Holy Helles Gone Wild
Bullfrog Brewery
- From:
- Bullfrog Brewery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 0.28%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2009
- Added:
- Mar 07, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Kegatron from Pennsylvania
3.55/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the brewpub on 3/6/09. Served in a cervoise. This was a special keg from their usual monthly Friday night "Kegs Gone Wild" series.
Pours a hazy pinkish orange hue, with a thin head of brite-white foam. Retains with a rich look that throws a big creamy cascade of lacing up on the sides of the glass. The aroma smells immediately of grapefruit and other tart, citric notes that puncuate the nose right from the start. Additional deep tart funkiness emerges as well, along with some underlying bready sweetness and floral notes that amazingly somehow come out to play amidst all of their "wild surroundings".
The taste is quite similar, with a deep and zesty crisp tartness to the profile that tastes just like a freshly squeezed glass of grapefruit juice. Sweetness actually comes out a good bit more as this warms, lessening the tartness somewhat and providing a pleasant balance between the two. A touch of bitterness livens up the back a bit. Not a lot but enough to accentuates the crisp nature of the profile. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a prickly feel up front that (that brings out the tart crispness) then lowers as it hits the back of throat, allowing the flavors to slide down easily. This feels just about right to me, considering the flavors at work.
Wow, this was interesting. Leave it up to the Bullfrog to take a Helles Lager, add some wild yeasties, and voila!; instant grapefruit juice! But hey, that's what this series is all about. Your bound to get some weird and different shit out of each experimentation!
Mar 09, 2009Pours a hazy pinkish orange hue, with a thin head of brite-white foam. Retains with a rich look that throws a big creamy cascade of lacing up on the sides of the glass. The aroma smells immediately of grapefruit and other tart, citric notes that puncuate the nose right from the start. Additional deep tart funkiness emerges as well, along with some underlying bready sweetness and floral notes that amazingly somehow come out to play amidst all of their "wild surroundings".
The taste is quite similar, with a deep and zesty crisp tartness to the profile that tastes just like a freshly squeezed glass of grapefruit juice. Sweetness actually comes out a good bit more as this warms, lessening the tartness somewhat and providing a pleasant balance between the two. A touch of bitterness livens up the back a bit. Not a lot but enough to accentuates the crisp nature of the profile. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a prickly feel up front that (that brings out the tart crispness) then lowers as it hits the back of throat, allowing the flavors to slide down easily. This feels just about right to me, considering the flavors at work.
Wow, this was interesting. Leave it up to the Bullfrog to take a Helles Lager, add some wild yeasties, and voila!; instant grapefruit juice! But hey, that's what this series is all about. Your bound to get some weird and different shit out of each experimentation!
Reviewed by akorsak from Pennsylvania
3.58/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Part of the Kegs Gone Wild Series, a Munich helles lager that has been funkified.
A: The lager is straw yellow, pale and only mildly cloudy. A finger of head dissapated over the first quarter of the glass.
S: The nose is very funky, laden with brett and a horseblanket wildness. There is little evidence of the toasted helles lager.
T: The funk and a mild tartness really dominate the front of the beer. The tartness is not too sour and it has some pear and green apple behind it. Through the first half of the glass, the tartness dominates. Only late in the game does the toasted, malty lager side really appear.
M: The mouthfeel is piquant, lively and tart. A helles lager is, however, an interesting choice to funk up.
D: An interesting one-off, although that is par for the course with Kegs Gone Wild.
Mar 07, 2009A: The lager is straw yellow, pale and only mildly cloudy. A finger of head dissapated over the first quarter of the glass.
S: The nose is very funky, laden with brett and a horseblanket wildness. There is little evidence of the toasted helles lager.
T: The funk and a mild tartness really dominate the front of the beer. The tartness is not too sour and it has some pear and green apple behind it. Through the first half of the glass, the tartness dominates. Only late in the game does the toasted, malty lager side really appear.
M: The mouthfeel is piquant, lively and tart. A helles lager is, however, an interesting choice to funk up.
D: An interesting one-off, although that is par for the course with Kegs Gone Wild.
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