Bottled. Pale golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is malts, hops and some bready notes. Flavour is malts, hops and some sweetish notes. Pretty much like the old lapin kulta, but "fuller" with stuff now, meaning it’s not that watery anymore.

Canned (500ml). -as Lapin Kulta Premium Lager.
Brought by a friend from Tallin, Estonia. Pale golden coloured, airy white head, fizzy. Mild malty and hoppy aroma with some sweet notes in the finish.

Bottled, side by side tasting with an old recipe
Remember those so called "cola wars" from 1980s? When Pepsi became more popular than Coke, Coca Cola released "New Coke", which was advertised as "better". Lapin Kulta dominated Finnish markets 1990s, but in the 2000s Koff and especially Karhu became more popular brand. So Hartwall decided to change a recipe of their gem. Now we will see if it was only marketing gimmick or is it really better.
Both versions are golden yellow with very small white head. No difference in EBC values, I suppose. Both have similar sweet malty aroma, but this new version when opened, produced some nice grassy hoppy aromas, it faded away mostly but there was a faint hoppyness in the nose. New version has fullier, more malty body than the old Lapin Kulta. Old one is mainly sweetish malty, harsh and watery, new is more rounded and has better mouthfeel, fizzy finish and tiny tiny amount of hops in the aftertaste.They are both Lapin Kulta for sure, but new version is a step forward. Next target is compare to it brewery’s Karjala. Is THERE any difference?

Canned. Pale yellow, no head. Candyish pear-like nose. Sweet with lots of saccharine and estery winegum. Only artificial candy, no real apple character, sharp mouthfeel. Perhaps some ctric acid, but "extra dry" my ar*e!

330ml bottle. Lasting white foam over a deep golden body. Slightly grassy aroma with hints of malt. The initial taste is grainy followed by distinctive notes of apples and quite bitter lemons. Thin palate (thanks to Marko for bringing a bottle all the way from Tampere to The Midnight Sun Witchcraft Conference in Vardø - 01.07.2007)

Draught in Helsinki Airport
Blond color. Hoppy aroma; it’s light, but at least is there. Unfortunately the flavor is poorer than expected, almost watery mouthfeel, with light malt and light hopping, and the final is not very long.

Lapin Kulta Premium Lager, courtesy of and shared with ozujsko (thanks!) Poured a nice orange-gold colour with a big fluffy white head that went away fast. The nose surprised me first by the fact that it exists, and second that it isn’t bad for this type of lager. Nice hoppiness, some sweet fruity maltiness and dust. The taste is weak, but I’ve had worse. Some metallic hopiness and some weak fruit, smooth, a bit grainy, and that’s pretty much it.