Subsidiaries
3.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Creamy, white tophead over a clear, amber body. Good laceworks. Mild grassy malts to the nose. Dry and sweet grainy taste and that’s it (330ml bottle shared with Finn, Tromsø 16.05.2008).
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2008
at 13:31
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle 0,33l. Golden brown colored. An OK creamy head that disappeared rapidly. Malty aroma. Unvaried flavor of sweet malt. No bitterness. KI=4
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2008
at 15:43
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt. flavour is sweet, fruit, malt, grain. A little bit boring beer.
Tried
from Can
on 04 May 2008
at 06:51
2.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
50cl can. Pale straw with a thick white head; musty hop aroma; strange metallic taste; rather unpleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Apr 2008
at 16:01
3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
33cl bottle from Alko, Helsinki. Amber with a billowing white head; grainy aroma; cardboard flavour; some short bitterness. Not at lot to recommend.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2008
at 09:27
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
44cl can of Hartwall 1836 Classic Porter. Dark reddish brown with a thick beige head; extremely malty aroma, with no trace of any roast; very thin, sweet malt flavours, not really a porter; but redeemed by some dry chocolate on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2008
at 11:21
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Can. Pours a clear, maybe a bit pale, golden body and a nice white head. Pale malt, some weak grainy aroma, a little fruityness and a faint note of cooked vegetables. Sweet on the palate, with cooked vegetables playing a minor part here as well, but overpowered by grains, grass and fruityness. Not much bitterness detected, and it finishes in the same way, sweet and fruity, but low on bitterness. Quite thin on the body. There is a little touch of metal as well in the finish.There’s not much wrong going on here, but there’s not much interesting going on either. Bland and boring, but refreshing. Guess that was what they were aiming for also. (080419)
Tried
from Can
on 19 Apr 2008
at 09:02
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled. Deep golden colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is quite bready with some grainy hints. Also some hops and mildly earthy notes. Flavour is bready, earthy and flowery hoppy. Rather hoppy finish, but not much aftertate. Indeed seems like a new recipe, as it neither reminds of Lapin Kulta nor Karjala.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 13:22
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Can (BB 11/2008)
"Lahden Sininen" was a classic Finnish lager by Mallasjuoma (later bought by Hartwall), which disappeared in the late 1990’s. Very pale golden color, good white head. Grainy, rubbery aroma with hints of corn. Harsh malty, cornish flavor, mild grassy hops. Finish is watery, weak maltyness. Some metal in the aftertaste. Taste is very cheap.
"Lahden Sininen" was a classic Finnish lager by Mallasjuoma (later bought by Hartwall), which disappeared in the late 1990’s. Very pale golden color, good white head. Grainy, rubbery aroma with hints of corn. Harsh malty, cornish flavor, mild grassy hops. Finish is watery, weak maltyness. Some metal in the aftertaste. Taste is very cheap.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2008
at 06:57
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Canned. Pale yellowish golden colour, small white head, which disappears quite fast. Aroma is sweet metallicness along with malts, grains and grass. Also some slight rubbery notes. Flavour is rubbery, grainyness, as well as some malts and hops. Leaves a metallic/rubbery aftertaste along with some hoppyness. Another sad product from Hartwall.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Mar 2008
at 12:29