Helles Lager
Kettlehead Brewing Company
- From:
- Kettlehead Brewing Company
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 1.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 05, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 02, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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A clean and crisp easy drinking lager. Light and refreshing.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
4.06/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Sampling a cold 16 oz can poured into my.5 L dimple mug. Picked up at the brewery during a recent trip to New Hampshire. Date stamp is 07/19/2023...I think, its pretty difficult to read.
The beer pours a bright clear golden color with many fine streams of carbonation rising to the surface. A thin bleached white head of 1 cm foams up and is a wispy surface covering soon after the pour.
Aroma is pretty mild, but I get some sweet bread notes and a bit of cracker (unsalted saltine) with a faint hint of spicy hop note in the background. NO ABV hints.
First sip reveals a light body with fine tingly carbonation. Very smooth easy drinking texture. My mug is emptying quickly!
Flavor is on the mild side, but I get some toasted bread, cracker notes and again a bit of spicy hop on the finish. I also get a bit of vinous white grape, which I seem to get in a lot of golden lagers on the flavor profile.
this is a very drinkable lager beer, that is pretty straight forward and approachable. I would drink again and would enjoy these at a fantasy sports draft or other event where I can appreciate a well made beer, but not need something overly complex.
Sep 05, 2023The beer pours a bright clear golden color with many fine streams of carbonation rising to the surface. A thin bleached white head of 1 cm foams up and is a wispy surface covering soon after the pour.
Aroma is pretty mild, but I get some sweet bread notes and a bit of cracker (unsalted saltine) with a faint hint of spicy hop note in the background. NO ABV hints.
First sip reveals a light body with fine tingly carbonation. Very smooth easy drinking texture. My mug is emptying quickly!
Flavor is on the mild side, but I get some toasted bread, cracker notes and again a bit of spicy hop on the finish. I also get a bit of vinous white grape, which I seem to get in a lot of golden lagers on the flavor profile.
this is a very drinkable lager beer, that is pretty straight forward and approachable. I would drink again and would enjoy these at a fantasy sports draft or other event where I can appreciate a well made beer, but not need something overly complex.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
3.94/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
From a 16oz can, undated - another brewer who stopped dating their cans when they started distributing them? Served in a willi becher.
Pours a slightly cold-hazed pale honey-gold with a scant finger of suds. The head didn’t really stick around long enough to get much of a look at, just left a small, fizzy collar.
Nose is sweet and malty, almost savory. Aroma of sugar-frosted breakfast cereal, berries, apple muffins. Smells really good.
Taste is a little less sweet and a lot more spicy-bitter than the nose. Tasting bread roll and black pepper, berries, fruit spread.
Feel is smooth, round and relatively full bodied but maybe a tad under-carbonated to my tastes.
Overall, a nice helles from a place you wouldn’t necessarily think to look for one. I was at the brewery yesterday and had a flight (and a half) with all their lagers (well, one was a kölsch) and this was my favorite. Not quite as impressive out of the can, but still pretty good. Pisses me off about the can dates, though.
Aug 02, 2023Pours a slightly cold-hazed pale honey-gold with a scant finger of suds. The head didn’t really stick around long enough to get much of a look at, just left a small, fizzy collar.
Nose is sweet and malty, almost savory. Aroma of sugar-frosted breakfast cereal, berries, apple muffins. Smells really good.
Taste is a little less sweet and a lot more spicy-bitter than the nose. Tasting bread roll and black pepper, berries, fruit spread.
Feel is smooth, round and relatively full bodied but maybe a tad under-carbonated to my tastes.
Overall, a nice helles from a place you wouldn’t necessarily think to look for one. I was at the brewery yesterday and had a flight (and a half) with all their lagers (well, one was a kölsch) and this was my favorite. Not quite as impressive out of the can, but still pretty good. Pisses me off about the can dates, though.
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