Appearance: cloudy gold with a moderate white frothy head of low to medium retention. Aroma: wheat bread, clove. Taste: light sweet, bready phenolic. Low bitterness. Mouth feel: light to medium body. Lively carbonation. Bottom line: not my kind of Weizen. No banana. Too phenolic.

Appearance: clear brilliant yellow with a moderate white frothy head of mediocre retention. Aroma: grain, bread, crackers, hop hints. Taste: light plus sweet, low to light bitterness.grainy. A hint of grass. Mouth feel: light to medium body, soft to average carbonation. Overall: just a pale lager.

Pointless

Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.

Lithuanian Pilsener from a can, bought at a Russian supermarket in Ghent. Snow white, very irregularly shaped, shred-lacing, opening head on a crystal clear, pale straw blonde beer with no visible sparkling. Weak and rather neutral aroma: soggy breakfast cereals, strong ‘tin can’ iron effect, plaster, rubber, minerals, dry kitchen cloth, whiff of grass. Neutral onset, lively and minerally carbonation, clear metallic effect here, slender watery body; slick graininess, malt extract sweetishness, remaining very light-bodied and metallic until an unexpected grassy hop bitterness shows up in the end, albeit very mildly so. The metallic effect remains the most prominent feature here, the old ‘drinking from a can’ effect – clearly the improvements that were made in coating cans with a protective layer to prevent this from happening, have not yet reached this brewery. I hope they will, someday, but until then: boring, metallic, one-dimensional canned lager, redeemed just a little bit by that grassy bitter accent in the finish.