Weltenburger Barock Hell

Pours a clear yellow with white head. Sweet malt, hints of fruit and bread, caramel, and floral hops. Pretty nice beer, worth a try.

Buona helles di Weltenburger, all’aroma è fragrante come il pane della mattina alle 6 del pomeriggio, al sapore sviluppa carezzevoli note sbruciacchiate che ne mettono in evidenza la notevole genuinità. Spillata a caduta alla Bierhaus di Brescia.

This is a good, tasty helles. It has a gold body with huge, off-white head, slowly shrinking. The aroma is wonderful, full-bodied, and complex, with lots of bread, hay, juniper, herbs, honey. The palate is a bit on the thin side but the taste is nice, crips, and well-rounded with honey, herbs, bread, lemon.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yelow with a diminished white head. Mild fruity and spiced hops aroma. Flavour is mild fruity and light spiced. Crisp and bitter. Nice fruity finish with a slowly increasing bitterness. Vague dry breadish malt flavour too.

Excerpted from my review at cvillebeergeek.blogspot.com.... Appearance: Poured into a standard pint glass, this beer is indeed pale. A crystal clear straw color with crisp looking carbonation bubbles. A large head appears on top of the beer, but it disappears fairly quickly. Uneven specks of lacing appear on the side of the glass. 3.5/5.0.

Aroma: Malty indeed. A sweet grainy aroma is very assertive. Almost like sticking your nose into a box of cereal. Behind that are subtle grassy hop notes. 3.5/5.0

Taste: Very similar to the aroma. Sweet and grassy. There is still a strong grainy cereal note here, but the hops are more noticeable, taking hold of your tongue and growing in intensity as you drink more. The whole effect works pretty well. 3.7/5.0

Mouthfeel: The carbonation feels soft on the tongue, leading the slightly sticky medium body of the beer to take the forefront. The beer feels smooth overall, though I would like the carbonation to take a more active role. But, I am a carbonation nut, so take that for what it’s worth. 3.0/5.0

Drinkability: I spent three and a half hours earlier tonight nursing a 750 mL 11% abv barrel aged sour ale. Compared to that, anything is drinkable. At 5.6% abv, this is high for the style, but still very manageable for all but the most neophyteish. This one goes down really easy, but also brings with it some flavor. Really, it’s everything you could ask for from this style. 4.5/5.0.

Overall. One of the good things about German beer is that compared to a lot of other regions, it is affordable. Even after being shipped in glass across an ocean, this 500 mL bottle set me back $3.39 at Wine Warehouse. They have other good options, like Tucher and Ayinger, even less than that. Back to this one, a smooth, tasty, well balanced beer. Well done. 3.85/5.0.