Thunderbolt Gold
Highland Park Brewery

Clear golden amber with sticky foam in the Troubadour tulip. Pleasant cereal and straw aroma. Spritzy and light body on the tongue. This is quite light, mildly flavored, and tastes of white bread with a hint of greenery. Overall this is less interesting than most of the other Helles brews I've had this fall. I like the slightly more robust flavor and malt of many of them. This is entirely quaffable, though, with clean and modest taste. From the 16 oz can purchased at O'Shea's. Dated 11/03/23.

This one hits like Zeus if he was on Xanax, ya feel me? He’s like this big strong dude with muscles and shit. But then he gently taps you on the shoulder and goes, “Here’s your beer, sweetie.” And you know what? I kind of like that. Thanks Zeus.

 

Can. White head. Lace. Pale golden yellow.

Light, fluffy, crisp, and smooth. Biscuity and bready. Earthy hops. Toasted crackers. This is a very well made American helles lager. Bravo.

Can from Uptown Market.

A clear light yellow with a dense white head with good retention and lacing this looks great. The nose is impressive. Clean, snappy, crisp, a hint of dough and a really clean hop character- lemony, earthy, mildly minty. The palate opens crisp, clean, bitter and herbaceous. Snappy and crisp biscuit like malt, light and airy, with a solid bitterness that follows. Clean, mildly oily, there's lemon oil and a little dust. Drying, bitter, snappy finish. Delicious.