Hillsdale Helles
Black Gold Brewery
- From:
- Black Gold Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 04, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2023
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.53/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
3.53/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the brewery; no canning date. Served slightly chilled.
Pours a clear pale golden-yellow hue, with over an inch of lumpy, soapy white head gathered atop. A messy coat of fractal patterned lacing is left behind, as well as a generously frothy collar and cap - a visually stunning lager. I'm getting hints of doughy, grainy pale malts on the nose, with suggestions of apples and grassy, floral hops.
Malt-forward flavours of biscuit, dough and bready, grainy pale malts come through immediately, followed by suggestions of honeyed sweetness. Faint whispers of floral, earthy hops on the back end, with biscuity sweetness dissipating into the aftertaste, which trends off-dry. Medium-light in body, with relatively low carbonation that weakly agitates the surface of the palate, resulting in a slick, smooth, kinda flat mouthfeel. It's still a breeze to gulp back.
Final Grade: 3.53, a serviceable B grade. Hillsdale Helles isn't a bad beer, but it's not at all on par with the German equivalents. That being said, I don't really expect perfection from North American examples of this style - I mean, they're hard to nail, and the German brewing industry has had more time to perfect them. This one is just good enough to be worth drinking again, though I wouldn't go out of my way. A decent Euro lager, and if you're satisfied with that then more power to you.
Jul 04, 2023Pours a clear pale golden-yellow hue, with over an inch of lumpy, soapy white head gathered atop. A messy coat of fractal patterned lacing is left behind, as well as a generously frothy collar and cap - a visually stunning lager. I'm getting hints of doughy, grainy pale malts on the nose, with suggestions of apples and grassy, floral hops.
Malt-forward flavours of biscuit, dough and bready, grainy pale malts come through immediately, followed by suggestions of honeyed sweetness. Faint whispers of floral, earthy hops on the back end, with biscuity sweetness dissipating into the aftertaste, which trends off-dry. Medium-light in body, with relatively low carbonation that weakly agitates the surface of the palate, resulting in a slick, smooth, kinda flat mouthfeel. It's still a breeze to gulp back.
Final Grade: 3.53, a serviceable B grade. Hillsdale Helles isn't a bad beer, but it's not at all on par with the German equivalents. That being said, I don't really expect perfection from North American examples of this style - I mean, they're hard to nail, and the German brewing industry has had more time to perfect them. This one is just good enough to be worth drinking again, though I wouldn't go out of my way. A decent Euro lager, and if you're satisfied with that then more power to you.
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