Apinitis Gaišais

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

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

Slightly sour malt aroma. Tart and grainy malt taste with a little dry hop bitterness, aftertaste is slightly acidic. Boring and not very good!

Bottled. Clear pale golden, coarse head. Light and fruity with clean mouthfeel. Some phenols and syrup. slight resiny bitterness. A simple industrial lager without discerning features.

Fairly sweet malt aroma. All malt tasting though. A little bit of light herbal flavour on the back, although the bitterness is quite low. Pretty tasty actually. Standard pale lager profile, but much cleaner than I imagined it would be.

Bottle. fruity aroma. Yellow color with minimal head. Beer for thirsty people or after sauna.

UPDATED: JUN 2, 2008 2L bottle
Fairly bland. Sweet fruity aroma. Mealy cooking apples taste. But drying on the palate. Not bad. I can only imagine that this apinitis brand has been cynically created by Carlsberg/Aldaris in order to give the pretence of being a brand different from the same multinational swill. It ain’t, it’s still Lats in Carlsberg’s coffers.