Löwenbräu Original

Brewed by Löwenbräu Munich (InBev)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Munich, Germany

This was my first-ever German beer and it was disappointing that having one after so many years that I could not rate it higher. From the can it poured a nice, medium gold colour with a moderate white foamy head. Aroma is slight and pleasant, being mostly hops. Taste is clean and smooth, although I found it a bit on the light side.

Can. High and lasting white creamy head leaving nice lacings. Clear yellow body. Sweet barley malt aroma with grassy notes. Thin and sweet bread hay grass flavor with low carbonation and a short aftertaste.

Pours golden with reasonable head that dies in a minute or so. Smell of bready yeast, hop notes, slight skunk. Taste was nice and crisp, strong hops with a slight sour bread taste hiding underneath. Finish is very grainy, with slight bitterness. Decent example of this style, but I’ve had better for cheaper. Worth a try, but be sure to chill it well.

Smell is yeasty and very faint skunkiness. Color is clear and gold, probably. Why dirty up a glass for this. Taste is crisp and clean up front with a yeasty, doughy finish to it. Moderately bitter and grassy from the hops and the finish of yeast flavor makes it less drinkable than it otherwise would be.

No: 741
Rated: 27.06.2009
Bottle brown, 500 ml,11.8 P, got it in Munchen
Appearance: Pours pale yellowish golden body, brighter than previously rated Lowenbrau Akloholfrei with its gravity of 7.2 P!!! Vividly carbonated, snowy white head, frothy, initially medium, slowly decreasing to small, nice lacing, head is lasting and not diminishing, body is very clear.
Aroma: Very characteristic flowery sweet hoppy touches easily associated with the style of Helles. Alcohol is quite well felt but it is not disturbing and working together with hoppy profile for the style characteristic, gentle note of whipped cream and kind of oily oriented malty base in aroma.
Flavour: Typically dusty - chalky, slightly spicy, flowery - sweet hoppy profile, oily impression of beer texture, metalic impression in mouth, still clean and clear, very freshly brewed, just as straight from brewery line, easy going, reduced hoppy bitterness making the beer more easy going, very nice overall impression, soft aftertaste, finish duration is short.
Palate: Body is light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation on palate is moderate, finish feel is spicy, metalic, dusty, quite clean with gently flowery - spicy nose.

Bottle at a party. Poured yellow with lots of head. week malts, with little hops. Very sweet, macro tasting beer.

Sampled in Berlin. An average german hell. Pours light with big head but very minimal taste. Spices are weak. Aftertaste is fair.