Canned@PBF VIII (thanks TBone!). Pale yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is grains, herbs and and mild rubbery and metallic notes. Flavour is very similar. Very cheap feeling to it. Mild cardboardy dryness.

33 cl can @ PBF, BBE 14.01.2014
Aroma has honey, some grainy notes and hints of grass. Flavour has honey, some grainy malt, cardboard, some grass and gooseberry bush. Harsh and bitter finish. Not very good.

After washing my house, this was a quite refreshing lager in the heat.
[Can Torbjørn gave me after last visit to his summer house in Albania]

12/11 A 0.33 l bottle thanks to Kreso and Marko! I’ve been waiting for tasting this for over 4 years, well, Marko already wrote the story. So, it poured golden body with medium sized head. Dull hops and bread malt aroma. Dusty. Flavor was a bit better though, slightly sweet and bitter, herbal and biscuity. Thin in body though, and while all the flavors were not too pronounced it was quite a decent pale lager, especially for Albanian standards.

12/11 Another 0.33 l bottle thanks to Kreso and Marko! It poured golden body with medium to bigger head. Selected aroma of salt and non selected faint hops, because they selected everything and put it away from this brew. Weak, slightly salty and slightly sweet flavor, thin for sure, with extremely short finish which becomes a bit more sweet afterwards. Absolute premium quality, as usual.

Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of Marko, shared with him and heavy. Golden coloured, medium sized white head, grain and some herbs in the nose. Watery cardboardish taste with hint of grain in the finish. Noticable CO2 presence. Typical Albanian beer.

Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of Marko, shared with him and heavy. Pale golden coloured, small to medium sized white head, whiff of caramel in the nose. Sweet water with hint of caramel and touch of salt near the end. Crap for sure.

4.5% bottle, 2017, shared with Hrabren. Clear golden body, white head. 5%, can, 2012. Wow. The aroma appears to be identical as it was before... salty and herbal, with some dull maltiness. Sweetish, eggy maltiness, with same salty herbal touches. Flat, dull but not as terrible as it used to be. Light bitter hoppy finish.Aaaah... there’s a whole story behind this one. So, heavy found it a loong time ago in Albania, when it was unknown to Ratebeer and pretty much the internet in general. It never reached Croatia because one of his friends on the trip, rummaging through the bag it was in managed to let it slip, fall and break - the single new and unknown beer of the trip. And now, years after that, we finally get to try it again, courtesy of Krešo. Yay! Didn’t note the colour, some shade of gold of course. Medium white head. Salty herbal, slightly malty nose. Typical Albanian saltwater taste, vaaaaague hop & light vegetables. Dear Albanian brewers. Please TRY a Czech pils next time before you think of making one. Thanks. 3/2/3/2/3

Huge thanks to Krešimir for bringing this one to Croatia! Well, it’s certainly not common that I get to be the first one to rate a beer from a country I’ve never been to, but hey, who cares. This poured a golden body with a medium sized white head that went away relatively fast, so no surprises there. Almost no aroma, vaaaaague malt. Now that’s Albanian beer that we all... well, try once and try not to try ever again. The taste is salty and still empty, with some extremely light alcohol. Or vegetables. Can someone please go there and teach them what a pils is. PLEASE.

Dull gold. Appley, flat with fusel notes. A cornucopia of faults in an oily-slick, heavy-bodied package. Bleh.