Brewery: Zeta
Brewery Location: Alboraya, Spain
Alcohol: 5.5%

This was one of the beers that I tried during a recent beer event. A Meetup group that I recently joined was hosting an event where the co-founder of the Zeta brewery came and talked about their beer, as well as offered some samples. I will talk more about that in a dedicated post to come later.

While I hate to admit that I wasn’t so impressed by this beer, I hope the folks at Zeta can rest assured that I liked their other beers that I sampled a lot more.

In any case, the Zeta Hell is a German style helles beer. For the record, helles just means light in German, as in the opposite of dark. As such, the name of this beer (hell) isn’t referencing the raging inferno where Satan lives, but just pointing to the style of beer that it is. It differs from other helles by having some American hops thrown into the mix.

Sight: It had a pretty standard light-golden color that one would expect of a helles lager. There was very little head, and what head there was quickly dissipated, leaving a thin film of scattered bubbles behind. On a different note, I like the simple look of the sticker/bottle.

Smell: It wasn’t mild, but also not strong. Smelled like a normal lager to me with a mild, almost bitterness quality to it.

Taste: As I previously touched up on, the taste was decent, but mild. It seemed to be like a slightly stronger pils, and considering that both helles and pilsners are both lagers, I guess that makes sense. There was nothing wrong with the taste, but I just didn’t find it particularly noteworthy in a sea of other lagers that already exist.

Another picture with the flash, which didn’t turn out as well, giving it more of an orange look, but the previous picture is more accurate.