Draught @ Gallows Bird Kekri 2012

Pours dark brown with a small bubbly head. Aroma of bready malts, berries, caramely notes and hints of spices. Taste is malty and sweetish with bready notes, a lot of berries, grassy hops and hints of caramel. Finish is sweet and sticky with berries and spices. Okay, quite easygoing dark Belgian ale.

A slightly cloudy, orange colour beer with a almost medium and blond head. Aroma is nice, aromatic fruits, some tropical fruits, orangemarmelade, dry malts and some rainy pineforest. Taste is quite bitter, biscuits, some pine needles, quite long-lasting, dry and bitter aftertaste, but where are the fruits? Light+ bodied, medium bitterness. Nice beer with enough of aromatics and bitterness, unfortunately the fruits are disappered after the aroma, still succesfull beer.

A slightly reddish beer with a weak and blond head. Aroma is mild, toffee, some berries and fresh, wet forest after the rain. Sometimes there are some sour, sulphur and unpleasant nuancees in the aroma. Taste is also too mild, toffee, some drying woods and hint of sour&sweet. Medium- bodied, nice body, lightness isn’t bothering. Quite nice beer, but unfortunately, too mild and carefull.

Bottled (from Luomupuoti Lumo, Rauma). Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, spruce, some mild spices and herbal notes as well. Flavour is spruce, some sweet malts, mild bitterness as well as some herbal notes.

Bottled, thanks oh6gdx! Hazy amber, rich head. Caramelly nose. Mid sweet with light body and rounded mouthfeel. Slight spruce flavour. Low bitterness.

Draught @ Gastropub Praha
Aroma has gooseberry bush, some vanilla, fruits and hints of cinnamon. Flavour is slightly tart hops, gooseberry bush, some nettles, vanilla and hints of bun dough. Leathery palate with slightly too much CO2. Decent, the hops feel a bit old here. Also the yeasty bun dough notes disturb here. Perhaps a bit old keg?
6+3+5+3+12=2.9

50 cl bottle @ Pienpanimoiden Pieni Olut-tapahtuma, Mallaskoski, Seinäjoki
A lot better. Feels fresh with nice hop profile and no signs of yeast. Score estimate 3.5.

50 cl bottle @ home as ”Ruukin Vaalea”. Rated on 6.7.2014
Aroma has sweet fruity notes and hops. Flavour has hops, peaches, minerals and a Belgian feeling. A bit watery and flat at the end of the glass. Easy to drink but could be more aggressive with hops.
7+3+7+2+14 = 3.3

Draught @ Gastropub Nordic
Aroma is rather spicy with rosemary and some juniper. Flavour is spicy with rosemary, some juniper and ginger. Too spicy and messy.

Draught @ Gastropub Nordic
Aroma is somewhat stale with bready malt and a starchy feeling. Flavour is sweetish and somewhat spicy with some bready malt, caramel and biscuits. Spearmint in the aftertaste. Also some weird aroma which probably is that spruce sprout sprölölö mentioned in description text. Interesting.

Draught @Syystober 2012. Poured hazy copper with a thin white head. Aroma has fruity notes, strawberries? and malt. Flavor was hard to detect at first, overall a smooth mouthfeel, spruce is coming though in the finish, but in a harsh kind of way. Weird brew for sure.