Brewer's Special India Pale Ale
Saimaa Brewing Company in Mikkeli, South Savo, Finland 🇫🇮
IPA - Session Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.03
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Thanks, Tbone. Orange golden color. Pineapple, grapefruit and soft yeasty notes in the aroma. Grassy oily hopbitter flavor with grapefruti and pineapple. Lasting hopbitter aftertaste. Slightly metallic finish. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can, 4.7%. Fruity aroma, faintly caramelly and farty. Cloudy golden colour. Big stable plasticky white head. The flavour starts off quite bitter. A pleasant bitterness even though it is quite high. There is also a little hoppy citrus to it, but it is not very aromatic to say the least. Long bitterness in the finish and aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cloudy yellow, white froth. Light citrus aroma, malt. Malty flavour, citrus like bitterness. Hmmm.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can @ White Terror or Northern Alliance against the Bolsheviks, Sønderborg. Pours hazy amber with airy white head. Clear aroma of yeast, with citric and hoppy notes. Bitter flavour of hops (not as much of the C-ones, though), with notes of grass and yeast. Hints of malt. Bitter aftertaste. Well, drinkable but not like a typical IPA, session or not.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Kirkas kullankeltainen olut vaahtoaa runsaasti. Tuoksu havuinen, eksoottisen hedelmäinen, toffeinen. Maku sitruksinen, greippinen, havuinen ja katkera. Jälkimaussa greippisyyttä, havuisuutta ja katkeruutta sopivassa suhteessa. Melko kevyt suutuntuma.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33cl can from S-Market, Helsinki. Pours slightly hazy golden with a small, white head. Grainy and somewhat fruity aroma with notes of citrus, overripe apples and hints of compost. Moderate to medium sweet with strange fruity flavours that’s not very pleasant. Finishers with a fairly nice bitterness, thou. Doesn’t feel very fresh, not very drinkable either. Maybe a bad can, not sure, but this is not very pleasant at least.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can courtesy of Mina, many thanks! Hazy golden color with big creamy white head. Aroma is citrus hops, bitter grains. Surprisingly malty and bready. A bit piney, a bit grassy as well, but also sweatsocks. Taste is bready malts, nutty, bitter caramel, more sweatsocks, not much left of the quite fine hoppiness that the aroma had. Bitter finish, low carbonation, a bit watery mouthfeel. Ok, but not special at all. A bit moldy in the aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
330ml can from local supermarket, Helsinki. Pours hazy amber with a malty, citrussy aroma. Taste is bright bitter hops, with some malt sweetness. Not exactly the beer of the trip.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
33cl can [from trade with Rosenbergh] @ home. Lightly unclear orange color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, slightly floral, slightly some fruityness but mainly bitterness and hop bitter. Decent body and carbonation.