On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, highly rated year-round Bavarian helles lager disappoints. Corny rice starching, sour lemon rotted spritz and hay-like barnyard acridity creep above buckwheat-pasted buttered biscuit base in tepid manner – despite its acclaim elsewhere.
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SCHILLING GLIMMEN SMOKED HELLES
On tap at Taphouse 15, unique Bavarian-styled golden helles lager utilizes Lukr Side Pour faucet to soften the foamily frothed creaminess heading the slightly cherrywood-mesquite smoked maize dryness and phenol hop spicing. But its desolate smokiness recedes too fast, leaving some aridity along the pilsner malted bottom. Easygoing lightweight fave.
RED OAK HUMMIN’ BIRD GOLDEN LAGER
“Cold aged” pale straw helles lager retains amber grained pilsner malting for herbal spiced Noble hops and slight nut breading. A tidy moderation.
SCHILLING PAULAS HELLES LAGER
On tap at Taphouse 15, musky Noble-hopped lemon herbage and straw-dried mineral graining given abrupt white-green peppering above doughy bread crusting.
SLOOP HELLES LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, sparkling lemon spritz gains lightly spiced pilsner malting and musty barnyard graining as mild fungi musk slips thru.
JACK’S ABBY HOUSE LAGER
On tap at Plank Pizza ’22, simply smooth helles lager provides muskily rustic Noble hop herbage, brisk lemon twist, pasty clay grouting and meager orange-oiled lemongrass snips to delicate salted cracker base, besting most stylistic competitors. On tap at Growler & Gill ’20, pleasant helles lager drapes dewy peat moss, dry stalked corn and grassy hop astringency over mild doughy wheat base. A fine rustic moderation.
THREES WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HELLES
On tap at Ambulance. Though spring flowered honey nectar description may be overstated, muted floral-daubed citrus spicing stays zestful as mild herbal whims waver over doughy white breading in crisply light-bodied setting.
UNTIED LONG DAYS SHORT YEARS HELLES LAGER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, sedate raw-honeyed citrus dryness permeates spongy sourdough bottom, picking up mild Noble-hopped herbage to contrast slight sugar-spiced lager malts.
FIDDLEHEAD HELLES LAGER
On tap at Plank Pizza, crisply clean bohemian lager relies on dry raw-grained minerality and salty floral herbage as grassy lemon-seeded astringency teases the musky finish.
COUNTER WEIGHT SMOKED EIN HELLES LAGER
On tap at Jealous Monk, mild beechwood smoke permeates desolate smoked meat wisp and slight herbal Hallertau-hopped pilsner malting of one-year anniversary smoked helles posing as a light-bodied, less flavorful rauchbier.
DROWNED LANDS FURROW KELLERBIER
On tap at Ambulance, dry pilsner-malted kellerbier (an unpasteurized cellared helles) retain smooth light-bodied accessibility, holding lemon-died grassy hop astringency in check.
SINGLECUT THE PLEASURE THE PRIVILEGE HELLES LAGER
On tap at Growler & Gill, musky wet-grained earthen pungency envelops sour lemondrop tartness and dry herbal hops above delicate rye-floured brown breading.