Hirter 1270
Brauerei Hirt GmbH

 

On tap.
Clear amber body with an average, frothy, off-white head, mostly lasting with some lacing.
Moderate malty (caramel) aroma with light notes of dried fruits.
Light-to-moderate sweet and light bitter flavour; average-lasting sweet finish.
Light-to-medium body with watery-to-oily texture; soft carbonation.

 

 

Deep amber colored body. Crystal clear. Small fine white head.
Smells mainly of the malt. Typical amber of amber colored beers. Bready.
Taste is a pleasant surprise for me. Most of the amber colored beers express a certain metallic aftertaste that tastes like vomit to me. This one is different. It tastes bready and ends on spicy hop bitterness that keeps the malt perfectly in check.
Lager mouthfeel. Maybe a little more body. Fine prickling carbonation.
Still not my favourite style of beer, but really tasty the way it is.

 

Pours a nice copper colour but presented virtually no head, just a little peaking on the edge of the glass. Has a nice malty smell and a citrus smell that reminders me of mandarin oranges. Not sure about the taste, it almost tasted like I was eating a piece of dark rye bread and it almost had a medicinal tinge to it. The carbonation is there in the mouth but disappears very fast. Different and not one of my favourites of the calender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is beer 17 from the Rieder advent calendar. Pours a nice amber colour, light aroma, smells like a lager. Minimal lacing. The flavour from this is like a blip on a heart rate monitor: it only lasts a split-second and you barely even notice it because there's a million others like it. Moving on, there is a slight bready malt flavour, and a mildly sweet lager finish. Nothing much else of note. Not offensive in the least, but nothing worth repeating either. Additional note: I had the second half of this beer while eating onion rings, the pairing was great and made both items taste better.

330mL btl poured into a tulip. Served at 4C and tasted at 8C.

Slightly hazy copper-ruby pour with a nice 6-8 cm head that fades to a thin film with solid ring and sporadic but fair lacing. It looks quite carbonated but that may be due to the laser etching in the glass.

A nose of sweet peasant breads, floral with notes of straw, soft, juicy fruit and grassy-leafy yeast and hops.

Moderate sweetness balanced with a light bitter, farmhouse funk. Caramel and a jammy-juicy preserved fruits, and a clingy sugar and yeasty finish. Very much a chewy bread quality that is more in the texture than flavour.

Mouth feel is thick and smooth. The carbonation livens up the experience on the palate a little but the start is smooth a LITTLE liveliness in the center and a long fat, clingy and generally unrepentant texture is not good.

While it doesn't come across as cheap and some of the higher rated beers I have had, there it does not come together as well as it should. Most notably on the long fat and lazy finish. It looks nice enough ad smells OK, but the flavour the mouth feel really let it down. I will NOT be drinking this again even if I can find it.

330ml bottle, day 17 of the 2012 Craft Beer calendar. The bottle in hand is neither as green, nor the label as hideously plain as the one depicted herein.

This beer pours a clear medium copper amber hue, with one finger of loosely foamy off-white head, which leaves a strongly pervasive case of spectral lace around the glass as it duly recedes.

It smells of sweet, bready, cereal malt, some wavering caramel, a slight flintiness, and floral, grassy hops. The taste is caramel/toffee malt, an attendant breadiness, some loitering hard water notes, a bit of semi-sweet drupe fruitiness, and softly leafy, grassy hops.

The carbonation is rather sedate, and definitely non-intrusive, the body a decent medium weight, but a little too informed by a swirling sugary nature, and equally smooth. It finishes off-dry, the cerealized (tm) malt providing the crux of the sweetness, as the subtle fruit drops away, and the earthy noble hops complete their Teutonic duty.

A rather enjoyable Vienna Lager, the malt well tempered via machinations from within and from without, and assisted to no small degree by a pleasant fruity character, as well as a restrained bitter hoppiness. So very Old World, and rather good when one flips one's mind over to this fact.

A: Copper-bronze with an off-white head, very thin ring of retention & lace.

S: Floral, slightly grassy, light caramel sweetness, hint of earthy mineral.

T: Light caramel sweetness, floral and grassy, modest earthy bitterness.

M: Light residual sweetness, modest carbonation.

O: On the light side, but it's a decent Vienna lager.

I enjoyed this beer in a giant red wine glass.

A- Nice copper coloured beer. Translucent with lots of bubbles. Head just around the edges after it dissipates off white small regular sized bubbles.

S - Malt. It smells like I just opened a can of malt extract. A citrus and purple grape-y ester smell from that malt. It also smells like just barely toasted whole wheat bread.

T - It's a little sweet, but nicely balanced. A nice hoppiness for a lager, once again nicely balanced. No sour notes, which is a plus. There was a bitter lingering aftertaste the same flavour as if I licked an acetaminophen.

M- I like this mouthfeel a lot. At first it feels as if it was going to dry out your mouth, but then there is a wave of cool refreshing tingling. Your mouth is left a bit fuzzy tongued after.

O - I've discovered I am not a fan of Vienna Lagers, but this is one of the nicer ones.