Karksi Hele

Brewed by AS Karme
Style: Pale Lager
Viljandimaa, Estonia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Clean golden color, small white head. Light sweet malty aroma with. Taste is sweet too, with malt, caramel, yeast, some bread and honey and quite strong alcoholic lightly bitter finish. Watery body and medium carbonation. Does not taste like regular pale lager, more like Vienna style. Overall nothing special but drinkable.

Pleasant aroma, smooth taste, strong and long lasting after taste, slightly bitter, very stable foam Color plays nicely in sunlight

Hazy? golden colour. Looks like its unfiltered or something wrong with the bottle. Aroma is malty. Flavour is sweet malty.

Pours clear golden with a high head. Aroma is slightly sweet malts, as is the flavor. Decent lager.

330ml bottle. Clear dark yellow color. Almost no head. Sweet watery, cardboard aroma. Butter, metallic, somewhat spicy taste. Cardboard, faint honey.

Bottle at home (0,5 L). Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma moderate malty (caramel). Flavor moderate sweet. Medium body. To sweet. Have they used hops at all?

swing-top bottle, courtesy of FatPhil - thanks a lot! Clear eggyolk-yellow colour, small white head. Sourish-yeasty-fruity aroma with a wild character, reminding me of gueuze. Light- to medium-bodied, grainy-biscuity malty base with lots of barnyard flavours and fruity hints. Shy hoppy flavours are detectable. This beer has a rather wild character, it’s unlike any other pale lager I have tasted. Fruity flavours go well with barnyard and the biscuit-like maltiness. The carbonation is just per5fect, smooth and fine. An interesting, very unusual and very delicious beer.

1L plastic bottle. Golden but no head. Low carbonation. Looks and smells like liquid butter. Taste is strange: buttery, nutty and slightly citric. I wonder why the 0,5L swing top bottle costs almost double the price of this 1L plastic bottle version.

(One litre plastic bottle - thanks SaintMatty) Poured golden and bit hazy. Head was small white and sparse. Aroma contained carboad, mildly malts and bit of sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were paper, carboard, sweetness and mild bitterness. Aftertaste was carboady bitter.

Plastic bottle (Thanks TM). Golden colour, not too much head. Aroma is biscuits, bready malts, some mild notes of grains and rubber. Flavour is quite much the same, as well as some strange sweetish starch/maizelike notes lurking as well.