, not the best that i’ve ever had. Far from mentionable.

Bottle, 4.9%. Dusty aroma. Hazy yellow colour. Good stable chalk white head. The flavour is quite bready, slightly sweet. Low bitterness. Not past BB date, but tastes a bit old.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is dry and grassy. Sweet and malty flavoured. Light bitter and slight malty flavoured. Light cornish to slight malty note. Ends medium dry and malty, light bitterness.