Hartwall Karjala IV A

Brewed by Hartwall (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Helsinki, Finland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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040812. Can at a wedding in Vammala. Pours light golden with a medium head. Aroma bread, hay. Low palate.

Bottle from Alko in Pello, July 2012. Clear golden with a medium white head. Weak and sweet aroma and taste of malt and metal. Maybe some very light notes of fruit. Drinkable in the Sauna but otherwise very boring.

330 ml bottle.
Pours a golden colour with a white head. Lazy bubbles. Aroma of sweet grainy malts and some fruits. Flavour of sweet grainy malts, rough hops and some metals. Light bodied, thin mouthfeel and a light, sweet and weak bitter finish. Alcohol warms in the end. Overall very unoffensive and tasteless.

Orange tinged golden color, quickly disappearing white head. Malty-sweet smell with metallic notes. Taste is pretty sweet for a lager, malty tones dominate start to the middle of the taste, then comes the medium-bitter hoppiness. Watery palate. Nothing to write home about, but not offensive either, quite drinkable.

330ml can

A bit stronger but still just as tasteless and bulky lager.

Regular Karjala III is drinkable finnish pale lager, this really is on the edge.

UPDATED: AUG 18, 2011 Re-rating 18.8.2011. Appearance like Karjala III. A bit richer aroma and sweeter taste. This would be the main beer from Karjala if it were sold in grocery stores. Nonetheless, something you forget very quickly.

Karjala is a sweet beer in general, and I believe this is the sweetest version. It’s an ideal beer to be enjoyed alone, as it gives a taste like bread after the fist couple of sips, and the finish is very easy on the mouth.

Canned. metal aroma at first, then malty notes. Golden color, white foam. Bready and oily taste. Bitter finish with metal (at first) or old butter notes.

500 ml can. Finland.
Clear deep golden colour with small white head. Malt, alcohol and sugary sweetness (= play-dough) in aroma. Flavour is malt, sugar and alcohol. Drinkable. Some mild bitterness in aftertaste. Better than III version.