Fra fad på Tap1 mai-14: polakkene imponerer på årets DØE Festival! Oto Mata er laget av lyse maltsorter, risflak og Pacific, Simcoe, Mosaic og Galaxy humler. Veldig lys, klar og med kort filmskum. Lett munnfølelse, og med en sammensatt og meget behagelig bitterhet. Lett&elegant!

Pours golden color. Nose of intense hop. Taste is very hop forward with dry finish.

Bottled@Gastropub Tuulensuu, Tampere. Pale yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is grains, hops, fruits and quite sweet floral notes. Flavour is fruits, some floral notes, a bit yeast and some strange kind of sweetness. Balanced, and refreshing "rice ipa".

500 ml bottke from Õllepood Nr. 1 in Tartu. Pours pale and clear with a small white and foamy head. Aroma is note very IPA-like, rather feels like a lager. It is supposed to be a rice IPA and true - you can feel some "koshihikari" rice aromas flying around, creating a somewhat thick blanket of malt/rice bread aromas. From underneath that blanket, you can feel some hop aromas coming as well. Taste feels already more like an IPA, there is plenty of bitterness. Some barnyard and herbal hop flavours also there. Additionally a bit of fruitiness shining through the bitter base and aftertaste is long and full of grapefruit seed bitterness. I’d love to experience hop characters more but this time it is quite unbalanced - the beer is quite bitter but there is no malt base to balance it, also aromas are overwhelmed with that rice blanket. Bitterness is honest but comes out a bit numb. Overall, this one still feels like a hopped up rice lager rather than an IPA.

Bottle @Gastropub Tuulensuu. Clear golden color, good white head. Grassy, gooseberry aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Flavor has citrus, gooseberry hoppyness. Rice softens the palate. Quite nice for being a Polish rice ipa.

Appearance: Hazy golden color with a fine frothy white head that leaves a nice lacing.
Aroma: Weird….it smells like a pilsner. Maybe served a little bit to cold. Malty, mild citric hoppy and mild fruity.
Palate: Medium + body. Tad sweet and a fresh rich bitterness. Average carbonation.
Taste: Citric, mild grapefruit hoppy, mild fruity and solid/grainy malty back.
Overall impression: Fresh and easy drinkable. But I would not have guessed that it was an IPA. One of the best pilsner I have ever had!
Personal stats: Bottle from a trade with Visionthing.

Liège - Esbjerg - Europa League elite tasting September 2013. Slightly hazy golden with a small white head. Clean, weak malty aroma with a fruity touch. Malty, fruity and citrus flavour that doesn’t quite match the intense hop bitterness

Bottle @ Standard Liege- Esbjerg, Europa League Warm Up. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Grassy and fruity hoppy nose and flavor. A bit dusty and malty. Dry bitter finish.

50cl bottle from The Beer Store, Warszawa. Pours slightly hazy pale yellow with a small head. Mild fruity aroma with rice, citrus and hints of herbs. Moderate sweet with a fairly dry and quit decent bitterness. Medium body with fairly average carbonation. Quite strange, but nice and interesting. Bitter aftertaste with notes of grapefruit.

50 cl bottle. Pours clear and yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild peachy to citrusy hoppy. Smooth fruity, light toasted malty and light sweet impression. Crisp hoppy, citrusy to peachy and light bitter finish.