Aldaris Gaišais

Brewed by Aldaris (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Riga, Latvia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Light lager, but very well hopped, making it very refreshing. Quite similar to a North German pils like Jever. For once the commercial description describes the actual beer and not something the marketing detp has cooked up!

Corny foreign lager aroma. Milky amber with a medium snow white head, good lacing. Thin body. Delightfully goood honey and corn flavor, honeysuckle finish. Actually quite nice. Very similar to Luksus and perhaps better.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Spicy hop aroma. Yellow colour. Cereal biscuit flavour. Not a bad lager.

Pale gold & clear. Thick white head that stuck around for a while. Cereal dominates the nose. Soft, creamy mouthfeel, with a smooth finish. The aroma is mostly cereal, and the hops give it a light bitterness. That bitterness gets sharper along the way, but overall an easy-going lager. My first foray into Latvian beer has been an enjoyable one.

Bottle. Pours clear light yellow with an average, frothy, white head, mostly lasting with excellent lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (husky grain, hay, straw), average hops (grass), average yeast (earth, leaves) with notes of apple, pear, and vegetable. Light bodied, thin texture, average carbonation, and a chalky finish. Average duration, light sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2005 (Botle 50 cl) Very pale, slightly hazy beer. Looks almost like a Belgian witbier. Creamy, stable head leaving laces on my glass. If this really is a lager, it’s really rather unusual because of it’s odd wheaty touch. Slightly sourish and quite fresh. According to the Aldaris website this is a lager made pale with some barley-starch. But all in all surprisingly nice. 160104

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy with a frothy top bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a hazy softly carbonated yellow colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was floral and malty. crisp . The flavor contained notes of malt hops and grassy. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle from Tops in Tempe, AZ. Brassy gold color with a frothy white head. Very light malt and hop aromas. Medium body with frothy carbonaton. Flavor is lightly fruit, non-bitter, hop over pale malt. It’s mild, but tasty.