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Edelsud Festbier
Innstadt-Bräu
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- From:
- Innstadt-Bräu
- Germany
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 10.66%
- Reviews:
- 16
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 07, 2021
- Added:
- Jun 11, 2008
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.49/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle at Das Alpenhaus. Cloudy amber pour, foamy head dissipates. Aroma is caramel malts and some yeasty funk. Malty taste, sweet, caramel, with a faint sourness, which I recognize from roggenbiers.
Jul 07, 2021Reviewed by BeerWithMike from Nebraska
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Sampling right now on 8/3/14. Comes in a nice 500ml (16.9 ounce) bottle. Bottle chilled down to 36 degrees F in my beer cooler and poured in to a 'Urhel' tulip glass.
Pours a slight hazy golden in color with a good 1-finger white foamy head that settles down to a nice layering along the sides of the glass. A good amount of lacing is seen with each sip. The aroma is of sweet cereal grains with a hint of honey. Lots going on with the taste with the sweet malts with some honey and even orange mixed in. Medium bodied with a good amount of carbonation but not overly done. No harsh or bitter aftertaste either as this brew went down pretty easy. Overall a good brew.
Aug 04, 2014Pours a slight hazy golden in color with a good 1-finger white foamy head that settles down to a nice layering along the sides of the glass. A good amount of lacing is seen with each sip. The aroma is of sweet cereal grains with a hint of honey. Lots going on with the taste with the sweet malts with some honey and even orange mixed in. Medium bodied with a good amount of carbonation but not overly done. No harsh or bitter aftertaste either as this brew went down pretty easy. Overall a good brew.
Reviewed by largadeer from California
3.63/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.63/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Draft at Gourmet Haus Staudt.
Milky straw yellow topped by an inch of dense, sticky froth.
Malty, grainy, clean aroma. Lager yeast is evident, bringing a mild sulfuric note.
There's more sweetness than the aroma suggests, though it's by no means a rich beer. Bready pale malt backed by mild fruitiness, honey, spicy noble hops. On the sweet side for a helles, a bit creamy in texture with very little bite in the finish. Medium body, perhaps a bit heavier than I like for the style. Very good on the whole, but a step down from their stadl-bier.
Apr 27, 2011Milky straw yellow topped by an inch of dense, sticky froth.
Malty, grainy, clean aroma. Lager yeast is evident, bringing a mild sulfuric note.
There's more sweetness than the aroma suggests, though it's by no means a rich beer. Bready pale malt backed by mild fruitiness, honey, spicy noble hops. On the sweet side for a helles, a bit creamy in texture with very little bite in the finish. Medium body, perhaps a bit heavier than I like for the style. Very good on the whole, but a step down from their stadl-bier.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.35/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Transcribed from undated notes.
The pour produced a finger of bone-white head with great retention, eventually resulting in some nice lacing. Color was a hazy lemon-yellow. Nose was slightly lager-sweet, but frankly rather muted from what one might expect from the style. Mouthfeel was medium with a definite honey-lager sweetness on the tongue. Finish was mellow, lager-like, tasty. Nothing terribly notable, but not bad, either.
Aug 10, 2010The pour produced a finger of bone-white head with great retention, eventually resulting in some nice lacing. Color was a hazy lemon-yellow. Nose was slightly lager-sweet, but frankly rather muted from what one might expect from the style. Mouthfeel was medium with a definite honey-lager sweetness on the tongue. Finish was mellow, lager-like, tasty. Nothing terribly notable, but not bad, either.
Reviewed by tempest from New York
3.25/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.25/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Picked up a swing-top bottle from Abe's for $4. I wish I knew the age of this beer, but there's no date on it. The aroma and flavor have a nearly cidery caramel bread taste with only a hint of bitterness. This beer is a bit sweet, but is otherwise smooth and drinkable. It just doesn't taste like a good example of the style.
May 29, 2010Reviewed by Japerrault from Idaho
3.08/5 rDev -15.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev -15.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A: Hazy golden ale. Thin white head.
S: Raisin-like cereal grain. Also, honey aroma.
T: Bran and dried fruit, somewhat oxydized flavors throughout. No good hop flavor to speak of.
M: Not bad, medium light body with full carbonation.
D: Odd flavors for me. Not something I care to look for again. Maybe just a bad example.
May 21, 2010S: Raisin-like cereal grain. Also, honey aroma.
T: Bran and dried fruit, somewhat oxydized flavors throughout. No good hop flavor to speak of.
M: Not bad, medium light body with full carbonation.
D: Odd flavors for me. Not something I care to look for again. Maybe just a bad example.
Reviewed by drtth from Pennsylvania
3.68/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Served in a tall Innstadt mug. A glass of cold water on the side to sip from periodically.
Appearance: The beer as poured is a rich light golden slightly hazed color with a 1" creamy white head. Sipping initially leaves rings of foam and leggy lacing on the sides of the glass. Later in the beer the head has receded to a thin cap of foam with small ring around the glass but still leaves spotty but persistent lacing. Eventually the foam and lacing are gone entirely before the beer is finished.
Smell: The aroma is pleasant enough with floral and sweet malt character. There are neither strong hops nor any alcohol detectable.
Taste: The flavor is sweet malt with an almost orange and honey taste but with no hop bitterness or alcohol detectable.
Mouthfeel: The mouth feel is medium-bodied and soft with gentle, reasonably persistent carbonation that shows in the end as more of prickly sensation in the mouth. The finish is medium long and begins sweet, then fading off to final short dryness at the end.
Drinkability: While not an outstanding lager, this is quite drinkable for what it is. Also, about half way through the beer it paired quite nicely with the smoked chicken salad that I was having for lunch. I certainly would not turn this down if offered but I'll probably not seek it out or make a point of having it again.
Sep 24, 2009Appearance: The beer as poured is a rich light golden slightly hazed color with a 1" creamy white head. Sipping initially leaves rings of foam and leggy lacing on the sides of the glass. Later in the beer the head has receded to a thin cap of foam with small ring around the glass but still leaves spotty but persistent lacing. Eventually the foam and lacing are gone entirely before the beer is finished.
Smell: The aroma is pleasant enough with floral and sweet malt character. There are neither strong hops nor any alcohol detectable.
Taste: The flavor is sweet malt with an almost orange and honey taste but with no hop bitterness or alcohol detectable.
Mouthfeel: The mouth feel is medium-bodied and soft with gentle, reasonably persistent carbonation that shows in the end as more of prickly sensation in the mouth. The finish is medium long and begins sweet, then fading off to final short dryness at the end.
Drinkability: While not an outstanding lager, this is quite drinkable for what it is. Also, about half way through the beer it paired quite nicely with the smoked chicken salad that I was having for lunch. I certainly would not turn this down if offered but I'll probably not seek it out or make a point of having it again.
Edelsud Festbier from Innstadt-Bräu
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
29 ratings
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