New Anthem Beer Project the dream is over Crystal Helles Bock, 7.3 ABV is from Wilmington, North Carolina. This beer, made with Crystal hops, Pils, Munich, and Vienna malts. It also contains honey and orange blossoms. It pouts a deep yellow/amber color with a two-finger steady white head. It has a sweet caramel aroma with honey and orange. There is a faint beaded note on the nose. The taste is very caramel and sweet, probably from honey and orange blossoms. The mouthfeel is fuller but not that full. This beer has a caramel orange finish. Then it fades into a sweet lager with a linger of some sweet caramel. This overall is a good beer. I give New Anthem Beer Project the dream is over Crystal Helles Bock an A. It’s a good beer. It’s an interesting take on a Helles Bock beer. It has just the right amount of sweetness coinciding with the caramel and the honey/orange blossoms, and that’s what’s giving the beer its good sweet flavor. I think that you should go and try New Anthem Beer Project the dream is over Crystal Helles Bock. Please be kind, be safe, and enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, one of the oldest in Charlotte, has brought back a beer that they once brewed in their earlier days. This Mecklenburger Helles Lager, 4.9% ABV, is brewing brewed again. The word Helles mean bright, light, or pale in German. Mecklenburger pour a bright pale yellow golden color with a one and a half snow white head that fizzy away rather quick in to small lacing. The aroma is crisp and clean with the faintest hop note and a slightly malted note. Mecklenburger has a refreshingly crisp taste that will take the heat out of a summer day with light malt notes and very faint light hop flavor. This beer is very easy drinking. The mouth feel is light and crisp, with a smooth finish that leads up to an aftertaste that is semi-sweet and cracker like. The flavors on this Helles Lager is not so bold, but they are good. I say this is an A. Mecklenburger is one that you can sit for a few hours and have many. Watch you favorite sport with a few mecklenburgers or call your friends have a party with a case of Mecklenburger. It’s even good after yard work. I highly recommend drinking The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Mecklenburger Helles Lager. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!
A little over two years ago I first reviewed The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Mecklenburger Helles Lager, 4.9% ABV and I thought that it was worth another review, and I will post the first review for this Throwback Thursday post. Mecklenburger Helles Lager is the first beer that OMB brewed and for a while now they have brought the beer back and continue to brew it. Mecklenburger Helles Lager pours a golden color with a bright white snowy two finger quickly fading head that leaves thin lacing behind with aromas of crisp breaded malts with touches of slight sweet notes that take you down to a crisp refreshing flavor of breaded notes with subtle sweetness with a very faint metallic notes that quickly dashes away with a slight dryness and finishes clean crisp with a hint of light sweetness and a crisp cracker-like aftertaste with a light mouthfeel. This is as good as I remember it and would be a good beer to have more that one or two. The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Mecklenburger Helles Lager is a great beer for your next party. It is an A+ beer not too bold on flavor nor does it not have enough, it just the right balance and well brewed. I highly recommend trying The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Mecklenburger Helles Lager! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!
