Munich Helles lagers and Vollbier Helles lagers?

Vollbier is just a strength designation:

“Vollbiers (translated "full beers") have an extract value of 11-15.9%. These beers usually have between 3 and 5.3% alcohol by volume. This beer category accounts for 99% market share of the German beer industry.”

https://www.germanfoodguide.com/beer-class.cfm

Those beers are not available in my area. As to the remainder of the US?

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Early BA thread on the topic https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/mahrs-usa.676325/ which does note that the brand was previously imported by the now defunct Shelton Bros.

 

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No, not necessarily. Vollbier is just a legal strength designation as mentioned earlier - Hell/Helles vaguely refers to the pale nature of the beer. Especially in Franconia you'll find quite a few pale lagers, some of them using the term Helles/Vollbier/Helles Vollbier that differing to Munich Helles will be unfiltered, at times far more maltier, or hoppier, or sweeter. Germany terminology is process-driven (therefore allowing for wide range of results) rather than describing narrow flavour characteristics most US style designations do.

 

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I'm generalizing, but I've found that German beer doesn't follow the same naming/style conventions as we currently do in the US. They aren't quite as fast and loose as the Belgians, but they mostly seem to define things by strength and color. At least minus a few styles that have a clearly defined name like pils or Koelsch. The color stuff is mostly pretty straightforward (light, dark, gold, black, etc.) but strength is where a lot of terms can cross paths or just straight-up mean the same things. Export, spezial, starkbier, bockbier, vollbier, schankbier, Maerzen, so forth and so on.

 

Most of those terms are well-defined. Starkbier, Vollbier and Schankbier a tax classifications. Maerzen is 13-14 Plato.Bockbier is 16-18 Plato. Export and Spezial are vaguer, but at one time would have been 13-13.5 Plato.