Likewise, Weihenstephaner Original Premium is the helles exported by the world’s oldest brewery, Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, founded in 1040. Shelby Pope Enlarge this image After starting a brewery in Seoul, Booth Brewery co-founders Heeyoon Kim (left) and Sunghoo Yang moved their operations to California to make Korean beer and ship. FLIGHT is only 95 calories, 2.6g carbs, 4.2 ABV (alcohol by volume). FLIGHT by Yuengling is easy drinking, clean, crisp, and refreshing. Munich’s Spaten brewery is credited with originating the style, but the helles they export here is called Spaten Premium Lager. LAGER UP PHILS FANS FIND LAGER Oldest Brewery in America OUR HISTORY A Beer for Every Taste OUR BEER FLIGHT Raise the Bar with the Next Generation of Light Beer. Several German breweries export their helles to the U.S., but often under a more generic name. Crisp and clean is a common way to describe them. The hops are usually from noble varieties that are floral or herbal with a soft, rounded malt character. Instead they deftly complement each other. You can taste the sweetness of the malt and sense the bitterness of the hops, but neither upstages the other. It’s thought to have been invented around 1894 in Munich as a response to the Bohemian (or Czech) pilsners that had become popular throughout Europe.īut while pilsners are known for being slightly hoppy, the hallmark of a helles is its balance. When applied to beer, a helles (or Munich Helles) is a pale golden, malt-forward lager. It simply means bright, light, pale or even blond. You just have to know what to look for - and why you should. In the capital of Bavaria and the home of Oktoberfest, helles is the most popular beer.īecause of its slightly profane name, at least to our American sensibilities, helles is not nearly as well known here, although it is imported and brewed everywhere. Pilsner may be the most popular brew throughout Germany and the rest of the world, but not in Munich. I was in Munich, Germany recently, pondering perfect summer beers.
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A lighter-bodied beer with full flavor is what you really want when it’s hot, something that really satisfies your thirst, not just a watery resemblance of beer. You may be tempted to reach for a low-calorie light beer when the temperature rises, but resist that impulse. Now that summer is officially upon us, I started thinking about that perfect hot weather beer.
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