Leevike
(has 2 batches)
Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.90
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A spiced sour brewed with cranberries, hibiscus, honey, toasted cinnamon, and cloves.
Taste: Like exploring a market in the dead of winter, your taste buds dart down avenue after avenue - toasted cinnamon alley first, sweet rich cranberry sauce next, all guided by balanced acidity. Floral notes from hibiscus leave a lingering touch before juicy cinnamon and cloves come back again.
Taste: Like exploring a market in the dead of winter, your taste buds dart down avenue after avenue - toasted cinnamon alley first, sweet rich cranberry sauce next, all guided by balanced acidity. Floral notes from hibiscus leave a lingering touch before juicy cinnamon and cloves come back again.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ 10th. BBF 2018 [ 10th Borefts Beer Festival 2018 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As Põhjala Leevike ].Unclear - hazy medium orange amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, spicy, sweet malt, honey, clove - cinnamon, blood sausage (blodpølse). Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt - honey, spicy, fruity malt, clove - cinnamon, blood sausage (blodpølse). Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180921] 7-3-7-3-15
Tried
on 10 Jan 2019
at 15:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 10
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy, red brown beer with small and quickly vanishing head. Aroma is full of Christmas. It has cinnamon, gingerbread and berries. Taste has also some cinnamon, but much more sourness with berries. Medium body, slightly carbonation. Weird but interesting.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2018
at 20:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
The leevike is basically Christmas in a sour beer package. Loads of cinnamon and a melange of other spices we associate with Christmas intermingle with cranberry and other berry aromas and flavours. Lovely winter sour.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2018
at 21:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to Louie. It pours deep reddish with a small beige head. The aroma is sweet, tangy, cranberry, raspberry, warming spice, clove rock. And cola cubes. The taste is crisp, tart, lactic, cranberry, raspberry, festive spice, mulled wine abd clove granny smith apple, birscher museli and balsamic vinegar with a dry, tangy finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Odd combo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2018
at 21:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled 330ml. -from Spicy Days Zagreb. Amberish/ruby red coloured, small white head, cinnamon and mild spicy nose. Spices, cinnamon and cloves, touch of hibiscus and cranberries with pleasant spicy finish. Interesting brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2018
at 22:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Pours darker red, somewhat whitish. Looking like some hazy cranberry juice. Thick spicy nose, cinnamon and cloves, fruity cranberry tartness all around. Tastes tart, super spicy but not sweet at all. Interesting take on a Christmas ale (that's what this is). Salty mouthfeel, tart and full of satisfying umami. Tasty, not something what I would drink year-round but yes, this is not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2018
at 07:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Unorthodox Bar. Very interesting spice mix, evocative of cola flavour to me. All in all this piece is all about the spice though. Do not expect to meet any traditional beer character here. That said, I liked it and enjoyed it. Good one.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Dec 2018
at 13:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Muddy red body, tiny head, gone soon. Smells like nice mulled wine, cranberries, mild cinnamon and cloves, quite creamy, slightly tart. Lean taste, not that tart really, again, a great imitation od mulled wine, berries and dust. Very well made and enjoyable!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2018
at 14:50