Headstrong Munich Lager

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Utica, New York USA

Golden lager with a thin dissipating white head. Crisp hops aroma with a rather sweet fruity esters wafting through. In mouth, a rather sweet lager with interesting sharp hops, lingering in mouth. The sweetness was a bit of a turnoff. LCBO.

650ml brown bottle purchased @ LCBO - where else? Pours golden amber, kinda orangy with small head that didn’t last too long but left pretty good lacing. Had a faint malty yet fruity aroma. Very good malty start that finished pretty good as well; kinda hoppy but not too much. Beats most lagers found in my area.

bottle pours a small creamy head with a nice goldish hew, a good taste sorta a gritty bitter with a smooth after taste and left a nice lacing down the glass. a very enjoyable beer will try again

Orangey yellow body, with a small white head. Grassy hops in the aroma. Light bitterness, grassy hops and grainy malt. Average palate. Not as good as the pale ale.

Bottle from Len. Thanks! Pours out a little darker brown than Im used to for the style. Taste is sweet and freshing, some hops, little heavy on the malt for me. Pretty refreshing, maybe a little too light on the carbonation. Not as good as the blond beer out of the can I just drank. Interesting twist on a helles though. Thanks!

650 ml bottle: Yum! Poured out an orangish/gold with little head. Amazing flavours going on in this one: malty, yet fruity and sweet all at the same time. Very mellow hops make this a tasty surprise.

650 ml brown bottle. Poured deep gold, small creamy white cap. Seems to be a slight haze. Malt aroma, slight flowery hop hiding beneath. Malt flavour, late hopping. Long malt hop finish with a touch of bitterness. Light body and carbonation, pretty drinkable.

650 mL bottle. Golden amber/orange colour with thin head. In style of dortmunder/export @ 5.5%. It calls itself a Munich lager so it should be leaning towards malty sweetness, and this one does (but there is some ingenious use of hops which really gives it a nice mellow bite). I might have had a less than fresh bottle from the LCBO but I see where this is going: well-balanced with a slick, sweet, almost citrus or spicy taste and not too bitter on the finish. This has a real malty presence but the slight sweetness gives it a nice long finish which isn’t overly bitter. Really well-made beer: mix it up & get this instead of your normal lager. Reminds me of really fresh Steam beer. This beer is so well crafted you can taste it for a while after you are done, and it tastes really "wet" (you know what I mean) which you can’t say for every lager out there. This is just a different level of lager that most wouldn’t be exposed to, an impressive lager really. Slightly increased alcohol content without ruining the over-all taste, brilliant.