Three Floyds Gorch Fock Helles

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Munster, Indiana USA

22 oz bottle. Pours a nice light golden color with a small white head. Aroma of hops, malt and bread dough. The taste is crisp with a light citrus and wheat overtone. Light, dry and refreshing. Extremely smooth and easy to drink. Has a slight hop bittterness in the tasty finish. Very nice and I guess I am a little surprised that there aren’t more higher ratings of this beer than there are.

Poured a dark golden color with a small, white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of toasty dough, light floral hops, and grainy malts. Taste of more toasty dough, dry, with a bit of citrus, and perhaps even some corn? Overall, not bad, just not on par with other 3F’s beers i’ve had. Thanks John!

22oz bottle shared courtesy of axilla. Poured a medium to deep and cloudy golden color with a small sizzed white head. Aromas and tastes of grass, grainy, floral and light citrus. Thinner body.

Poured hazy golden orange with a smaller bubbly white head. Aroma was grassy, pilsner malt, cereal grains and floral notes. Flavor of sweet cereal grains and some citrus.

(22 oz. bottle via trade with <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=3 target=blank>EithCubes, thanks Mike!) Pours hazy pale yellow with two fingers of white head. Aroma of honeyish malt. Mouthfeel smooth, refreshing, lightly prickly, dryish finish. Flavor is fairly reserved - honey, light hay. As it warms there is some breadiness and a very light citrus note in finish. Light bitter bite from fore through finish. Pretty good, could be a bit meatier.

Bomber pours a pale yellow body with a small white head. Aroma is simple, with grainy pale malts, floral hops, and a hint of honey and lemon. Light to light medium body with crisp carbonation. Taste is grainy sweet malt kissed by a soft hop bitterness that is lemony, floral, and slightly spicy. Tastes more like a good German kolsh than a helles. I really like this one. It would make a fine session brew if it were more affordable.

bomber. apricot colored clean and calm looking beer. little if any head. low and mellow grainy aroma has a citrus kiss. crisp clean and balanced. easy drinking simple but elegant lager. let me just comment that all the hype must have gone to these guys heads. if lagunitas and bear republic can release top notch high quality beers for under $4 and $5, then why does this average should-be-in-a-sixer-for-$6.99 beer cost $9.99 a bomber?! frankly this kind of gouging is rubbing me the wrong way and i don’t care how good dark lord is, i’ll drink something else.

650 ml. bomber bottle, no freshness date, I’m not sure what the picture on the label is trying to say, homage to departed whalers? Oh well, sampled in a pilsener glass. Not completely clear, there is a slight hazy towards the top, golden lager color, large frothy, foamy white head that slowly dissipates into a thin creamy foam lacing, nothing in the way of laced sticking. Aromas of musty grains, sweet pale malts and lemony, flowery hops, a simple nose, but effective. Smooth medium body, I could have used a little more carbonation for an airy creaminess that first rate Munich Helles lagers have. Musty honey grains with a light sweet fruitiness. Lemony, herbal leafy hops that are mildly bitter, turn a soft, delicate spicy at the end. Semi-dry grainy finish, a little spiciness linger on the tongue. True to the style, but not in the upper echelon of Munich Helles Lagers, a near miss.