Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Bottle thanks to Doug
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy honey color with a medium sized creamy white head and some lacing
Aroma: Biscuity, smokey, and honey
Taste: Semi-sweet malts, smokey and grainy
Ok.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Crystal clear golden color with thin white head. Aroma is mildly smoky with some sweet lager and grainy malts. Malty taste from the lightly roasted to sweeter malts. About midway a small bolt of smoke flavor surfaces and then disappears leaving a refreshing grainy malt flavor that lingers to the next sip. There is also a noticeable bitter hop presence throughout the taste profile. This beer manages to create a balance between the malts, hops and the smokiness. Excellent tasting beer. A great choice from Schlenkerla if you’re in the mood for a mild smoky beer as opposed to the pure smoky, smoldering embers they have managed with a few other beers.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 7

Bottle from Meny Grønland. Pours slightly hazy golden with a big white head. Sweet, malty and somewhat fruity without much bitterness. Just a hint of smoke. Slightly bitter finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

Bottle at home, pale golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, sweet, light grain. Taste is the same, sweet, malty, average helles.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours clear daffodil with a thick parchment head. Aroma delivers malty, fruity, wheat and smoky tones. Flavor presents smoky, malty, wheat, subtle citrus and hop resin. Texture features fair body and peppy fizz. Prost!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

500 ml capped bottle. Poured in the original Aecht Schlenkerla Willi becher a crystal-clear and golden yellow coloured Helles with a two fingers almost white, fine , dense and pillowy foamy head that had a no end retention and tons of micro bubbles. Soft carbonation. Great lacing. The aroma is toasted malts, a Rauch touch and herbal hops. The flavour is toasted malts, honey tones and, of course, a light to moderate Rauch feel. The mouthfeel is thin, round and smoked. A nice balance between the malts and the smoke. The texture is oily. This light bodied Helles has a dry smoked finish. A light Lager with a moderate smoked feel. Yes, this Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier, brewed without any Rauch malt, is easy accessible for everybody daring the first attempt and the try worth. I enjoyed it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Clear dark yellow, white lasting, lacing foam head. Great aroma for this style and nice bitter taste. Some smoke there too, propbably infused by the brewing process using the same kettles as their Rauchbier. Very, very nice. (Velp 201611)

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Sunshione in color. Moderately impressive head rising briefly above. Settles into a moderate sized ringlet. Not much of a smoked ale. More pale lager, with cereal grain notes and grassiness. Drinkable. But a bud comes to mind

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

500 ml bottle, from MENY Grønland Torg, Oslo. ABV is 4.3%. Pale yellow colour, large white head. Moderate aroma of smoked sausage. Ordinary helles flavour with a little smoke added. Moderate hops in the finish. Nice enough to drink, but did not blow my socks off.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

wow - i'm surprised at the lower scores. this helles lager acheives a far more subtle smokiness than the urbock (which is world-class) and the marzen (pretty dang good too) without the use of smoke. poured at 44 degrees, the aroma took a while to open up...at forst no hint of smoke, but once it breathed the aroma and flavor were just fantastic. typical helles color, but has an everlasting fluffy white head, and is quite smooth. i'm generally not a lager lover, but this well balanced lager would be good without the delicate smokiness, and is just plain delicious with it. another that i'd get all the time if it were available in a 4 or six pack, but even at $4.50 per 500ml I'll go back to it...probably several times over the summer.