Löwenbräu Original

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

A refreshing beer, good as a session beer. Nice and light, like a pilsner without the hoppiness. A little clingy with some artificial sweetener flavors, but nothing terrible. Solid.

A clear yellow beer with a white head. I like most beers that match that description. Few that are available to me in New Brunswick catch my attention. This one is not an exception. However, definetly worth trying.

Bottle. Golden color pour with quick white head. Sweet hoppy aroma with a hoppy taste. First time I had this was at the Oktoberfest in the Lowenbrau beer tent. Don’t remember much of that experience. This is a pretty damn good beer and for $3.60 a six pack, I’ll buy it more often than not.

Bottle: Clear, golden coloured, lacing white head; sweet (pale-)malty nose; sweet(ish) flavour, traces of citrus; short, more sweet than bitter finish. O.K., nothing special..............

Well, it figures that I’d eventually have to follow TheBeerLover... he’s a tough act to follow. Tonight, tonight I let it be Löwenbräu and I wasn’t too disappointed. Pours golden and brilliant in my Svyturys Lager glass, with persistent efferevescence and a holding white head. Aroma finds powdery perfumes as if your mom’s bridge club just cleared out of the VFW. Additional grassy notes with sweetbread grains and a lagered persona. Mid-bodied with a crisp finish, this beer has a sweet start, stable center and light hopped finish. All in all it’s a refreshing beer, better suited for warmer weather.

For a pleasant beer, my numbers may not be as high as BeerLover’s, but I rate to personal preference rather than "to style" as do most RateBeerians and as the <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/FAQ.asp>RateBee FAQ suggests.

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Lowenbrau Original pours to a beautiful, bright, pale golden color with a thick white head, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is wonderful with lots of good, crisp, pale and pilsner malt aroma. The palate on this beer is crisp and clean with lots of good pale and pilsner malt on a very smooth and polished body. Lowenbrau Orignial finishes with more crisp malt character up front, and then is balanced to perfection with just the right amount of grassy/herbal hop bitterness. A flawless example of helles, balance of malt and hop character truly defines this beer. One might think its straight forward character makes it a simple beer, but any brewer of beer lover will tell you, it is no easy task to brew a flawless lager. There is no where for the aromas and flavors "to hide" so to speak. The aromas and flavors can not be masked in a beer like this, so if there is a flaw, you will be able to smell and taste it. Lowenbrau Original is a fantastic example of the science and art of brewing, and it is a wonderful experience to try this one at the Lowenbraukeller, though you can also enjoy it here in the US, on draught and in bottles.

Emjoying this one out of my friend’s Dad’s stash, I had to say for free it was a good beer, much better than expected. Easy to drink and a nice flavor. Not much else, but perhaps watching a video of David Chappelle made this better than it really was."

Bottle; pale yellow with head that disappears quickly; smell of hops and a little sweet, probably because the beer was older; tase of hops, then followed by sweet (caramel) and a little bitterness.