2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml flip-top bottle brought home from Trier. Bottom fermented beer that pours a cloudy, orange body under a dense, white foamy head, reduced to a filmy layer after a short while. Moderate blend aroma of hops and malts. Pale malty taste followed by grain-like sweetness with fruity hops beneath. Dry ending. Fairly well made German Helles (Tromsø, 18.10.2007).
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draft at abbey. My least favorite of their biers. nice but nothing special.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught: Poured a orange golden amber with a thin bubbly head. The aroma was a harvesty malt. Sour citrus acidic flavor.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, 5.2% as Hell Naturtrüb. Cloudy golden colour. The flavour is a bit roasted, confusing. Gets acidic. But not bad.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A hazy orange beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of caramel - and so is the flavor.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy amber golden with a white head. Malty nose. Medium-bodied with sweetish, malty accents and a rather marked hoppiness in the finish. 210906
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottled. Pours hazy pale golden in colour with a rather small head. Somewhat malty and sweet but alsop with lots of hoppy and grassy notes. Feels sharp and not very wellbalanced. Slightly spicy and bitter finish.
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught at the brewery:
Aroma was fruity hoppy and sweetish.
Colour was a murky gold, as is usual for German Micros, they don’t go in for heavy filtering, if the beer falls clear, good, if not that’s usual. The head was off white, and subsided pretty quickly, but given the low carbonation, I’m not suprised. I think these beers only have natural carbonation, unlike some other breweries that augment the pressure by gas - a good sign.
The flavour was of a fruity cream soda with light hop character ending in a slightly astringent sticky end - a good example of a Bavarian Vollbier/Helles.
I had the Schweinehaxe too, but unfortunately we were there right at the beginning of the lunch hour and the Hax’n were not all too well cooked, cooked yes, ready to be served no - but the waiter said it was the fact that they were cured beforhand - I don’t think so, I have had them the same way in Luxemburg where the meat fell off the bone, and the skin was really nice and crispy - apologies to the veggie community, I’m a confirmed carnivore.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
This abbey opened the brewery in May 2004, but shows no signs of unexperience with this great brew. Beautiful glowing hazy orange coloured. Fruity and hoppy aroma. Even though the brewery says that this beer is "schwächer gehopft als ein Pils", the flavour is very hoppy, much hoppier than most German pilseners. It is not extremely bitter, but is very hop-aromatic and flowery. Truly refreshing and a perfect match to the excellent Schweinehaxe of the abbey.
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