Ettaler Kloster Edel-Hell

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Ettal
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Ettal, Germany

1/2 liter bottle. Pours to a beautiful, bright, deep golden color, with a thick, creamy, white head, and a lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with lots of crisp, pale malt aroma, paired with grassy hop aroma. The palate is solid and clean, with excellent, crisp, pale malt flavor, on a round, smooth body. This beer finishes with excellent pale malt flavor up front, and is balanced to perfection with grassy hop bitterness that lingers. Outstanding helles, with sublime balance. I could inhale this beer by the liter. A great beer to match with classic German fare as well. I’ll be drinking much more of this one.

From a 500 ml. euro bottle with no freshness date, but it just hit the shelves of one my favorite beer stores, sampled at a cooler cellar temperature in a pilsener glass. Poured a clear bright golden with a frothy, foamy white head, good retention, minimal amount of sticking. Aromas of honey lemon and apples, a musty, earthy spiciness, a touch of herbs and flowers, and a sweet grainy maltiness. Good, steady moderate carbonation and a crisp, dry, velvety smooth medium, not quite full, bodied mouthfeel. Very tasty, a light taste of apples and pears covered with honey, sweet sugary, grainy malts, an earthy spiciness, the hops are soft in their bitterness, but linger in the palate, and a dry, crisp, spicy with a touch herbs, sweet malty finish. This is the third beer I’ve tried from Ettaler and all have been impressive, tasty and balanced, all are well worth trying.

Bottle: Orangey golden pour with a short lived bubbly white head. Aroma has some crystal malt, and light zesty suggestions of hops. Thin and carbonated body. Some papery malt flavors in the background, and a light caramel hint. There’s a slight hop zest in the crisp finish. A decent example of the style.

Bottle - Golden colored with a white head. I have become very fond of this style of beer. Sweat, earthy with a malty crispness. Enjoyable.

From a bottle. This poured dark gold with a hint of haze and a shnky large white head. The aroma makes me think of buckwheat pancakes with some hints of hay. There is also a little bit of lettuce. The taste is slight sweet potatoes with some apple core. There is also some light cinnamon in the finish. Decent, but I found it a little cloying after a while.

Pours a light golden with a white head. The aroma is malty with some caramel and a hops. Flavor has some caramel malt with some nice hops.

Bottle. Clear golden in color with a little white head. Malty biscuty aroma. Peppery notes. Hoppy spicey flavor. Bready and sweet. Finish is clean and crisp. Medium bodied. Nice beer. Drinkable.

Bottle... Clear yellow lager with a small, creamy, white head. Biscuity malt and spicy, peppery hops in the nose. The flavor is sweet toffee followed by moderate hop bitterness. Medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Short, crisp, clean finish.