Helles
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Sep 12, 2026
Allison FleshmanHOST
Again, she's our seven-year-old.
Allison FleshmanHOST
Her favorite beer is Pirate's Cove Helles Lager that we brew.
Allison FleshmanHOST
And she says it tastes like that.
Allison FleshmanHOST
Is that right? Tastes like it? Yeah.
Bobby FleshmanHOST
As soon as she tasted it.
Bobby FleshmanHOST
Not only is the lacing,
Allison FleshmanHOST
the bubbles are so different, thank you, Luker Fawcett, but there's a difference between that and the Helles lager.
Allison FleshmanHOST
There's a sweetness.
Brian HewittHOST
You will have un- until September 15th to enter.
Brian HewittHOST
And this is, uh, of course to, all to promote their new Fall Legends Variety Pack, which includes their, uh, Oktoberfest, the Helles, uh, Harvest Helles, Sam Adams Jack- Jack O' Pumpkin Ale, which they claim now is the most popular pumpkin beer in all of the US.
Brian HewittHOST
Not sure if that's true, but I'm not gonna debuted, uh, dispute it.
Brian HewittHOST
Uh, and a new Apple Spice Ale, which that immediately got me thinking, the whole reason I bring it up is so I can say that I think Busch Light is missing an opportunity here.
JoeHOST
And you know, most of us now, we've, you know, we've transitioned over to, you know, to all grain and, you know, brew in a bag or, you know, o- o- one, one kind of kettle systems.
JoeHOST
But you know, I, uh, like months ago, I took an all grain recipe for a Helles Bock, and I put all DME and LME in it just because I didn't wanna stand in the kitchen for eight or nine hours.
JoeHOST
Four and a half hours, I was done with the whole thing.
JoeHOST
Beer turned out amazing.
24 MINS LATER
SamGUEST
'Cause I, I don't really have any screens or filters or anything like that.
SamGUEST
Uh, I'm not against it necessarily, but I also kinda like just the raw state of a beer.
SamGUEST
You know, unless you're trying to make a, you know, a Helles or a Kolsch or something, you know, where you need to like see th- you know, read a book through it, right?
JoeHOST
[laughs]
Tom BeckmannGUEST
I think that Festbier, when I see Festbier and the way that we designed ours was based on what you would consume at the Theresienweisse in Munich nowadays, which... will certainly be paler, lower alcohol than a Mertzen.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
It will be a more akin to a Helles or export beer in terms of that sort of honey malt character and would finish a little bit drier and be pretty light on the hops.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
Depending on the style, you might have a little bit of noble aroma on the nose, but certainly a beer designed to consume liter upon liter of.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
Whereas a Mertzen, I would think the main quality of a Mertzen is in its malt character and layered malt character.
12 MINS LATER
Tom BeckmannGUEST
It's like it's more Bavarian in that it has a little bit more malt expression.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
But if I was going to get super nerdy, I'd say Eastern Bavaria, like close to Bohemia because it does have a nice bitter bite on the finish as well.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
The other style that I adore and it's a constant tweaking that we do here at Goldfinger is our original lager, which is a Helles.
Tom BeckmannGUEST
Helles style, it's hard to really find a better German beer than that, just because it's just so approachable and delicious.
Donovan FastGUEST
So we started off with an American IPA called the American Dream.
Donovan FastGUEST
We started off with hopped wheat ales, smoked porters, a Helles lager, like anything that wasn't traditionally geographical.
CeeHOST
And
Donovan FastGUEST
then we brewed a Pilsner.
Ashley PondGUEST
It is.
Ashley PondGUEST
We did also make a Helles-style lager for them at one Gold at Great American Beer Festival.
Ashley PondGUEST
But additionally, they did want to do this fit to jail.
Ashley PondGUEST
In fact, it was the first thing that they wanted to do.
Willem Van WaesbergheGUEST
It's always fermented with lager yeast but we're taking some cues from other beers.
Willem Van WaesbergheGUEST
And that's where we are playing with, to show that lager has more aspects than only Pilsner or Helles in that way.
Richard PreissHOST
Has the Heineken yeast, like the main H-strain, has that evolved over time? I imagine that's the case.
Richard PreissHOST
You know, most breweries, when I talk to them, they're not using the exact same strain they were using in the 1950s.
GregHOST
I says to Roger, I says, we were recording a podcast a while back and I smelled some kind of lager and I was like, smells like a Pilsner.
GregHOST
And he was like, it's more like a Helles.
GregHOST
I'm like, what? Word.
GregHOST
Are you, what? So.
PaulSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They had three.
PaulSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They had a German Pilsner, a Czech Pilsner, and a Helles.
PaulSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I bought two cans of each.
PaulSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, wow.
BobbyGUEST
It doesn't necessarily take away from it.
BobbyGUEST
I mean, for people to enjoy it, it just means you get a longer time frame of enjoying those beers, which it is honestly one of my favorite times of year is when we start to do our Marzen, our Swarovski, our Helles, all of our German Oktoberfest-style ones.
BobbyGUEST
I can't wait.
BobbyGUEST
I'm going to be wearing Lederhosen for a full
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