Helles Out Of Dodge
Sweetwater Tavern
- From:
- Sweetwater Tavern
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 8.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 29, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 01, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by joerodiii from New York
3.8/5 rDev +12.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev +12.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This beer is very close to being a dead-on Helles. It is a very clean lager that really lets the blend of Munich and Vienna malts shine. This is not a macro style lager, no way, no how!
Straw yellow color with a moderate head. Aroma is sweet and grainy with a hint of alcohol. The taste is malty without being sweet. The only issue I had with the taste is that it is too bitter for the style. This beer is well balanced, but a helles shouldn't be...not that there is anything wrong with that...
If more brewers made good helles, more BMC drinkers would get turned on to real beer.
May 26, 2009Straw yellow color with a moderate head. Aroma is sweet and grainy with a hint of alcohol. The taste is malty without being sweet. The only issue I had with the taste is that it is too bitter for the style. This beer is well balanced, but a helles shouldn't be...not that there is anything wrong with that...
If more brewers made good helles, more BMC drinkers would get turned on to real beer.
Reviewed by gbarron from Georgia
3.47/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.47/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Currently on draft at the Merrifield location.
A - straw golden yellow, perfectly clear. Small head of large, bright white bubbles forms and dissipates fairly quickly. Looks tasty.
S - nice lager aroma here, no dms to be found. Very bready. Smells like fresh grains, wheat running through your fingers. Slight spicy hop notes, but main aromas are grain.
T - bready, average bitterness. Residual sweetness balances out grainy astringency. Some fresh floral hop flavor, but primary taste is of fresh bread, milled grains, and malty sugar.
M - thin, but seems a little overcarbonated. Very large CO2 bubbles, a little tickle on your tongue.
D - high carbonation filled me up quickly and the malt sweetness became a little too much. An above average helles, but not my favorite style to begin with. Nice to see a clean one being freshly made, however.
May 05, 2006A - straw golden yellow, perfectly clear. Small head of large, bright white bubbles forms and dissipates fairly quickly. Looks tasty.
S - nice lager aroma here, no dms to be found. Very bready. Smells like fresh grains, wheat running through your fingers. Slight spicy hop notes, but main aromas are grain.
T - bready, average bitterness. Residual sweetness balances out grainy astringency. Some fresh floral hop flavor, but primary taste is of fresh bread, milled grains, and malty sugar.
M - thin, but seems a little overcarbonated. Very large CO2 bubbles, a little tickle on your tongue.
D - high carbonation filled me up quickly and the malt sweetness became a little too much. An above average helles, but not my favorite style to begin with. Nice to see a clean one being freshly made, however.
Reviewed by RBorsato from Virginia
2.96/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.96/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Straw colored with a light chill haze, nice active carbonation, and a decent white head that turns to a lasting ring. Grainy malt aroma and flavor with a strange almost adjunct-like character. Light bodied with a crisp malty dry finish.
OK at $6/growler but would have been disappointed at $4.50/pint... surprisingly macro-ish.
Note: This review was based on a growler from the Centreville, VA location. 5.7% ABV per the chalkboard at the brewpub.
($6.00 / Growler fill)
Apr 11, 2006OK at $6/growler but would have been disappointed at $4.50/pint... surprisingly macro-ish.
Note: This review was based on a growler from the Centreville, VA location. 5.7% ABV per the chalkboard at the brewpub.
($6.00 / Growler fill)
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