Löwenbräu Original

Brewed by Löwenbräu Munich (InBev)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Munich, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

Bottle 50cl. A clear yellow beer with huge carbonation and white head. Smell is heavy on nuts and lager yeast. Aroma is very classic, bit sweet, no wrong taste, ok for a lager some hopy grassy finish.

Pours golden with white head, aroma has some skunky malt and bread. Taste is a bit of malt sweetness from the bread, but not much else and finishes clean. A bit above the average of the style

Pours light gold, small white head. Good bready malt and floral hop aromas; this one actually gets pretty pleasant as it gets a bit warmer. A bit thin taste and mouthfeel. No real off-flavors. Good job making a quite light, drinkable beer at 5.2% abv with decent flavor.

[4,5 %, 0,5 l can] Roasty caramel malt, very nice CREAMY END! Not much hop, but still very tasty. Very little bitternes, but there is some, some time after drinking, but not badly at all. Somehow makes you drink more and more :P

Bottle poured into pilsner glass. Pours a brilliantly clear medium gold with a fine, white lace. Pure malt flavoring with hop balance. Finish is dry and malty. The Lowenbrau I had at Oktoberfest in Munich in 1975 was much better.

50 cl can. Golden with a white head. Sweet taste with chemical notes, typical "industrial beer". Not that good to be honest.

The original, sold in Japan. A pretty nice malt character for a beer that is relatively light. Light body, easy to drink, not a lot of hopping, and thus a touch sweet. Pretty good, and definitely malty, but rather non-descript. Much nicer than the Japanese-made licensed variety, though.

Found this in my in-law’s refrigerator, so it probably wasn’t at its freshest. Poured clear golden with decent white head. Nose is slightly skunky, with typical German malts and hops. Nothing exciting here, but easy to drink.