Schell Anniversary Series #5 - Hopfenmalz

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Clear amber with a medium tan topper and a swatch of lace. Aroma of pale and bready malts, citrus, mild noble hops. Taste of spicy hops and pale malt with some citrus and floral qualities. A bit on the sudsier side and notes of bitterness on the back end.

Poured a nice amber color, with not much of a head on it. Had a rather light taste and very drinkable.

Bottle. Pours a clear copper color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted and produced good lacing. Light to moderate sweet balanced aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Medium bittersweet flavor with a moderate bittersweet finish of average duration. Goes well with spicy food.

The Hopfenmalz is an reddish-orange beer with moderate head. The aroma is, sure enough, very hoppy, and the hops have both floral and citrus hints. The taste is very balanced (but I don’t notice any sweetness). The palate has good texture but a slightly bitter finish. Nonetheless, this is a good, good, solidly good beer from Schell, and one that I’ll be keeping my eye out for.

Pours a slightly hazy light brown orange color with medium foamy bubbly manilla head. Aroma is citric and sweetened oranges. Flavor has kinda watery weak body dominated by nice citric notes that lack the bitter abrasive bite of some pale ales. Finish is floral and clean with little cling. Overall, a nice lawn mower beer, but nothing overly compelx.

Bottle from sampler pack. Very decent beer, if a little of the mish-mash one would think from the description. Has the body of a malty beer with the hoppy flavor and especially finish of an IPA. Not the best but still a very good beer.

Can taste the hops more than anything but the malts do have a good prescence. A hard beer to categorize, among the better Schell beers.

Bottle, has a clear light amber-gold pour with a one and half finger faint off white head (has a slight haze from small bit of sediment in the bottle), the effervescence is medium, left some spots and lines of lacing on the glass when I swirled and I drank, no sediment in the bottle, the aromas consisted of toasted malt, bread, a little malt sweetness with grassy and fresh mint scented hops, nice aroma, there were flavors of toasted malt, bread, some bitter hops, that had a little orange and lemon citrus flavor, there were more hops in this beer than I was expecting, the finish has a little bitterness and does finish dry on the palate, mouth feel is less than medium with nice carbonation, a enjoyable drink.

Black Hills Beer Fest - under the guise of 150th Anniversary. Pours a clear dusty copper color with a small ring of beige head. Sweet and malty aroma, yet tangy with florals. Even some citrus. Tastes malt-forward, but not overly sweet. Certainly not bland. Nice citrus hop presence and even some pine. Nice session beer.

Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Medium amber brew with thick head and good head retention. Aroma dominated by grassy hops. Excellent flavor with a definate malt background that avoids being overly heavy or cloyingly sweet. Great complex hops bite late in the swallow and linging into the finish. Distrint dry-hopped characteristics that rivals many very good pale ales. I really like this one.