About
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.
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Hermod (18980) reviewed
Pläkki from Hiisi
12 years ago
7.4/10 — 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
laiti (11644) reviewed
Pläkki from Hiisi
12 years ago
7.1/10 — 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
VastActiv (17595) reviewed
Pläkki from Hiisi
12 years ago
7.4/10 — 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
tiong (22232) reviewed
Pläkki from Hiisi
12 years ago
7.8/10 — 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.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 10:26
TET (6950) reviewed
Kaksi kotia from Hiisi
12 years ago
6.4/10 — 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
oh6gdx (52920) reviewed
Kaksi kotia from Hiisi
12 years ago
4.9/10 — 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
oh6gdx (52920) reviewed
Rakki from Hiisi
12 years ago
6/10 — 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
TET (6950) reviewed
Rakki from Hiisi
12 years ago
7.2/10 — 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
TBone (31510) reviewed
Kaksi kotia from Hiisi
12 years ago
5.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle 330ml (WPBF)
Hazy orange color, small white head. Light tart, fruity aroma. Light-bodied. Berryish, American hoppy flavor. There is light tartish notes probably from "tyrni" but otherwise this is quite "mild" beer flavorwise. Quite different than Rekola’s stronger version.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2014 at 12:26
laiti (11644) reviewed
Kaksi kotia from Hiisi
12 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
33 cl bottle @ wPBF’14, BBE 15.5.2014
Aroma is a bit odd and musty with herbal tones and yeast. Flavour has herbal notes, some grain and yeasty tones. The buckthorn kicks in at the finish with tartness. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2014 at 12:21