Key To Riga

Smell of malt, coffee, some rye bread and nuts. Hazy dark brown colour, high beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, rye bread, burnt sugar, faint nuts. Medium sweet, lightly bitter. Flat carbon.

440ml can from the Bierboetiek De Zythotheek, Valkenburg. Poured into an old Wolnzacher Brauhaus, Hopfenperle glass tankard at home on 16th December 2025. Mahogany red body, clean and clear, on top a solid crown of tanned foaming bubbles. Malty with a coffee like aroma and initial taste, heads nearly all gone, as I wrote about it (this is live rating). Some chocolate notes arriving as it warms a little. Decent enough, but I expected and wanted more depth and 'oomph' for the money I paid for it.

Magus, mõru, röstine, šokolaad. Ok.

Draught at Hat Brewery Taproom, Riga. Lightly cloudy, red to black colored. AROMA- toasted, chocolate and caramel. FLAVOR- lightly sweet, lightly bitter, the same as aroma, earthy. Medium bodied.
Tasty.

Smell-weak malt, cofee, roast. More cofee later. Foam- Thin to medium, malt, roast, coffee, bitter tones. Head is medium-sized, light brown in color. Appearance- nice label with key. Clear dark brown-red in color, no carbonation. From - pint Taste - malt, dark chocolate, coffee, some roast, faint sweetness, then bitter tones. Quite roasty and cofee-ish. Not bad.