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HIISI was founded in 2013, to fill a rather selfish need; We want to brew beers that we’d like to drink ourselves. Even if we do this for a living now, we still consider ourselves hobbyists of beer – it’s the flavor and meaningfulness of the beer that counts. We believe that, instead of just a beverage and means of intoxication, beer is an experience. Beer should be aromatic, nuanced and balanced, multi-sensory by nature. In addition to brewing great beer, we want to enjoy ourselves. We are here to develop interesting concepts with interesting people. We enjoy translating Finnish mythology and its lesser-known aspects into beers with character. We look for new ingredients and processes to continuously improve our craft and knowhow. We study, we try. We make our own. We will not educate others on the importance of rules, as we often do not follow them ourselves. We don’t concern ourselves with the reinheitsgebot, and we do not consider ourselves to be above any style of beer. That’s HIISI. Beer, against boredom.
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle 0.33l at Brewpub Bryggeri, Helsinki. Batch #33. Best Before 1.8.2014. Colour is clear orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Berries, piney, hints of fruits, dryness, hops and malts. Strange aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2014
at 07:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
A colaback beer with a quite big and lihgt brown head. The nose is lemony and slightly liqurice, some coffee, hint of unpure vegetables. Taste of strongly roasted coffee and lots of grapefruity bitterness. The end is long and dry. Medium bodied, nice carbonation, quite tense to drink. A harsh beer with the strong bitterness but otherwise, too one-dimensional.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2014
at 08:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle, batch #26. BB 12.7.2014. Near black in color with a brown neat head. Roasted malt, coffee, cocoa in aroma. Flavor has chocolate, pine, roasted malt and cocoa. Dry, bitter finish, roasted and long. Medium bodied. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2014
at 11:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33,3 cl bottle @ home. Batch #26: BBE 12.07.2014
Aroma is slightly messy with grapefruit, some ashy tones and roastiness. Flavour has grapefruit, ashy tones, some coffee and tobacco. Palate is a bit flat – needs more CO2. Good.
Another bottle, same batch: now there’s too much CO2. Makes this ashy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2014
at 08:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 0.33l from local Alko. Enjoyed at home. Best Before 12.7.2014. Batch #26. Colour is black with slightly brownish white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, hints of chocolate, hints of coffee, hops and roasted malts. Very nice citrusy piquancy, good drinkability and appropriate hoppiness. Well done Hiisi.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2014
at 11:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle from Alko
BBE 12.07.14 batch 26 - Pours pitch black with a thick light brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, toasty notes, grassy hops, cocoa, hints of chocolate and coffee. Taste is smooth, hoppy and slightly roasty with some hints of dark chocolate, cocoa and toastiness. Finish is smooth, lingering bitter and grassy with citrusy notes, hints of roastiness and coffee. Tasty and hoppy black IPA with a nice long lasting bitterness. Nice one.
BBE 12.07.14 batch 26 - Pours pitch black with a thick light brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, toasty notes, grassy hops, cocoa, hints of chocolate and coffee. Taste is smooth, hoppy and slightly roasty with some hints of dark chocolate, cocoa and toastiness. Finish is smooth, lingering bitter and grassy with citrusy notes, hints of roastiness and coffee. Tasty and hoppy black IPA with a nice long lasting bitterness. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2014
at 10:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A cloudy, orange beer with a seething, medium and white head. Fruitfull nose, pine needles, some dry chalk and tartness. Taste is fruitfull, pine needles and tartness of sea-buckthorn berries. Taste is like aroma but quite short. Light+ bodied, quite strong carbonation. Nice beer but too thin and modest, thus not as good as stronger and jagged Rekola/Hiisi -version.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2014
at 07:34
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottled@wPBFIII. Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is berries, some sourness as well as sweet malts. Flaour is fruity, berryish, some acidic/tart wooden notes. Quite harsh to be honest...
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2014
at 10:10
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@wPBFIII. Hazy orangeish colour with some slight haze, small head. Aroma and flavour are both pine, some berries, mild citrusy notes as well as some slight herbal notes to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2014
at 10:08
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
A beautiful beer, colour is dark orange, a head is big and beige, also long lasting. The nose is succesfully, fruits with some tropical nuancees, grapefruits and pine needles, hint of fruit candies. Taste is fruitfull and slightly tropical, lots of pine needles, slightly rough, medium bitterness that stays until the end. Quite simple taste but succesfully. Almost medium bodied, balanced carbonation, fresh and quite smooth. Nice and rough beer without too dandyism. This mutt bites nicely.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2014
at 07:34