Triumph Dortmunder Export

Brewed by Triumph Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Princeton, New Jersey USA

at Princeton Dortmunder Export–growler-pours a white head that laces and yellow/gold color. Aroma is mild bread/light malt, grassy. Taste is bread/light malt, grassy/spice[?] hops. Leans to a creamy mouth feel and medium body instead of effervescent and light body.

Objectively speaking: Clean and tasty blonde lager from a hand-bottle generously brought by Paul.
I like: Well-extracted pils malt flavours. Gently bready, soft, almost doughy and fresh, albeit not bursting with freshness. Active and engaging carbonaton does not manage to enliven the mouthfeel to crispiness level, it remains rather round, even for the style. Soft herbal hop aromas seem to evoke a certain mineral aspect that works well despite the beer being a lager.
I dislike: While the beer is never too sweet, it does not evolve much towards dryness as the finish approaches. As a result, it seems a bit sweet in the finish, as if it forgot to evolve. Not as refreshing as the top examples with regards to that.

My Bottom Line:
Bready and honeyed ramifications ebb into crisp cereals as polite herbal hoppiness trickles onto the flavor profile and finish of this cheerful Dortmunder.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A thin slice of foam floats atop the shiny, clear golden.
-The mouthfeel is extremely clean and quite well rounded.
-I felt like this was on the malty side of things; hoppiness could have been a little brighter to achieve balance. But then again, maybe it came out as intended.
-This is extremely drinkable, yet fails to have me long for more like a TDD Germaine can (for example).

Hand-bottled; thx Paul!

2008-05-31. Crisp yellow body with a small white head. Sweet, floral hops in the aroma, touch of buttercup. (6+) Mild grains, more buttercup like floral hops in the flavour, very light bitterness. Average to light palate. Meh, decent example of a style I’m not particularly fond of. Hand bottled shared by Dickinsonbeer, Post-Mondial Tasting, Montreal

Draft. Pours a golden body with a white head. Bread y grain body, light hay and wheat notes. Simple thin session ale. Decent enough.

Tap at Princeton. Pours a nice clear medium to light golden, lively carbonation and a nice rocky lasting pure white head- with awesome lace. Aroma is insanely fresh pilsner malt, very bready and doughy, with a clean balanced earthy and spicy hop profile- also some sweet malt hints- trace hint of sulfur but you have to search for it. Flavor is crisp and clean with tons of fresh bready malts, light dough and cracker- some sugary full sweetness, and a mineral-like character in the very end. Bigger body than most lagers like this, and I have a feeling this is more than just 5%. Great representation of a dortmunder, and an awesome lager all around.

Pours a clear gold color with a thin white head. Pleasant aroma of malt, some honeyish sweetness and hops. Good balanced flavor of hops, malt and some honeyish sweetness. The body is light while the carbonation is gentle. Interesting.

In short: Nice blonde session lager. Well brewed, nothing stands out.
How: Post-Mondial 2008 tasting session. Hand-bottles brought to Montreal by Dickinsonbeer. Paul rules!
The look: Clear blonde body topped by a small white head
In long: Unmistakable larger sensation, some fruity notes of citrus and pineapples, some dry grassy hops in the finish. This is a nice little session lager, well made, well balanced but not very memorable. Highly drinkable even if nothing special. I cannot really tell you how true to the Dortmunder it is as I’m really not familiar enough with the style. I am actually so unfamiliar with the style that until recently I thought a Dortmunder was a Star Wars villain.