Andechser Spezial Hell

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

50cl bottle pours clear gold with thin white head. The mild aroma is a little spicy with hops, a bit sugary with malts sort of a mineral to metal notes. The taste begins with a mild level of spicy hops and a good bit of sugary malts. To midway the spicy hops jump up in bitterness and at times get to a slightly sharp metallic note. The hops are met with a modest amount of grainy malts and ride into the finish. The after taste has lingering spicy hops that are still leaning more sharp bitterness than flavor hops.

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

50cl bottle from a spätkauf in Friedrichshain. Pours clear pale golden with a white head. Malty aroma with some fruity notes and hints of grass. Moderate sweet and bready with a fairly light bitterness. Decent helles.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Bottle: Poured a golden amber with fluffy white head. Rich malt aroma with a hint of hops. Rich metal malt flavor.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Clear pale yellow, no foam left. Typical barley aroma, little weak taste. Another ’normal’ German beer, but nothing wrong and a good drink for this day. (Velp 201507)

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Always a treat getting this beer. This is what a German lager should be. A beautiful gold color with some darker hues, the rocky cap is snow white. Aroma is malt and grains with some fruit notes (apples/pears) and the flavor is pretty much the same. Best when had in Germany, quite good in New Jersey too!

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

I remember when we bought this beer at The Beer Store back in the day. It's was a nice go-to tasty beer and quite a treat, coming from Brick Brewing (ok, it was contracted). Poured a golden lager colour with a decent frothy head that created lots of lacing. Bread-like cereal malts aromas with some light yeast. German malt taste with light hops and spices. I miss this one for my bands jams early 2000s. Was Brick's best brew.

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

500 ml capped bottle. Poured a clear golden-yellow or amber-orange coloured Helles with a two fingers white creamy foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Active carbonation. Some lacing. The aroma is sweety malts, grain, straw, moderate grassy hops. The flavour is moderate sweety malts and also a moderate grassy hops bitterness.The mouthfeel is crispy and smooth. This medium bodied Helles has a dry slight bitter finish. A solid and very nice Helles from a mythical bavarian Kloster Brauerei.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Poured a bright, clear golden yellow with a foamy white head vom Faß at the Andechs Bräustüberl. Slightly sour nose of grain and grass. Full round palate but with a crisp bitter edge. Flavors of fresh grain with the same sour bitterness in the finish as in the dopplebock. Excellent complement to my roasted schwein haxe.

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

Bottled (thanks SHIG). Yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is malts and hops with slightly grassy notes. Flavour is quite much the same along with mild caramelly notes. OK, but nothing really exciting.

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

500 ml bottle, bought in Germany. ABV is 5.9%. Pale golden colour, large and lingering white head. Fruity and grassy aroma, some malty sweetness too. Soft mouthfeel, moderate carbonation, moderate but decent hops well balanced with the pale malts. I am rarely "swept away" by a helles (nor by any other type of pale lagers, for that matter), not by this one either - but the Andechser Spezial is a well made and very drinkable helles, as far as helles go. Kloster Andechs is probably one of Germany’s best breweries overall.