Cloudy yellow color with a fine white top. Good intensity in the aroma. Medium (+) body and a soft carbonation. Good balance between sourness and acidity. Yeast, mild peat, citric and fruity flavor. Ok complexity and quite easy and ok to drink.
[On tap at Põrgu Õllelokaal in Tallinn, Estonia]

Brewery #1488

Trübes goldenes Bier mit einer geringen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch trocken floral hopfig, grasig, hefig. Geschmack leicht säuerlich fruchtig, grasig, trocken, floral, interessant.

Many thanks to rosenbergh for this bottle! Great fresh nose, hints of yeast, hints of alcohol. Sweetish bready. The beer starts intense yeasty-fresh, sweetish-fruity with sourish hints. Lots of carbonation and a round and bready body. The aftertaste has lots of yeast there, a nice sourish-sweet body, fresh and deep with a long and spicy aftertaste. Very smooth, no bitterness, interesting and fascinating stuff with a warming smooth yeasty aftertaste.

TAP at Porgu. Smells vaguely as a weizen - fruity, banana, tart with quite a bit of nail polish. Tastes, again, like a harsh hefeweizen, fruity, phenolic and unhopped, lightly sweet and a bit tart, with considerable estery heat. The finish is a bit dirty, rotten cabbage like. Interesting.

Draft @ Põrgu. Dorée, pas col. Arôme ofre un plaisant bouquet épicé de baies, ici domine le genévrier, le tout garde une pointe adoucie fermentée en rétro-nasal. Palais est assez plat offrant peu en terme effervescence, retrouve un côté fermenté agrémenté ici encore par le genévrier. Cette dominance de baies reste fort plaisante, le tout terminant sur une touche amer finement aigrelette avec qcq bulles qui viennent titiller la langue. L’alcool, tout de même à 7%, perce en fin de bouche et est maintenu par le caractère du genévrier.

Small white head. Hazy opaque yellow body. Powerful smoky mealy banana aroma, kind of wheat-like, oily herbal yoghurt notes. Dry, and faintly acidic, citric strawy smoky taste with yoghurty notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, mealy mouthfeel. Leaves a peppery, abrasive feeling in the mouth that lasts a long time. Dry, again faintly acidic, peppery yoghurty banana aftertaste with smoky orangey juniper notes. Very interesting, highly drinkable, and full of flavour. I like it. (1l PET bottle by devious means.)

I’ve had it a number of times since, from the fermenter, at the brewery outlet, in Tallinn, and again at home from PET bottle. What strikes me is that it’s never the same beer twice, even if some things are constant. The original rating is pretty good, but there is more juniper flavour than I noticed the first time, and the hot peppery thing has never appeared again. Also, a lot of the green, earthy, musty flavour is very like the Lithuanian raw ales, and so probably from the brewing process. It’s a very good beer, though, and deserves to be considered a farmhouse classic.

Draught @ SOPP 2014

Pours murky yellow with a smooth head. Aroma of yeast, wheaty notes, tartness and farmyard. Taste is yeasty and earthy with loads of juniper, banana and farmyard. Finish is yeasty and stuffy with some banana and farmyard. This tastes like a mix of a weizenbock and Sahti.

Draught at SOPP 2013. Smell of honey, salt. Cloudy yellow colour, white head. Aroma of yeast, salt, basement aromas. Flat carbon.