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

(Kiev 2016) 400 ml. draft draft @ Wooly Hops. Dark hazy golden, creamy soapy white head. Nose is soapy with citrus hops, served a bit too cold, green hops & low lemon grass. Taste is milky yeast, lemon grass, some odd yoghurt, little hops, lemon grass, citrus, tad bland. Body is yoghurt, yeast. Okay but promising if only more hops & less yeast, good start let us say.

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

(Kiev 2016) 400 ml. draft @ Wooly Hops. Brewed with Carpathian (where these guys are from) spices, not sure which one, waiter made an educated guess but I don’t have a specific list. Very dark amber, creamy off-white head. Nose is sweetish pine hop, mango, spice, candy malt, fruity & cheesy hops with some odd mint thrown into, interesting. Taste is very heavy on the spices upfront, getting very heavy mint, flowers, spearmint, intense, lightly vegetable spices, faint moly yeast in the finish, low milky yoghurt, touch basement, very heavy mint & spearmint taste takes some getting used to but I found it enjoyable in the end, very interesting. Shame about the yoghurt & low mold notes & body, would have definitely worked better without them, different yeast, more popping hops, this is a great & interesting start.

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

(Kiev 2016) 400 ml. draft @ Wooly Hops. Their dark house beer (unlike the blond perpetually available during my stay / kegs of the blond seemed to have some issues). Blackish dark brown. Nose carries some cheesy seemingly they used some old USA hops (I assume getting hold of prime USA hops for a small Ukrainian brewery might be bit of challenge), besides the cheesy hops nose is mainly thick blueberry & grape jam, thick. Taste is very thick blueberry low herbal jam, syrup, little hop, dry herbal roast, low roast in finish, chicory coffee. Very thick & syrupy. Strange beer, very non-BIPA, comparable to some other Ukrainian dark “craft” beers that tried in its strange dark fruit syrup stylings. Not bad, big hard to drink & a bit strange, partially enjoyable, a bit too heavy on the syrup, not really a BIPA for me.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

(Kiev 2016) 400 ml. draft @ Wooly Hops. Dark amber, creamy tanned head. Nose is big Bavarian meaty smoke, very heavy leather, Lapsang Souchong, thick smoke & faint soap. Taste is massive oily smoked tea, very easy to drink, low hop oil, very big leather, Lapsang Souchong,… Very easy oily body. Very nice Bavarian-style smoked beer, lovely to drink, bit too simple maybe to really shine but this one & Pravda McGuiness were for me the finest Ukrainian beers out of the +/- 100 that I tried during my stay.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

0.33l bottle from pivnaya karta in kiev. aroma of herbs, plastic, medicine, a hint of smoke. flavour of herbs, bread, chemicals. flat carbonation. weird.

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А чорна ципа хороша!!!

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