Klug Export
Giessener Brauhaus

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Giessener Brauhaus
 
Germany
Style:
European / Dortmunder Export Lager
ABV:
5.2%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.13 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jul 20, 2006
Added:
Jul 20, 2006
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

3.13/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
This is a contract-brew for the Britain-based "Klug" brand/company, using organic indredients where possible. As required by the founder of Klug, Dr. Vinod Moudgil from Wimbledon-London, for a new beer (according to the website), somehow, "Klug is a German premium export bier brewed since 1899 for the connoisseur", "under the German Purity Law of 1516" and "brewed and bottled in Germany" (says the beer label). Of course, there's no telling if this beer has any connection with Giessener brauhaus' regular range (e.g. "Giessener Export"), or if it's an exclusively brand new beer commissioned by "Dr. Klug"... Anyway, I'm drinking it. The beer comes in a slim, 330ml green bottle, BB 01/03/07, served chilled in a pilsner glass.

A: very pale straw in colour, coming with a restrained layer of white foam on top of a constantly lively carbonated body.
S: biscuit+toast like lager malts along with a crisp and slightly sour hoppy edge of lemons+starfruits; clean and simple in composition, but not unpleasant or too boring thanks to the balanced, floating aroma.
T: tasting just like the impression from the aroma: a softly bready/biscuity maltiness with a spritzy texture underlines a mild but very crisp mid-taste of slightly floral hoppyness, slowly yielding to a bitter hoppy aftertaste before hitting a clean finish.
M&D: the mouthfeel is of decent quality of lagering, softly-carbonated and crisp, not falling too thin in the end. This is a quite balanced pale lager to quaff as a session beer, and its characteristics are akin as much to Dortmunder as to Munich Helles (frankly I don't know the difference, given such vague definitions on this site...), although I still prefer more hoppy Pilsners...
P.S. No matter which beer style this Britain-branded German lager is meant to be, at last there's one "more" British brand decent enough to come clean with the source of its contract-brewed beers!
Jul 20, 2006