Beers similar to Helles Schlenkerla Lager

Helles Lager·Germany·4.3% ABV·One of 515 Helles Lagers in hopIQ·

hopIQ found 10 beers that share Helles Schlenkerla Lager's spicy-hoppy and malty character. A Helles Lager with only a faint smoke taste, and no smoked malt involved. The smoke tone comes from the same old copper kettles and the same bottom-fermenting yeast that serve the historic Rauchbier. Aroma hops from Spalt near Nuremberg season it, and the beer matures in centuries-old tunnels beneath the malthouse and brewery. Original gravity 11.5 °P.

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10 beers like Helles Schlenkerla Lager

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Dancing Man Brewery

United Kingdom · Helles Lager · 5.0%

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81%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Same smokiness and bread notes as Schlenkerla, adds dryness, noticeably less bitter.

What carries overcrispspicy-hopsmokymaltyclean

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

Compared to Schlenkerladryhoppyherbalsmooth-drinkingsmooth

Structure: Very close — a touch less bitterness, a touch more sweetness.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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Little Red Ranch

Hop Butcher For The World

United States · Helles Lager · 5.0%

CLOSE ALTERNATIVE

81%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Shares bread notes and cleanness with Schlenkerla; adds sweetness, noticeably less bitter, but drops smokiness.

What carries overcleancrispspicy-hopsmooth-drinkingrefreshing

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

Compared to Schlenkerlasweetdryfloralsmoky

Structure: Very close — a touch less bitterness, a touch more sweetness.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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Mühlviertler Bio Bier

Brauerei Hofstetten

Austria · Helles Lager · 5.1%

CLOSE ALTERNATIVE

81%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Alongside Schlenkerla on bread notes and cleanness: adds hop character, noticeably less bitter, drops smokiness.

What carries overspicy-hopmaltycleansmooth-drinkingcrisp

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

Compared to Schlenkerlahoppysmoky

Structure: Very close — a touch less bitterness, a touch more sweetness.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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4

Haller Löwenbräu

Germany · Helles Lager · 4.9%

78%

MATCH

A touch more haziness, noticeably less bitter, no smokiness — bread notes and drinkability as with Schlenkerla.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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5

Karmeliten Brauerei

Germany · Helles Lager · 4.9%

78%

MATCH

Keeps bread notes and cleanness like Schlenkerla, adds grass notes, noticeably less bitter, drops smokiness.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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Brauerei Keesmann

Germany · Helles Lager · 4.8%

78%

MATCH

Mirrors Schlenkerla's bread notes and cleanness — plus floral notes, noticeably less bitter, minus smokiness.

Structure: less bitter

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Teisendorfer Hell

Privatbrauerei Wieninger

Germany · Helles Lager · 5.0%

77%

MATCH

Like Schlenkerla on bread notes and drinkability — adds sweetness, noticeably less bitter, but without the smokiness.

Structure: less bitter, a notch stronger

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Fohrenburger Stiftle

Brauerei Fohrenburg

Austria · Helles Lager · 4.8%

77%

MATCH

As with Schlenkerla, same bread notes and cleanness; adds dryness, noticeably less bitter, no smokiness.

Structure: less bitter

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Die Franken Halbe Pilsner

Wolfshöher

Germany · Pale Lager · 4.8%

76%

MATCH

Less bitter — same bread notes and drinkability as Schlenkerla, adds dryness, noticeably less bitter, but without the smokiness.

Structure: less bitter

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Four Winds Brewing Co.

Canada · Helles Lager · 4.5%

76%

MATCH

Less bitter — same smokiness and bread notes as Schlenkerla, adds noble hop character, noticeably less bitter, but without the spicy-hop notes.

Structure: less bitter

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