Malduguns

in Rauna, Vidzeme, Latvia 🇱🇻


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7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle (from koht). Pours black with beige head. The head doesn’t stay. Aroma is sweet, roast, cocoa, malt. Flavor is sweet and bitter, roast, malt. Finish is roast bitter. Overall: very good.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2015 at 14:37


7.3
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle, BB 26.04.2016 (from Koht). Pours amber with beige head. The huge head stays. Aroma is sweet, hoppy, caramel, citrus, oranges. Flavor is sweet, citrus, oranges, caramel, malt. Finish is tangerines and dry bitter. Carbonation is low. Overall: feels somewhat flat and somewhat boring (as it is a single hop), but then again it has no stupid gimmicks or flaws and it is very sessionable and nice to drink. --- Beer merged from original tick of Zaļā Bise Horizon on 17 Sep 2017 at 15:53

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2015 at 15:15


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

50cl bottle from Valmiermuiža Alus Tirgotava, Riga. Pours black with a lasting, beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, some dark fruits, hint of wood, caramel and earthy notes, Medium sweet with nice roasty flavours, hints of acidity and a fairly light bitterness. Easy to drink, tasty and quite balanced. .(BB: 23.09.2015)

Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2015 at 15:31


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle (shared by Marduk, thanks!). Pours copper with beige head. The head stays for a moment. Aroma is sweet & malty, citrus, mandarins. Flavor is sweet, malt, citrus, rye, mandarins. Overall: good.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2015 at 14:16


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours dark brown with a nice beige head - that is gone in seconds and leaves the beer looking relatively flat. Aroma is soft, with some roast shining though pillowy milkiness. Gives me some hints about the heavy body that I should expect. Taste profile is much to my liking - it has some roast character to it but it doesn’t become too bitter and the roast does not dominate. Also, it is not sour, something that usually happens when body is weak. The body of this one is strong and stodgy, almost completely missing carbonation making it even heavier. Velvety and soft milky stout. Not bad at all, but probably at least some carbonation would lighten things up more.

Tried on 29 Jul 2015 at 08:45


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Thanks to TimE for sharing the bottle at the tasting! Poured into a taster showing high filtration and amber hues. The nose shows very light pineapple with hints of cannabis. The palate immediately shows a strong punchy IPA bitterness. Light bodied with a strong grainy/malt flavor (no sweetness though, completely dry).

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2015 at 01:15


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours darker amber, nice creamy look to it. Aroma is quite full of warm autumn hops. Fruity and full of berries. Taste is also quite intense with hop bitterness. Malty, fruity, somehow getting mild at the end. Quite easydrinking for double IPA I think, especially for 8,9%.

Tried on 19 Jul 2015 at 01:09


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Medium amber color. Dry piney and citrusy nose. The mouth is a bit stickly with decent malt backbone with decent warming finish but a bit basic. Decent.

Tried on 18 Jul 2015 at 07:15


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

50cl bottle from Valmiermuiza shop in Riga. Pours close to clear amber with an off-white head. Moderate fruity aroma with notes of malt, caramel and hints of citrus and grass. Medium sweet with rather mild hoppy flavours and seems more malty than I remember from the others in the series. Maybe it’s getting old or maybe it’s just not my kind of hops. Not bad in anyway, but the others I’ve tried I’ve liked more. Decent IPA still, but not quite my kind.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jun 2015 at 12:59


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared thanks to Deanso. Pours clear amber with a tan head. Aroma of caramel malt, orange peel, resinous hops, pineapple and toffee. Flavour is over moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2015 at 14:29