Tannen Hell

Tannen Hell
Hohenthanner Schlossbrauerei

0,5l
5,0%
12% Stammwürze

Aaaaaaalrighty. You have reached part 2 of the mighty 7 part 500 years Reihnheitsgebot series and today we tackle a bottom-fermented, barley malted baby from the Hohenthanner Schlossbrauerei (German Only again (BOOO!)). The brewery has been founded in 1864 and is still family run and owned - by now in the third Generation. The Hell I'll try today is hopped with Hallertauer Tradition and Tettnanger Hops both grown in glorious Bavaria (snort).
Let me know what you think about more or less links within my entries. I personally am not a huge Hops specialist so as I look em up I thought I could as well just link and share em with you but I'm happy for input!

The three part label depicts the actual brewery building (so I assume), as well as the crest of the family or the brewery.. who knows. The back label holds some information about the brew as in what hops, what malt and so on. I have seen this occurring more and more on beer nowadays, simply because people get more informed and more interested in brews, which is a grand development. Though hey, I wrote beer blog before it was hip and in anyways....

The beer had won the DLG European Beer Star in Gold in 2013! (I sadly must admit that I had never ever heard this award being mentioned anywhere but hey the site says it's one of the most important beer competitions in the world and as we all know, the internet doesn't lie...)

I went for ye goode ole classical pint glass for this one, mainly as I have no idea whether it should be poured all at once (like yeastie beasties) or artsy degusted sip by sip from a tasting glass...

As I talked about the label already (it has the omnipresent Bavarian blue white diamonds on the back), it's time to tackle the aroma and the color.

It is clearly filtered as it is clear (ba dum tsih) and nice and golden in color. It's actually really nice golden with mediocre to little foam that dissipates fast, leaving behind one thin fine layer to top off the gilded liquid.

The aroma is very deep and sweet, weirdly once again reminding me of fresh meat (Ewwww).
Fine bitter tones mix with the slight acidic tone of carbonated water and the sweet smell of fruits that are just beginning to get more than ripe.

It starts rather sour on the tip of the tongue, rolls back with finer bitter tones, till a nice wave of bitterness fills the whole palate. It's indeed a nice combo of different tastes although in the end it doesn't convince me. It leaves me with a rather flat feeling and I can see that this might make an excellent fresh out of the cask beer, alas it is not making a huge OMG OMG OMG explosion in my mouth. It kinda reminds me of my genuine around the corner bar Finnish Lager... so it's nice, it has alcohol, it doesn't taste like Karjala (Shudder) but that is about it.

A solid, well made beer that fails to produce any AHA moment.

Prost!

DMW

P.S.: I totally forgot Ratebeer...