What does Helles taste like?

🫧 Open on Bubbles Reading The Beer Nut’s tasting notes for Weihenstephaner Helles made us think about how we talk about Helles. In a typically perceptive, entertaining post he writes: My usual descriptor for good Helles is spongecake; this goes beyond that, into donut flesh or even candyfloss with its sweetness. What he’s getting at here is the essential delicacy of this style. Get it wrong in one direction and it can be sweet and bland – just bog standard lager with a fancy name. But go the other way and i