Mönchsambacher Export
Zehendner Brauerei

 

Pours a hazy amber golden color with a nice head and lacing
Aroma has very pleasant yeasty, fruity, citrus and herbal hints
Taste has very well balanced bready, fruity, citrusy and floral flavors
A light bodied well carbonated beer
A great export lager

Poured on tap at Shelter D.C. into a Becker glass.

Deep pale bronze with noticeable carbonation, and a touch of faint haze. Creamy top white and three fingers soft looking with really fine bubbles. Clingy and hanging lace, just a great looker.

Mineral rich and clean. Dense bread and herbal/pine hop angles with a sense of rocky minerals on the nose. Nutty crispness, with a light forest pine scent that compliments nicely.

Palate is strangely both dense and light and all just rich. Clean super rocky mineral like finish with nutty sweet sensing bread dough. Crisp finish with dense almost light brown sugar sweetness coupled with a wintery pine hop sensation that almost touches mint flavor.

Stupidly good lager, probably enjoy this even more than the classic Lagerbier which is more hop forward.

 

A half liter from a tall glass at the brewery in rural northern Bavaria. Pours a gorgeous hazy golden orange. Sipped this while I went over to the ramp to check out the bottle selection. Truly absurd how cheap a case of their beers are. Anyway, this is a bit lighter than their lager, in both flavor and strength, which is counterintuitive. Usually the export is the stronger beer. Has the rich body and earthy flavor typical of all their beers; must be the yeast? Could drink this and anything they make forever. Seriously. Wow.

L:
-pours a slightly hazy straw golden with a medium,foamy,white head
-medium to high carbonation visible
-particle floaties visible
S:
-slightly fruity,herbal,grassy,tangerines,slightly yeasty
T:
-zesty,spicy,grassy,herbal,tangerines
-high bitterniss for the style
-finishes dry
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
A really good Lager but i'm not sure this is a particularly good representation of the Export style as it is a little too hoppy and a little too light for a traditional Export.Honestly, this could be released as a Pilsener and be more accurate to that style.

Pours a slightly unfiltered yellow with a bigger, fine-pored head.

Smells of beluga lentils, sun ripened straw and caramel among leafy, old hops.

Has a truly refreshing, lighter, well carbonated body, which adds a late stony quality to the already thirst quenching beer.

Tastes of herbal, dry straw, enriched by a hearty, full-bodied, soft graininess, which inherits a well nuanced, present toffee creaminess. Develops a nutty sweetness, which gets playfully handled by the present, bubbly carbonation and a flowery yeast sourness. Finishes malty with a short licorice glance and sweet chestnut honey, tied together by a lasting hint of tea-like, citrusy dryness.

Versatile, crisp and clean. A little heavier than your usual Helles, with a little more depth to it, revealing a lovely sweetness, as well as a nice hop presence.

Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Pale amber, pours with a slight haze, notably lively rising CO2 and a 1Cm snow-white cap. ps@+10mins, head holds well.
S- Mild for me, just some light malt notes.
T- Pretty light in flavour too. Mild malts and then into a notably (for this beer) quite prominent hoppy-dry finish.
F- The hoppy-dry lick across the palate is the biggest aspect here.
O- Like a medium bodied lager just with a double dose of trad dry hops. Hard to guess it's ABV... 5.2% or so? It's going down pretty well though the hops are more prominent than I'd wish for. The level of hops could make this a good lager for fans of Pale Ale!
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the lables to see what I missed! --> It is indeed 5.2%. Very minimal info on the lable, so nothing else to add.
500ml bottle £3.80 [that seems $$ for my experience of this beer] Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London. The lable is unchanged from in the photo^.
#1833.

 

 

 

 

Tap at Muted Horn, Berlin. Golden and slightly hazy, not much head; clean malty aroma, some hops hidden too; ok taste but nothing to rage about, some bitterness and light malty character; midly carbonated, medium body. Ok beer but i had way better lager/keller's from this part of Germany

Poured a slightly hazy golden amber with a small head from the 0.5 l bottle. Tastes like an export - malty with a bit of hops. A decent beer from a decent local somewhat away from Bamberg! Yum!

Sampled on-tap at the Stöhrenkeller in Bamberg, Germany.

This export lager poured a slightly hazy (chill haze?) dark golden color with fluffy white foam that persisted. The smell was modest: malt with a faint hint of sulfur. The taste was cleanly malty with a light tang from modest hop bitterness. The mouthfeel was relatively clean and crisp with medium body and sharp carbonation. The finish was lightly malty with a touch of hoppiness. This was a enjoyable beer with a very nice feel and pleasant aftertaste.