New Belgium Summer Helles
New Belgium Summer Helles
Rated 2.686 by BeerPalsBrewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Fort Collins, CO, United States
Style: Helles / Dortmunder
5% Alcohol by Volume
31 International Bittering Units
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Light, bright and easy drinking, now is your chance to drink in the festival season. First brewed to celebrate 40 years of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, it has since become Planet Bluegrass’ signature New Belgium offering (under the name Summer Bliss). This Summer Helles pours a brilliant gold, with soft, white foam. The aroma is fresh grains and honey with a spicy-herbal twang. This danceable lager carries the pleasant sweetness of pale and German Pils malts, and levels off with the light and noble bitterness of Hallertau and Tettnang hops. Summer Helles finishes crisp and dry, and is sure to refresh even the thirstiest reveler. Grab your banjo, crack a bottle and let the pickin’ shine. SENSORY VISUAL Bright gold color with a slight sheen and a nice white foam. AROMA Fresh grains, herbaceous and spicy noble hops, sweet corn & honey (think honeycomb cereal), flinty lager sulfurs. FLAVOR Grassy sweet cereals upfront, evened out with a mild spicy hop bitterness. MOUTHFEEL Crisp with a subtle dryness, lingering pleasant lager finish. BODY Light body yet substantial, very sessionable. BEER FACTS ABV 5.0 IBU 31 YEAST Lager yeast CALORIES 155 HOPS Target, Tettnang, Hallertau MALTS Pale, Schill Pils
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Statistics
| Overall Rank | 53547 |
| Overall Percentile | 3.6 |
| Style Rank | 500 of 511 |
| Style Percentile | 2.2 |
| Lowest Score | 1.8 |
| Highest Score | 3.2 |
| Average Score | 2.450 |
| Weighted Score | 2.686 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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4 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5
Not a huge fan of this either. It's passable but I agree theres an odd vegetal aspect that threatens to drown out the spicy noble hops. OK at best as part of the NB mixer...
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Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4
Pours out a very clear extremely light yellow color and without a head. The aroma has a very faint lemon smell. The mouthfeel is smooth but very thin. The taste is really weak but clean. It's not a bad beer just very plain.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
Pours out a pale gold with a light haze. A good deal of bubbles in the body. Thin, white head. Smell is grainy, with some honey and faint fruit. Flavor is maltier than the smell would have you believe. There is a grainy character to it, but it isn't too overbearing. Mouthfeel is prickly, spritzy, and light-bodied. Overall, I like this for what it is, but it's not the best lager out there.
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Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4
12 oz bottle, enjoy by 10/5/14. Pours clear pale yellow with a medium creamy white head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is vegetal malts and floral noble hops.
The flavor is sweet vegetal malts with a spicy noble hop finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with slightly sharp carbonation.
Overall, not a great lager.
