Apinitis Gaišais

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

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

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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.

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

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.