Ettaler Kloster Edel-Hell

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

Pour is a golden with a white head. Aroma is lots of grain and very doughy. Flavor is very decent. Lots of dry malts that balance a nice sweet hop. A very clean tasting beer. This brewer is one of my favs from Germany.

in bottle. a summer beer, with a medium yellow color and llingering hop oils on the tongue. Aroma is like fresh mowed grass. refreshing and interesting.

500 mL bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville, VA. A bit of a gusher. Pours a clear golden color with a medium head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma is sweet grains with very faint grassy hops. Taste is sweet grains, bread, light corn and a faint bitter, metallic hop finish. Thin-medium bodied. 5/4/6/3/12

Bottle. A little disappointing considering the other Ettaler products I’ve tried. Golden color, thin head. Very easy drinking, but has substance behind it. The taste wasn’t necessarily citrusy, but did, oddly, remind me of 7-UP. 5/4/6/4/12

In the 500 mL bottle from the Huber Haus. Pours a hazy butterscotch golden color with a medium white head that is moderately retentive. Good thick palate to such a light beer. Strong malty taste of toasted almonds. Faintly lemon tart finish. This seems very strong for a helles. The only flaw is a slight benzene-like chemical numbing of the tongue. Has a mildy staw-like aroma with a splash of Hall’s Menthol-lyptus tossed in. This is a fun beer and I feel it is currently underappreciated with an overall score of 2.9!

Pours a three-finger white head that fades quickly to a ring leaving virtually no lace. Clear amber color. Slight malty nose. Light carbonation and medium bodied. Flavor is balanced with some sweetness, clean finish. $2.99 for a 500ml bottle from Tully’s Beer & Wine Wells, Me.

Light golden color with a taller, fluffy, slightly diminishing slightly yellow tinted white head. Pale malt (flour and dough0 and just a hint of floral hops. Dry malt flavors and a crisp dry grass hop flavor. A touch of resin the flavor as well. I can see, that if this was not fresh it would not rate well. There is a crispness in a fresh sample that would be lost. A lightly toasted malt finish that continues into the linger and finds a touch of floral hops again. A nice Helles.

Bottle, 5.2%. Clear golden colour, small white head. Sparkling. The flavour is just a rather rough bitterness, nothing much else.

Clear golden body with a medium frothy white head. Light honey and grassy hops aroma. Sweet grassy flavor with some light honey and a hint of bitter.