helles
A type of lightly-hopped pale lager traditionally produced in southern Germany.
Noun
- A type of lightly-hopped pale lager traditionally produced in southern Germany.
- On the other hand, the brewing and fermentation processes that turn these straightforward materials into a helles are complex and very precise— brewing a helles is pure haute école. Some of the more robust beers can be...
- I never re-pitch yeast into a helles. Only when I make bock, which is more robust, will I pitch yeast out of another fermenter. - 2005, The New Brewer, volumes 22-23, page 32:
- ... which Bennewitz discovered were all the rage in the nascent craft beer movement (ales would have taken significantly less time to make); and the lagers they did brew, including a helles, a schwarzbier (or dark...
Origin
From German Helles.