Mahrs Bräu Hell

Brewed by Mahrs Bräu
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Bamberg, Oberfranken/Bayern, Germany

Bottled: Hoppy aroma with grainy barley notes. Golden color, low white head. Lively carbonation. Sweetish malt flavor, light grainy and bready. Intensiv hop notes in the end, hayish, grassy. Dry bitter end. Weak and unbalanced.

Draught. White low lasting head. Cobber clear body. Should probably have been clear yellow. Maybe the room was a bit dark. Very weak almost non-esistant sweet barley malt aroma. Weak caramel hops flavor. Low carbonation. Short aftertaste. What a disappointment.

01-Jul-07 (500 ml bottle: Purchased 04-Oct-06 for $3.39 at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA) With the bready, grainy and slightly sweet malt attack and a soft, but pleasant background flavor of minimally bitter noble hop flavor, this is a pretty standard example of the style. The hops stays somewhat consistent from start to finish, but the bready malt turns downright doughy in the finish. The nose offers a similar profile, but is perhaps a bit more intensely bready than the flavor. Still, though, the noble hop aroma comes through. Medium in both body and carbonation level, with a slight hop cleasing, but not nearly enough to make the beer crisp and refreshing. Yellow to pale golden color is marred by a bit of unrelenting haziness, but the tall and creamy, white head is a beauty when the beer is poured. As the head settles to a wide ring, patches and spots of lace remain on the glass. A decent Helles, but not one that is likely to win me over as a repeat buyer.

Draft but in the US, so it was a bit skunky. Would have been good if it was fresh - lots of hops & some complexity.

(500 ml bottle ("bottled on 5 0 22") from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank>Downeast Beverage Co.) Pours hazy gold-yellow with three fingers of fairly foamy white head. Aroma of bread with honey. Mouthfeel smooth, on the lighter side but probably about right for a helles. Nice rings of lacing. Flavor is light, sweet honeyish malt with a light pine bitterness that kind of tickles the tongue. Some light soapy sourishness in warmer samples.

On draught at Reading BF 2007. Gold, thin white head. It’s a lager. Not a very good one either. Bit pukey, no great body. No great hop either.

Golden with a good sized head. The aroma is sweet and grainy with warm bread and some freshly clipped grass. It tastes of sweet grainy malts with a mild lemony tartness and a soft grassy bitterness. An uncomplicated, sessionable Dortmunder.

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Smells okay, a little grasssy. Is not complex, but is refreshing. A little something in the finish that I don’t like, maybe too grassy? Still, pretty good.