Original 16 Helles Half Acre
Great Western Brewing
- From:
- Great Western Brewing
- Saskatchewan, Canada
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 2.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.93 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 27, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 17, 2020
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.93/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.93/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
355ml can - not sure which Hell's Half Acre this one's punny moniker is referring to, but the half-strength in the ol' wowee sauce department sure stands out.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves a bit of spattered snow rime lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a bit of apple and pear underripe fruitiness, some estery yeast, and plain earthy, musty, and dead floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some damp minerality, ephemeral pome fruity notes, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as an uncertain wet cardboard essence 'evolves' once we get anywhere near room temperature. It finishes trending dry, that packaging material unpleasantness ramping things up.
Overall - yeah, this is yet another cheaply-rendered version of an old-world style, made 'authentically' under the guise of adherence to some idea of simplicity, or some such shit. Not worth it, even at the Twoonie Bin price, when the times call for much, much stronger swill.
Mar 27, 2020This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves a bit of spattered snow rime lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a bit of apple and pear underripe fruitiness, some estery yeast, and plain earthy, musty, and dead floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some damp minerality, ephemeral pome fruity notes, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as an uncertain wet cardboard essence 'evolves' once we get anywhere near room temperature. It finishes trending dry, that packaging material unpleasantness ramping things up.
Overall - yeah, this is yet another cheaply-rendered version of an old-world style, made 'authentically' under the guise of adherence to some idea of simplicity, or some such shit. Not worth it, even at the Twoonie Bin price, when the times call for much, much stronger swill.
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