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.
0,33l bottle from K-Citymarket Keljo, enjoyed @ Muurame. Pours cloudy golden with a medium head. Aroma is clean grainy malts. Flavor is clean grainy malts with some hops. Pretty decent.
Bottle. Black colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquorice, some toffee, a wee bit of alcohol along with some tobacco tones. Flavour is liquorice, roasted malts, tobacco and some mild toffeeish tones. Rather sweet
(Keg at William K Kurvi, 20221228) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had sweetness, grass and malts. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, sweetness, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was fruity and bitter. A rather unpleasant brew.
Orange, hazy with a white head. Lots of hoppiness aroma, some spices and citrus. Light bitter, some sweetness with a dry tropical fruit and spices end bb 04.2023, From Rovaniemi 11.2022
Black with a minimal light brown head. Aroma of wooden barrels, licorice and dried fruit sense. Sweet with a warm wooden barrels and licorice ending. Bb 11.2026, from Rovaniemi 11.2022
0,33l bottle from K-Market Jätkäsaari, shared with wiosna @ home. Pours hazy brown with a low head. Aroma is roasted malts with boiled vegetables. Flavor is roasted malts, coffee, spices, hops. Good, but unclean.
Bottled 330ml (Alko web) Golden colour, small white head. Sweetish honeyish malty aroma, some grass. Medium-bodied. Flavour is not sweet at all: malty, alcoholic, grassy. Very German. Faint tartness indicates something...
Das nächste Bier aus der Finnland-Craftbierbox Finnisch ist so eine Sprache, von der man überhaupt nichts versteht, wenn man sich nicht damit beschäftigt. Offenbar heißt die Brauerei Hiisi und Rakki ist das Bier, was wiederum eine Sagenfigur in Wolfsform zu sein scheint. Dies hier ist ein Honigbier, das allerdings nicht sonderlich süß ist und daher nicht besonders süffig rüberkommt. Im Grunde ein nettes Bier, aber als Honigbier ist es mir zu bissig.