Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-06-05) Amber and clear. Medium sized and quickly disappearing white head. Malts and metallicness in aroma. Medium bodied palate with medium carbonation. Malts, ligthly roastedness, bitterness, sweetness and little bit of sea water in taste. Malts and bitterness in aftertaste.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled (Beerangel, BB 10/2009). Golden color, decent cloudy white head. Cardboardish, grassy hoppy nose. Sweet honeyish malty flavor. Finish is a bit watery with liquid metallic mouthfeel. Plastic malty aftertaste has some light cheap hops. Quite standard, not very exiciting. Their Export Hell is much better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled@Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Deep golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is malts, bread and some alcohol. Flavour is is alcohol, sweet malts, some bread, and somem grass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle 50cl.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090321]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Botted as "Weihnachts Bock" (Beerangel, BB 11/2009). Deep golden color, small white head. Grainy sweet malty nose with mild grassy hops. A bit bready. Medium-bodied. Bready, sweet malty, grassy hoppy. A bit harsh. Aftertaste is short, mostly some oily alcoholic flavors. Very close to East European strong lagers. Drinkable anyway.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 50 cl. Clear golden with a white head. Clean malty nose. Medium body, lightly sweet malts with a lightly bitter finish. 210308
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled (from beerangel.de). Hazy orangeish golden colour with big fluffy/foamy head, lacing. Aroma is wheat, some banana, mild spices and some slight wooden notes. Flavour is wheat, some banana, herbs and some coriander as well as yeastyness.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled (Beerangel, BB 07/2009). Golden color, good creamy white head. Aroma is hoppy and slightly buttery, also some grainy malty notes. Soft palate. Very sweet malty helles with nice long bitter finish and aftertaste. Some buttery flavors too. Good maltyness and rounded mouthfeel. Pretty good brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled (Beerangel, BB 07/2009, alc. 4.9 %). Clear dark ruby color, good creamy beige head. Nutty-caramelly nose with some chocolate in it too. Soft palate. Starts milk chocolate and toasted, but in the finish there is also some bitter flavors. Good maltyness in this enjoyable dunkel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 5.1%. Weak aroma hoppiness, hint of vegetable. Clear golden colour. Very small white head. The flavour starts off a little yeasty, has some fruity hop flavour. A little dusty note. Medium bitterness.