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Suarez Family Brewery

 

16oz can served in a willibecker. Pours a translucent yellow with a fizzy, quarter inch, off-white head that quickly disperses. Nose is clean, grassy and floral. Taste follows nose with some buttery/bready notes at the finish. Mouthfeel is light in body with a carbonation just shy of lively. Overall, pleasant, clean and easy drinking.

 

 

 

 

 

Can from the source.

A crystal clear light yellow with a dense, white head with excellent retention and lacing. The nose is soft, doughy, creamy, lightly bitter and a little bit of bready, Munich malt like notes. The hops are delicate and perfumey. The palate opens clean and bitter, with a mild honey, Graham cracker and light hops. The hop character gains on the mid-palate, with a soft, lightly oily, lightly perfumey bitterness. Drying, clean, lightly doughy and zesty on the finish. Excellent.

 

 

 

16 oz can.

Pours a lightly cloudy bright golden color with 2 fingers of frothy white head. Good head retention. Leaves a beautiful ring of lacing around the glass.

Strong aromas of herbal, grassy hops, as well as some biscuity malts, lemon zest, orange rind, and faint honey.

The flavor is full of sweet, doughy malts, lemon and orange peel, grass, piney hops, cereal grains, and honey.

The feel is medium-light bodied with pretty good carbonation. Creamy and soft, with a subtle bite on the finish.

Overall, this is a great Helles lager. It's wonderfully balanced between the malts, the honey character, and the spicy hops and rindy citrus. Lots of flavor but easy to drink.

A- Tallboy pours into a tulip glass with a brilliant clear pale golden yellow body. The head rises up to a finger high with decent retention leaving a medium width ring around the edges. Lacing is a mix of spots and small sheets.

S- A fairly balanced mix of malts and hops in the aroma and if I had to give the edge to one of them I would say the herbal and floral hops are a bit in the forefront. Light doughy, crackery and grainy notes with a touch of honey and citrus as well.

T- Follows the aroma pretty similarly with the general balance and approach but the bitterness gives a nice depth to the flavor. Bready, doughy, crackery, honey and grainy malt notes with floral, herbal, grassy hops as well as hints of mineral water, pine, pear and lemon.

MF- Light to medium bodied. The carbonation is at a moderate level and the texture is smooth and a bit foamy and fluffy.

No surprise but a great Helles from Suarez. Balanced and flavorful without being too bold or bodacious for the style.

[canned 7/7/21, cans picked up from brewery on 8/14]

Honestly, this is a pretty disappointing helles. Mediocre at best, this tastes similar to what like my lager yeast starters taste like than what an actual German helles tastes like. Simplicity is here, yes: the flavor of this beer can be achieved with just the palest malt extract, lager yeast, and a few hop pellets. Simplicity doesn't mean the result is of particular interest, noteworthiness, or even that good. This beer does not show me a brewer who has mastered their malt, hops, yeast, and process to bring out the most character in their result. For a true helles, try relatively fresh Weihenstephaner, Augustiner, Hofbrau, etc.

Pours a white foam that lasts significantly longer than average, fading to a thin ring around the perimeter of the glass. Lacing not present. Body is a golden yellow color, with light bringing out very pale yellow hues (SRM 1-2). Transparent.

Aroma of light and fairly clean, slightly hay-like sweetness with a nod towards lager yeast fermentation character, and a touch of watery apple cider and matchstick-like sulfur.

Flavor is certainly subtle, with only the mildest hints of some pale grain flavor and sweetness, drying hay, a touch of apple cider, and some lager yeast character. There is very little in the way of traditional German/Bavarian helles-style characteristics in this beer. Front: light sweetness as from pale malt, moderate lager yeast character, a touch of hay. Mid: hints of pale malt sweetness with a touch of wet hay and watery apple cider, mild lager yeast character, and light spiciness from hops and/or yeast. Back: light hop spiciness and lager yeast character atop a suggestion of pale malt sweetness with a touch of drying hay. After: very faint graininess and pale malt sweetness atop a very mild spiciness from hops.

Beer is light in body, fairly well carbonated, resulting in a mostly foamy mouthfeel. closes dry, with light stickiness on lips.

(c, c/c-, c/c-, b, c/c-)

 

 

16oz can, dated 07.07.2021, poured into a 16oz tumbler glass.

The beer pours a bright golden color, a touch cloudy, foamy white head, decent retention and lacing. The aroma is pleasant, soft pale dough, cracker malt, mineral water, lightly floral, a bit of citrus peel, mild earthy pine. The flavors are good, pale grain, lightly sweet, cracker malt, mineral water, earthy and grassy, light pine, citrus peel. The mouthfeel is good, coating and lively, lighter medium body, crisp and dry at the finish.

Verdict: A nice Helles from Suarez. Light and refreshing, well balanced, yet still substantive.

Can from the brewery in Livingston NY. Pours a mostly clear light straw yellow with a finger of creamy white head that dissipates, nice lacing, smell is sweet soda bread, fresh biscuits, hints of light caramel, cornbread, and honey, hint of sour grassy funk, taste is wheat bread, graham cracker, mild sour grassiness on the finish, feel is light and creamy, medium carbonation. A malt forward crushable lager.

 

Pours a slightly hazy straw color with the most perfect white head that provides ample lacing, the nose is doughy bread and grass, with some crackery notes as well.

The doughy bread flavors are forward, but they allow room for the grassy flavors to shine, and there’s a subtle sweetness from what is described as honey in the beer’s description, which fits.

The mouthfeel is very crisp, performance the style. Another fantastic lager from a world-class brewery.