Hallerndorfer Landbier Hell
Brauerei Gasthof Rittmayer

Hallerndorfer Landbier HellHallerndorfer Landbier Hell
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From:
Brauerei Gasthof Rittmayer
 
Germany
Style:
Helles
Ranked #179
ABV:
4.9%
Score:
85
Ranked #20,838
Avg:
3.73 | pDev: 10.19%
Reviews:
12
Ratings:
23
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 05, 2023
Added:
Oct 09, 2006
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  2
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Reviewed by stcules from Italy

3.8/5  rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Golden blonde, clean, ok white foam.
Malty and cereal smell, with the right rawness.
Same for the taste, malty, with even some fresh spicy notes.
Fresh, pleasant, fresh hop.
Very drinkable.
May 05, 2023
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Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden

4.03/5  rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a fairly clear light amber with fine head.

Smell is sweet and malty with notes of dried fruit, citrus and wheat dough.

Taste is malty and sweet with notes of raisinsm dried fruit, citrus peel and some bread. Solid bitterness, quite crisp and clean.

Mouthfeel is medium, well carbonated.

Overall, a nice landbier, well balanced.
Dec 21, 2021
 
Rated: 3.84 by Giangio from Italy

Jul 18, 2017
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.84/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500ml bottle - I believe that I've only once ever had a 'landbier' before, and yep, it was from a small German brewery.

This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with two zaftig fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some splendid spooky tree branch lace around the glass as it genially subsides.

It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, subtle pome fruity notes, a small hard water flintiness, some ephemeral earthy yeastiness, and weak leafy, weedy, and dead floral noble green hop bitters. The taste is some bready and very cereal-forward pale malt graininess, faint overripe apple and pear skin, an increasing white and black pepper spiciness, generic tea tannins, and more earthy, leafy, and musty verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite effusive in its engaging frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really caring to interfere here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the cereal component of the malt really possessing some lingering chutzpah!

Overall, this is an enjoyable enough Teutonic lager offering, one which differs from the style assigned it here by a simple plainness of being - and I don't mean that as an insult. Easy to drink, and actually quite refreshing in its springtime-worthy sessionability.
Apr 06, 2017
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.84/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From the bottle, it pours a golden color with a small head, quickly reducing to virtually nothing. Pleasant nose with some breadiness. The taste is malt and a bit of hops. Nice!
Feb 03, 2017
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Reviewed by drmeto from Germany

3.6/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
L:
-pours a slightly hazy straw golden with a big,foamy,white head
-high carbonation visible
S:
-earthy,candied lemon,grainy,tea,pomelo,marzipan,peach
T:
-candied lemon,spicy,tea,apple with a sweet finish
-low bitterniss for the style
F:
-medium carbonation
-light body
O:
Fairly fruity for a german Lager.Too light-bodied
Oct 30, 2016
 
Rated: 2.54 by BlackVeg from Germany

Oct 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by safaricook from Netherlands

Jun 10, 2016
 
Rated: 3.56 by leitmotif from Romania

Mar 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.49 by dcmchew from Romania

Feb 21, 2016
 
Rated: 3.74 by mytu420 from Romania

Jan 30, 2016
 
Rated: 3.74 by Silke_Neryn from Sweden

Oct 14, 2015
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Reviewed by jonb5 from England

3.33/5  rDev -10.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Half litre bottle, poured into over sized Tripel Karmeliet tulip.

A: Golden, clear, large rocky head, decent retention, some lacing.

S: Not overly pronounced but combined slight Saaz hop with a
small hint of grass. At times it was reminiscent of a Fernsehpils.

T: The hop bitterness was balanced out by some orangey malty sweetness, bready
finish.

M: Minimal to moderate amount of carbonation, slightly heavy body.

O: An easy drinker, fairly subtle, wouldn’t get rave reviews
from a hard core hop head but perfectly acceptable.
Sep 22, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by Sturmthis from Ohio

Aug 07, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by herrburgess from South Carolina

May 28, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by mizx from England

Jan 26, 2013
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Reviewed by CwrwAmByth from England

4.2/5  rDev +12.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 500ml bottle into a straight pint glass.

Pours a clear golden colour with a pretty decent head.

Smells malty and wholesome, light biscuity malts though. Nice and fresh too.

Tastes malty again, with an interesting twang provided by yeast and bitter sweet fruit. Very refreshing and wholesome.

Overall a great tasting beer, very good depth of flavour, one of the better helles out there.
Dec 06, 2012
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Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania

3/5  rDev -19.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
500 ml bottle, poured into Weizen glass.

Head is large and foamy but dissipates quickly and leaves only some scattered lace.
Aroma is dominated by malt. Taste is also malty at first, a bit fruity in the middle and the hops hits you last. Leaves a pleasant, slightly bitter aftertaste.
Body feels light to medium. Carbonation is medium.

Average beer. Not bad but neither impressive.
Nov 26, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by shwami from Oklahoma

Feb 12, 2012
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Reviewed by TKempe from Netherlands

4.27/5  rDev +14.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
The appearance is clear and golden with a white head and very little carbonation.

The nose is incredibly enticing, full of sweet and slightly dry, bread-like malty tones, a hint of honey and roses, some fruity notes (lemon, apple, white grape) and an obvious trace of refreshing hops.

The taste is strong both in regard to malt and hops. The initial taste is sweet and juicy malt with a chewy quality and light salty touches. After passing through a dry and grainy phase the beer starts manifesting its hoppy contents: very herbal or spicy with an unmistakable bittering effect. The bitterness remains in the finish and teams up with a cleanliness that brings to mind high quality water.

Mouthfeel is very soft and smooth and somewhat slow due to the heavy body. Accurate carbonation, but maybe just a bit too thick all in all.

A very good lager like all beers from this brewery, and a real treat.
Jul 21, 2009
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