Mahrs Bräu Hell

Brewed by Mahrs Bräu
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Bamberg, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

01-Jul-07 (500 ml bottle: Purchased 04-Oct-06 for $3.39 at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA) With the bready, grainy and slightly sweet malt attack and a soft, but pleasant background flavor of minimally bitter noble hop flavor, this is a pretty standard example of the style. The hops stays somewhat consistent from start to finish, but the bready malt turns downright doughy in the finish. The nose offers a similar profile, but is perhaps a bit more intensely bready than the flavor. Still, though, the noble hop aroma comes through. Medium in both body and carbonation level, with a slight hop cleasing, but not nearly enough to make the beer crisp and refreshing. Yellow to pale golden color is marred by a bit of unrelenting haziness, but the tall and creamy, white head is a beauty when the beer is poured. As the head settles to a wide ring, patches and spots of lace remain on the glass. A decent Helles, but not one that is likely to win me over as a repeat buyer.

Draft but in the US, so it was a bit skunky. Would have been good if it was fresh - lots of hops & some complexity.

(500 ml bottle ("bottled on 5 0 22") from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank>Downeast Beverage Co.) Pours hazy gold-yellow with three fingers of fairly foamy white head. Aroma of bread with honey. Mouthfeel smooth, on the lighter side but probably about right for a helles. Nice rings of lacing. Flavor is light, sweet honeyish malt with a light pine bitterness that kind of tickles the tongue. Some light soapy sourishness in warmer samples.

On draught at Reading BF 2007. Gold, thin white head. It’s a lager. Not a very good one either. Bit pukey, no great body. No great hop either.

Golden with a good sized head. The aroma is sweet and grainy with warm bread and some freshly clipped grass. It tastes of sweet grainy malts with a mild lemony tartness and a soft grassy bitterness. An uncomplicated, sessionable Dortmunder.

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Smells okay, a little grasssy. Is not complex, but is refreshing. A little something in the finish that I don’t like, maybe too grassy? Still, pretty good.

Tap, at the brewpub, July 2005. Deep gold, good white head and moderate condition. Solid sweet malt and grain with a touch of honey in the nose, big sweet maltiness in the mouth with a gentle yeasty bitternessand a gentle but sustained hop note in the finish.

(50cl bottle) Clear straw body with small white head. Aroma is medium sweet, spicy/grassy, some cereal/bread. Taste is medium sweet, grassy, some lemon, light cereal. Solid bitterness. Light-medium body, nice crispness though a but watery.