Wanderer - Callista
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

 

Hadon tap at Sandwich. Pours slightly murky, gold in color with one inch head. Taste is cereal and earthy hops. Crisp, light body, moderate carbonation, slightly bitter. Gets a lot better as it warms. Solid helles. Not on par with the Germans but good.

 

 

Doesn’t resemble a Helles in the slightest . . . but a tasty hoppy lager nonetheless. The base beer reigns supreme.

Before I was able to contemplate this beer, it took me an inordinately long amount of time to shake out the culture shock of the dichotomous absurdity that is the Charlton experience on a perfect autumn morning, but the quality of the beer truly did help me get out of that funk.

Poured from a side pull, the appearance is clear gold with thickly dense foam head exhibiting a solidly creamy retention leaving defined layers of lace after each sip.

This helles is absurdly soft and fluffy up front, while finely crisp in the middle, delivering very delicate malt qualities of white cornbread and faint corn nuts balanced by the subtlest floral hop presence I can hardly put my finger on. I just love the firm fizz, which over time adds even more heft. Savory corn also blooms more in that time.

I didn't even know Tree House was focusing so intensely on slow pour lagers, but damn am I glad they are.

 

 

16 oz can poured into a tulip pint glass. Pours an ever so slightly cloudy straw yellow with a creamy head. Decent retention and lacing. Aroma and flavor feature bready/biscuity malt with herbal/grassy hops with a hint of citrus or stone fruit. More hops than I like in a helles, but that's kind of the point. Do I particularly like the extra hoppiness? No. But this came as part of a variety 12-pack, so I'm drinking it. It's enjoyable but I prefer the base beer.

Taste more like a Pilsner.is it obviously more happy which makes sense since they dry hopped it but also the bitterness. Doesn’t quite have the level of multi Ness necessary to be categorized as a Hallies to me.

 

 

 

Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Tree House in Sandwich for about fourteen dollars. My two hundred and twelfth brew from these guys. Canned on date of 11/5/21. Not my favorite style, but well made.