Löwenbräu Original

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

A yellow beer with a fine white collapsing head. The aroma is very grassy and sweet and hoppy. The flavor is dry hoppy on a good malty background.

(Bottle 50 cl) Original German version. Fully golden with a fairly decent head. Very malty with a nice, smooth sweetness. Soft with a rather subdued bitterness. Excellent lager indeed. 190100
(Can 50 cl) Swedish version brewed by Spendrup’s at 5,4% ABV. Fully golden, nice head. Full and sweetish Helles with nice aroma-hops and a pronounced bitterness. 5/2/5/3/10=2,5 101003

50 cL can. Pours hazy yellow with a diminished white head. Mild cornish and light wheaty aroma. Smooth malty and slight cornish flavoured. Light bitterness into a smooth light malty finish.

Canned at Nordic Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pale yellow, faint head. Papery malty aroma. Sweet with reasonably soft mouthfeel and meduim body. Cardboardy malt flavor, very light grassy hoppiness . Low bitterness. Not good, but getting new ratings in Bangladesh is a difficult art form.

Can 50cl.
Clear light yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, cabbage water, cardboard. Flavor is light sweet and sour malt with a average duration. Body is light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20081121]

Bottle, 5.2%. Citric and grainy aroma. Celar golden colour. Small white head, quite stable. The flavour is not much better than the aroma, quite citric. Not unpleasant, but not good either. The alcohol gives a good feel to it though, as I find is often the case with German beers above 5% ABV.

Canned. Dark golden colour, mediumsized creamy head. Brady malt in aroma. Bready malt in flavour with hoppy finish. Soft and smooth.

Canned. Clear yellow coloured with a medium sized white head. Aroma of malts and spices with notes of caramel and yeast. Flavour of malts with notes of hops, spices and caramel. Hoppy finish.