Huvila Hyvä Tuomas Jouluolut

Brewed by Malmgårdin Panimo - Malmgard Brewery
Style: Bitter
Malmgård, Finland

Serve in English pint

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UPDATED: DEC 26, 2010 Draught at Maltainen Monni, Helsinki, Finland.
Hazy copper colour with thin head. Dry flavour is slightly hoppy and bitter with some seasoning. Bitter finish. Flavour could be stronger. But not bad for a Finnish Christmas Ale.

500 ml bottle. Finland.
Dark reddish brown colour with small frothy off-white head. Caramel malt and bitterish fruity hops in aroma with some spices. Fruity hops, malt and some spices in flavour.

50 cl bottle @ home, BBE 22.04.2012
Aroma has toffee, cookies and caramel. Flavour is rather weird, it feels like a raw bun dough. Also some vegetables, cookies and toffee. A weird one, I find it hard to say whether I like this or not. Probably not.

50cl bottle. Poured dark mahogany with a decent beige head. Aroma is nutty, dark fruity and has some yeasty notes. Flavor is bitter chocolate, raisin and maltyness. Slighty chocolaty finish. Light body. Not bad.

Clear amber, tan head. Nose is interesting - strawberries, nuts, malt, hints of caramel. Taste is malt, hay, some caramel, hints of berries with bitterness in the finish. Palate is on the thin side. Not bad, but expected more.

http://drinkbarbeerreviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/ch my review of the beer here.

Pours clear brown with a low head. Aroma is fruits and honey. Flavor is mostly malts, pretty basic ale really. Decent.

500ml bottle from Eat & Joy in Helsinki. Clear, amber-brown body colour. Initial a decent amount of off-white head. Weak smell of dried fruits and grainy malts. Mid-sweet taste of nutty malts and dried fruits. Thin to medium bodied. Easy to drink. Average (hotel room, Helsinki 03.02.2011).

Bottle. Darkish clear brown beer with white head. Sweet malts and hint of hops on the nose. Taste is fairly bitter with sweetish malts towards the end. Quite watery, not enough body and the balance isn’t very nice either.

500 ml bottle.
Pours a dark reddish brown colour with a very small head. Aroma of caramel malts and grass. Flavour of bread, loads of nuts, caramel malts, grass and hay. Medium bodied with a slick mouthfeel. Quite dry, malty finish. Average bitter with nuts.

Tumman ruskea/punainen väri ja valkoinen, runsas ja paksu vaahto. Tämä vaahto tuntuu sinnitttelevän pitkään oluen pinnalla suojaamassa aromeja pakenemiselta. Hieman mausteinen, maltainen ja tumman hedelmäinen tuoksu. Suutuntuma on miellyttävän pehmeä. Maku on hedelmäinen ja mausteinen. Hieman paahtuneisuutta arvattavissa maltaissa. Jonkin verran katkeraa, nurmikkoista humalointiakin maussa on. Vähähiilihappoinen ja ihan mukava olut talviseen illanviettoon.

Huvila beers are usually great but this stays below average. light and weak. some spices but clearly more would have been better.