Weeping Radish Corolla Gold Helles Lager

Brewed by Weeping Radish Farm Brewery
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Jarvisburg, North Carolina USA

Corrolla Gold pours to a beautiful, bright, deep golden color with a thick white head, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is exceptional. Crisp aromas of pale malt are balanced to perfection with grassy hop aromas. The palate is firm with lots of good, crisp pale malt flavors, with a very round, smooth, and clean malt body. Corrolla Gold finishes with more great pale malt flavors up front, and is balanced to perfection with some grassy hop bitterness. This beer is an impressive domestic version of helles. It was pure bliss as a beer lover to drink liters of this beer, fresh on draught in the beer hall restaurant.

My parents once owned a Toyota Corolla, but it was nothing like this Weeping Radish Corolla. The Toyota was far more enjoyable (albeit more expensive). The beer is quite malty for a Helles and is a bit sweet. Light bitterness. In short, a typical Helles thought not as dry and also a bit maltier.

12-oz. bottle. Pours pale gold with lots of tiny, fast-rising bubbles and a tiny white rocky head that quickly diminishes to a patchy film. Light buttery malt (biscuit, grain) and yeast (sweat) aroma with some fruit (grape) notes. Malty yeast, slightly sour and sweaty, flavor with very low acidity and bitteness, some tart hops and grassy notes near the end. Medium to light bodied, fizzy-spicy palate, clean and quite refreshing.

The bottle I sampled was brewed in Baltimore, MD. Golden body, thin head some creaminess but really nothing in the way of flavor going on here. Corolla had a macro blandness to it.

Bottle: Pale golden, clear, moderate pancake batter like head, white, so-so lacing, little to no carbonation.   Very subtle sweet grass aroma, translating to an even softer malty sweet grass flavor.   A bit on the thin side.   Not bad, fairly clean, but fairly average, and fairly boring.   Meh...

12 oz. bottle. Clear gold with a white head. Clean taste, light body, with a faint hop presence. Refreshing subtle bitterness in the finish. Drinkable, a pretty good Dortmunder.

Draught at the brewpub. Golden clear color. Not much head. A bit of lace. Hoppy nose with a bit of hop flavor. Grainy aftertaste. Easy to drink, but didn;t dazzle me.

Very drinkable, with a crisp finish. I note sourgrass/hay to the nose, and it pours golden with a nominal head and lace. This beer goes down very easily; very clean with a smooth bread malt and light hop back. I think "thin" is a better adjective than "watery", as the medium/medium-light mouthfeel is more conducive to drinkability. Definitely a thirst-quencher, and not a bad output by the Weeping Radish.