5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Bottle. Thanks to SaintMatty) Amber colour with disappearing, frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with dark bread, ryvita, brown sugar and hints of buttery malt. Malty, slightly fruity taste with notes of brown bread, toasty malt, dried fruit (raisins, prunes), brown sugar and hints of butter. Medium body, fairly sweet, with low bitterness. Decent, but not really exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2011
at 13:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle, with thanks to FatPhil. Brown colour, large off-white head. Malty-fruity base with caramel and more fruit, some dried dark fruit like raisins and prunes.Smooth carbonation. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2011
at 03:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
swing-top bottle, courtesy of FatPhil - thanks a lot! Clear eggyolk-yellow colour, small white head. Sourish-yeasty-fruity aroma with a wild character, reminding me of gueuze. Light- to medium-bodied, grainy-biscuity malty base with lots of barnyard flavours and fruity hints. Shy hoppy flavours are detectable. This beer has a rather wild character, it’s unlike any other pale lager I have tasted. Fruity flavours go well with barnyard and the biscuit-like maltiness. The carbonation is just per5fect, smooth and fine. An interesting, very unusual and very delicious beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2011
at 09:58
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottled, thanks SaintMatty! Clear dark amber, small head. Buttery nose. Sugary cellar flavour. Sweet with medium body, notes of perfumy apples, aging butter and stale dust. More of a sweet dunkel than a Baltic porter, but so it is in the Baltic countries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2011
at 06:16
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled. Deep ruby red colour, small off-white head. Aroma is enormous syrup, some some sap, mild spruce as well as maple. Flavour is syrup, some mild sour wooden notes as well as burnt sugar as well as some other extreme sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2010
at 08:02
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle, 1 litre, thanks SaintMatty) Due to my mistake I’m drinking this after the best before date has already passed. Beer is dark brown and its head was small, white and fizzy. Aroma was quite sweet with mild roastedness and bit of carboard. Beer had turned a bit dry and perhaps lost some of its carbonation. Body was medium. Flavours were dominated by sweetness and caramell. Bitterness was almost non-existent. There is some potential was better beer but all is drowned by the excessive sweetness. Drinking the whole bottle would be too much..
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2010
at 10:08
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle, 1 litre - thanks SaintMatty) This was close to its best before date. Opening the cork resulted only in small hiss. Colur was deep golden and no head was formed. Aroma perhaps had suffered while the bottle had been waiting for to be drunk. There was clear carboard and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were quite typical to European Strong Lager: sweetness, malts, carboard and mild bitterness. Aftertaste was just sweet. Drinkability was quite good and the sweetness wasn’t too intense. But this didn’t please me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2010
at 09:41
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
(One litre plastic bottle - thanks SaintMatty) Poured golden and bit hazy. Head was small white and sparse. Aroma contained carboad, mildly malts and bit of sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were paper, carboard, sweetness and mild bitterness. Aftertaste was carboady bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2010
at 10:18
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
1L Bottle - Hazy copper in colour. Bready aroma with hints of raisins and caramel. Sweet and slightly fruity taste with malt, dried fruit, caramel and some bready notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2010
at 15:39
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
1L Bottle - Brown with reds tinges. Dried fruit with hints of caramel and raisins in the aroma. Sweet taste with raisins, malty and caramel. Not really like a porter, but drinkable anyway.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2010
at 12:07