What Fresh Helles This? is a beer from 1718 Brewing (printed on the official winners list with an Ocracoke suffix); no brewery source describing it could be found.
No brewery description was found because the brewery's website could not be located.
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Ingredients
Nothing about the ingredients, or the wood or barrel treatment, was found. The name suggests a helles lager base, but no source confirms it, so no style or ingredient is assumed.
Hop Profile
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Brewing Details
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines page read for this run lists Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer and refers to "several Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beers" for elevated alcohol entries of 8 percent ABV and above, but no standalone entry for a non-sour Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer of normal strength was found on it. With no published specs, fit cannot be assessed.
Awards History
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Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer
Silver
Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.
Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, web search 2026-10-14: 1718 Brewing What Fresh Helles This barrel (other breweries' Fresh Hell lagers only).
Not Found: IBU. Checked untappd.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, web search 2026-10-14: 1718 Brewing What Fresh Helles This barrel (other breweries' Fresh Hell lagers only), Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.
Research Notes
No brewery website was found: 1718brewing.com did not resolve, 1718brewingocracoke.com shows only a hosting provider placeholder, and the "Website" link on the Ocracoke-NC.com listing redirects to the brewery's Facebook page, which was not read.
The Ocracoke-NC.com listing (https://www.ocracoke-nc.com/1718-brewing.html) describes the brewery as Ocracoke Island's only local brewery with an ever-rotating selection brewed on the premises, at 1129 Irvin Garrish Hwy.
A web search for the beer name found no listing; ABV, IBU, ingredients and a description were not found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Exact-name, Untappd, BeerMenus, ABV and medal searches found no additional verified specifications. The brewery's readable Untappd list did not include this beer. Identically named beers from Buena Vista Taproom and Brewery Outré were excluded because they are different breweries.
Field pass 2026-10-13: A retailer venue linked the exact 1718 beer listing, which publishes 4.8% ABV and N/A IBU. No hops or brewery beer page were found; the listing does not describe the barrel treatment.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: an exact-name search found nothing about this beer.