Rustic Helles
Wooly Pig Farm Brewery

 

 

Pours an ever so slightly hazy golden yellow from a 16 ounce stubby bottle into a nonic pint glass with one finger of white foam and decent lacing. Aroma of grass, floral hops and clean malt with flavors that follow. Mouthfeel is full and overall a fine unfiltered golden lager beer.

I fell in love with this beer 6/19/25. Stubby brown bottle. Has a yeasty frothy vibrant yellow gold appearance. The aroma is yeasty bread and I believe Pilsner malts with a light hay note. Tastes are yeasty bready malts, a hint of sunny apple, pear, dry yellow fruit bread. It has a smooth medium bodied feel with a smooth finish. It is wholesome, savory, and heartfelt and is outstanding in its style.

Pours a somewhat hazed & effervescent gold with a thumb of ivory colored head. Drops bright, pretty good head retention & better lacing

S: Very bready, grassy & floral notes as well, great nose!

T: Follows the nose, a little pear & white grape as well along with dryness. Grassyness, white grapes, pears, bready sweetness & a little crackery dryness , plus grassy notes once the beer is warmed up, a touch of soapyness ( l like it in some lagers ). Finishes with bready sweetness, some cracker notes, lemons, pears & grassyness

MF: Light/medium body, delicate carbonation, good balance

Pretty drinkable, wish it had a little more body, but this is true to the style & a great take on it

It’s absolutely heaven. Unfiltered brownish yellow. Smells like a morning on the farm. Very tasty for a light feeling beer. Light maltiness. Appropriate hoppiness. Feel is full for the type of beer. It’s the kind of beer that you just want to keep drinking. WPFB is for real.

2024-07-14
500ml bottle served in a curvy Monhegan pint glass. If there's a date, I don't see it. @beergoot sent it to me.

Pours a hazy light amber with a roughly one finger head that settles slowly, moderate to high active carbonation. Smell is lots of grain and yeast, some hay, some lemon rind.

Taste is grainy and refreshing. Moderate sweetness, moderate grass and lemon. Nothing flashy here, but very tasty, refreshing, and incredibly drinkable.

Mouthfeel is light, smooth, bordering on creamy. Overall, very nice.

 

 

 

I am trying this beer off the tapper at the brewery as part of a five sample flight. It poured a clear golden with white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had subtle grain and wheat notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with grain and subtle biscuit and yeast presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a great beer.

500ml (16.9oz) bottle from the brewery.
Pours a clear pale gold color with a foamy white head, good retention.
Floral, bready and slightly sweet with a clean finish.
Light body with moderate carbonation, an easy drinker!
I can see myself drinking this all night, like it very much!

 

Pale gold with a thick white head.

This medium-bodied lager exhibits wheat and cornbread pairing with lightly sweet white grape before finishing paper dry.

It's really soft and deliciously drinkable, yet this review is criminally lacking in description, especially considering the number of times I've had this. I'll have to rectify that soon (written mid-2022).

 

Picked up a four-pack of 500mL bottles at the brewery. Reviewed 4/17/19.
Undated bottles but the carrier is stamped “APR 09 2019”. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Appearance – 4.
Body – Light gold, very faint haze.
Head – Large (Maximum eight cm, aggressive center pour), white, initially fizzy but settling into a high-density head, average retention, diminishing to a three mm ring and partial cap.
Lacing – Good. Narrow bands of tiny bubbles.
First pour – Nearly colorless, clear.
Aroma – 4 – Floral hops and malt.
Flavor – 4 - Begins slightly sweet with a bit of malt and some floral notes. No alcohol (4.9 % ABV), no dimethylsulfide, no diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Medium, watery, lively carbonation.
Impression and interpretation – 4 – Excellent German Helles.

This is a flat out exceptional beer, perfectly constructed and a real pleasure to drink. The aroma offers up a finely woven blend of crackery malt and grassy hops, but does so with such a fresh airy quality, almost suggestive of freshly done laundry hanging on the line. But then the palate- kaboom- concentrated doughy malt balanced with earthy spice, and there's that fresh air again on the finish. Mouthfeel is moderately full, starting rich and malty but finishing dry with the faintest snap of hop bitterness. Masterful job, and the finest domestically brewed helles I've had to date.

 

Revisited February 14th, 2021

Original 2018 review ratings: 3.5 3.75 4.25 4.0 3.75

The appearance is the overall improvement this go-around. So an uptick for that quality plus another for the overall.

I believe the initial review was based upon my review while at the brewery whereas this one is taken from a bottle.

It's been my experience that beers from the tap many times lack great visual appeal, especially with the head. But this sample greatly improves upon my initial take on the beer. I stand by my original impressions with the other elements of the beer's qualities.
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Pale yellow body; initial thick head but it quickly dissipates to a thin yet sticky shadow of itself. Gentle fruity and floral aroma. Delicate flavors of light cereal grains; crackers; light yet proportional hop bitterness; very clean taste. Medium-light body; crisp and delicate on the palate; mostly dry finish.

This beer is another fine lager offering from Wooly Pig, subtle yet flavorful and quite easy to drink.

L: Nice light gold color with a small amount of white head that fades quick. Bubbles move up the side of the glass for a little while after the pour. No lacing.
S: Getting a nice bread scent off of this and like a light earthy smell.
T: Also starts with a bready flavor followed by some light floral hops.
F: Light and clean and crisp.
O: Nice easy drinking light abv beer. During a hot summer BBQ these would be great.