olio (15000) - Tampere, FINLAND - FEB 19, 201333 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20090509.
Pours golden color with a small head. Aroma of caramel, grass, fruits and some malts. Flavor of malts, caramel, toffee and fruit notes.
laiti (11483) - Tampere, FINLAND - FEB 4, 201333 cl bottle @ home. Rated on 09.10.2009
Aroma is somewhat malty with bread and nuts. Flavour feels a bit stale with bready malt, some grain, hops, toffee and nuts. Also some spices. Not the most typical EPA.
lusikka (7837) - Espoo, FINLAND - SEP 9, 2010330 ml bottle @ Olutravintola Pannuhuone. Rated @ 28.2.2010.
Pours a brown colour with a small white head. The aroma is mildly sweet malts, hops and fruits. The flavour is lightly malty and slightly bitter. Average Pale Ale.
Blom (907) - Sorø, DENMARK - FEB 26, 2010Brown with a low, but dense head. Aroma of biscuits, nuts and floral hops. The flavour is very fresh wit a good malt profile and a nice bitter finish.
gyllenbock (16735) - Stockholm, SWEDEN - JAN 5, 2010Bottle. (old notes from 2007)
Dark, slightly hazy amber. Quite hoppy aroma with notes of smoke and caramel.
Dry, clean, light taste with a little metallic and earthy bitterness. Descent.
Lubiere (22778) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 4, 2010A beautiful golden amber ale with a thin lacing off white head. Nice caramel malt in aroma with light cinnamon notes. In mouth, a good bready caramel malt with creamy mouthfeel, a bit of cinnamon hearts, more like a vienna, medium bodied. Bieropholie import, BB Jan 09, tasted Jan. 4 2010.
radiomgb (2686) - Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA - DEC 23, 2009Golden-orange in colour with a thin lasting white head, good lacing.
Aroma is slightly hoppy, floral and fruity, caramel malt sweetness.
Flavour is lightly bitter, grassy and light citrus hops, some caramel sweetness, some tea.
Dry mouthfeel, light body, medium carbonation.
Finishes very dry, juicy and bitter.
Pretty light all-round but nothing really wrong with this.
330ml bottle obtained in a trade with Boutip, thanks Phil.
Opened on November 15, 2009.
Best before January 2009.
bierkoning (20220) - La Tropica/Doarp, NETHERLANDS - AUG 5, 2009Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Amber color. Malty bready flowery aroma with speculaas. Malty sweetish spicy flavor with nutmeg and speculaas. Flowery bitter finish. Tasty beer for such a modest ABV.
Dickinsonbeer (5073) - Hoboken, New Jersey, USA - JUN 15, 2009Mondial 2009. Pours a medium slightly hazy copper with a thinning head. Aroma is earthy hops, slight tea like and light caramel and toffee malts. Flavor is good english yeast- light fruits, with an herbla nad tea hop kick with some earthy hints and smooth malts as it warms. relatively smooth. Ok for a EPA or bitter.
SaintMatty (10530) - Uppsala, SWEDEN - JUN 15, 2009330ml Bottle - Copper coloured. Moderately hoppy aroma with grapefruit, peach and some spicy malt notes. Hoppy and fruity taste with grapefruit, caramel and spicy malt.