Helsinge Beers

Eva and Bertil visited us this weekend. So we took a trip into town and of course ended up at a pub. We started out with Glennfiddich Warehouse where we tried some beer from Helsinge Ångbryggeri (Helsinge Steambrewery). It is a very new brewery which produced their first beer for sales in 2004. They didn't have allot of information but you can buy vort from the brewery and then ferment it at home. A very interesting idea, I wonder if more breweries do this.

At Glennfiddich they had two Helsinge beers and we tried them both:

Helsinge Veteöl (tap) 5%
This is their wheat beer. It poured a hazy golden liquid with a huge white foam that left lots of lacing.

It had a fairly weak smell of citrus, oranges in particular and yeast.

It had a taste of yeast and foam banana, but not as strong as I would have prefered. The mouthfeel was very smooth with a light body. Very easy to drink and I think it would work good with a meal, but on it's own it got a bit to watery. A heavier taste and a thicker body would definitely benefit it.
Total: 3,2/5
Helsinge Dunkel (tap) 5%
It poured a hazy dark brown liquid with a big light brown foam.

It had a fairly weak smell of malt, caramell and wood.

It had a similar taste of malt, fudge and caramell. It had a medium smooth mouthfeel with just a bit of stingyness. The body was light and a bit watery. Lacks some taste which draws down the points but still not a bad beer.
Total: 3,1/5

We finished off our beers and walked further south, Akkurat was full so we continued to Bishops Arms. There I found a bottle of Achel Blonde which I will write about later and also another Helsinge beer:
Helsinge Rököl (tap) 5%
It poured a hazy brown liquid with a medium sized light brown foam, that left lots of lacing.

It had a sweet smell of malt, smoke, wood and some sourness.

It tasted similar of malt, smoke and wood, no sourness though. The mouthfeel had some sting to it and it had a medium body. Decent beer but worst of the three.
Total: 3/5