Viljapuna
Pihtla Õlleköök in Pihtla, Saare County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.39
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Massive foam, almost no beer visible at first, but foam comes down, slowly, and some red-amber liquid becomes visible. Aroma is full of malt and breadiness, bit of something plasticky and soapy. Slightly sweetish, more like sweetness of some rowan berries that have been frostbitten and lost their bitter. Taste is not that sweet, strong malty body, a lot of hops but they are not blending in with other flavours at all, making this brew feel messy and without clear direction. Aftertaste is dry and succumbs into long bitter linger. Drinkable but simple, also messy and definitely not worth it’s price tag (4 EUR).
Tried
on 21 Feb 2016
at 15:47
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle. From Hopner. Dark brown, thin brown head. Bready, earthy, rye in aroma. Flavor has rye, molasses, bread. Quite crisp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2015
at 09:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 330ml. @ [ SOPP 2015 ] @ Railway Square / Rautatientori, Helsinki, Finland . [ As Pihtla Viljapuna ].Clear medium to dark red amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dark malt, toasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, nutty, sweet malt, caramel, fruity malt, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150722]
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2015
at 03:58
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@SOPP2015. Reddish brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma is yeast, some toffee, mild herbal and grassy notes along with some farmyardy notes. Flavour is yeasty, some caramel malts, grains, toffee and earthy. Very malt dominated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2015
at 04:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 0.33l at SOPP 2015, Helsinki. Colour is reddish brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Grain, some floral, caramel and malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2015
at 11:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle @SOPP2015
Brown color, good beige head. Light farmhouse, malts, grain. Light-bodied. Some caramel, grain, toasted notes. Somewhat clean and malty. Decent.
Brown color, good beige head. Light farmhouse, malts, grain. Light-bodied. Some caramel, grain, toasted notes. Somewhat clean and malty. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2015
at 07:30
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle, 0.33 l, at SOPP Helsinki, 20150722) The beer poured deep reddish brown and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness, creamy toffee and caramel. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, malts, caramel and bitterness. Aftertaste had caramel, hops and bitterness. A good sweet and hoppy brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2015
at 10:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Õllesummer. Pours hazy red with beige head. The head stays for a second. Aroma is sweet, malt, citrus, tangerines. Flavor follows the nose. Overall: good one, it was my clear favorite of the new Pihtla brews (they were out of ginger beer, so didn’t have a chance to try that one). I had it again (batch 3), wasn’t as good as the one I tried at Õllesummer (maybe it was same batch, but only older? Fruity hops disappear quickly after all...). Rerate would be more like: 6:4:6:3:13=3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2015
at 05:14