Huvila I.P.A.

Formerly brewed at Panimoravintola Huvila (-2009)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Savonlinna, Finland

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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UPDATED: MAY 27, 2008 My favourite ale last summer.A perfect ale to have during a hot summer day ( and before and later ). An exellent balance with fruity hops and aroma of candy malt.

Draught at Helsinki beer festival 2007. Red amber color. Candyish, fruity, perfumed and peppery hop aroma with notes of marmelade and berries. Toasty and fruity flavor with firm bitterness and notes of marmelade. Balanced, clean and pleasant.

Draught at Kaisla, Helsinki. Clear amber, small head. Grapefruity hop aroma. Dry and salty, clean and crisp with medium body. Well hopped and with a core of crystal malt. Long salty bitterness. Decidedly American in style, but stays pretty much to the main road as far as IPAs are concerned, and does not really lift to the top levels that some Huvila beers does.

(From tap at Bierhuis Rotterdam, Helsinki) Beautiful copper color. Fruity and hoppy nose. Flavor is very complex with nice bitter, sweetness and lemon. Refreshing. Bitter and pleasant aftertaste vanishes all too quickly.

Draught at Oluthuone Kaisla, Helsinki
Beautiful red-amber color. The aroma is mild, hoppy and fruity, a bit herbal. The flavor is basically medium caramel with an ending strong bitterness, partially aromatic and fruity. A Bitter with more fruity hops. Good.

(From tap at Angleterre, Helsinki) This ones pretty damn good. Flowery and hoppy nose, dark amber color. Very intense taste, almost a bit too vivid. Bitter, full, some sweetness. Caramel is there. Nice smooth carb. I don’t know if this is a bit too intense, in a juice concentrate without enough water kind of way.

Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo) Excellent immitation of the English style, better than many of the best English examples, and vastly better than the more modern bastardisations of the style. Deep ruddy colour, little head. Caramel and woody or even nutty aroma. Full bodied combination of malt and bitter in the mouth.Long bitter aftertaste.

Draught. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is hops, grass and caramel. Flavour is fruity hops, and caramel witha big grassy finish. Not much aftertaste, except for grass and earth.

Helsinki Beer Festival 2007. Aroma of candy malt, sweet but not too strong. Red cola colour, small beige head. Taste nice, full bitterness with a smooth, oily texture.

Dark amber colored, vanishing yellow head. Sweet, caramelly, even some oaky-vanilla tones in niecly hopped aroma, good one. Medium bodied. Flavor is more hopped with caramel touch, some bubblegum, lemon and sweetness there also. Aftertaste dries finely, even mild alcohol comes up there. Fine balanced nice IPA for at least to be from Finland.