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Hövels Original

Hövels Original

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An Amber Ale brewed by
Dortmunder Actien Brauerei (Oetker Group)

Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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912.99/5.02.99/5.05.5%50.6English pint, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Formerly known as "Hövels Original Bitterbier". Nowadays sold Germany-wide with the additive "Feinherbes Rotgold".

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 detroitsteel (209), Greater London, England
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20

Apr 30, 2008  
Bottle in Berlin, and what a nice bottle too: the flip top made an earshattering POP when flipped. Pours with lots of carbonation, but the head settles down into afairly loose head. A deep ruby red coloured body. Very dry, lots of hops and some limey citrus. Its like drinking a German version of a bitter, but served cold. Very light & refreshing with a long finish holding some sweet notes.

 Magicdave6 (4092), London, Greater London, England
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 18, 2008  
Bottle at quinns with mesandsim. Aroma is malt dominated, but theres some herbal hops too. Taste is decent balanced stuff, well carbonated and quite drinkable.


 Maria (4772), Thisted, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 18, 2008  
It’s a nice red-golden color and the head is huge and creamy. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel, The flavour has a light sweetness, notes of caramel, malt, dry citrus, that grows more dry throughout the entire finish.


 Nekronos (2017), Xalapa, Mexico
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Very nice, a little sweet but very strong. i liked the colour considering it was more than a lager.


 sirPino (625), Zawiercie / Żywiec, Poland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/514/20
Sep 4, 2008  
<b>No 539</b><br /> <b>Rated: 30.08.2008</b><br /> <b>Bottle green, 500 ml</b><br /> <b>Appearance: </b>Pours pure and perfectly clear, beautifull body colour and shiny, essentiall and deep amber colour of the body, carbonation is moderate to lively, saturation is quite high, head is isnitially deep, dense frothy, pillowy, off - white, bright beige, lacing is decent.<br /> <b>Aroma: </b>Very strong aroma of herbal - flowery inviting hops quite similar in its profile to those used in Bohemian Pilseners so Zatec or Saaz hop style, juicy, lemon, gentle notes of lime, orange, at closer sniff it is sweet malty and grainy, very well balanced and fat in maltyness, reminding best Bohemian Pilseners, notes of herbs, truffle, leafes, decent, whipped cream.<br /> <b>Flavour: </b>Front is very juicy and refreshing, fruity and floral accents of pine tree, resin, raisin, truffle, toffee, bark, gently woody, nice bitterness on palate biniding your tongue and releasing herbal noble slightly earthy hoppy nose, nice caramelly malt, pale malt, slightly toasty malt, gentle notes of almonds and pronounced note of marzipan, notes of wallnuts, finish duration is medium to long. A very refreshing beer.<br /> <b>Palate: </b>Body is medium, texture is rather dry, carboantion on palate is moderate to high, finish feel is very clean, moderately astringent, dry and gently ascoholic.<br />


 DerWeg (450), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 3, 2008  
Plain Jane beer &#40;bottle, Irish pub in Leipzig&#41; but impressive lacing and bubbles.Hops are fairly bitter. Likable though. Bartend lady gave me a free Radeberger to take home. Was she on crack?? I love her though still.



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