Lapin Kulta (2007-)

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

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

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I’m quite unsure why Paris’ première international grocer, La Grande Epicerie, chose to stock Finnish beer, but nonetheless I found it there in bottles. This one is marked as 5.2% alcohol, I’m assuming it’s the same recipe however. Pours with a bit of head, golden body. Aroma is of tin and alcohol. Taste is mostly syrupy corn, a hint of grain, alcohol. Carbonated finish. A forgettable macrobrew.

Pours light golden with a medium frothy head. Aroma hay, bread, light hops. Very low palate, a classic "large quantities easily" lager.

50cl can. Small white head. Bubbly. A bit lighter than classic pilsener color. Light grainy aroma, hint of citrus. Light flavour with a touch of water. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

0,5l can. Clear golden color. Small thin head. Average pale lager. Very easy to drink. Watery.

33 cl can.
Originally rated on 20090215.
Pours pale clear golden color with medium head. Aroma of grass, grain, malts and mild hops. Flavor of malts, grain, dry hay and some corn.
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Draft @ hotel in Helsinki. Golden blond coloured beer with some light carbonation and a small white head. Almost buttery malty hinted aroma. Medium to full light creamy palate. Finish is sweet light grainy and malty hinted. Tastes better than it smells but overall a general pale lager. Nothing special.

33 cl can, BBE 09.06.2012. Thanks 0!
Aroma is sweetish and rather light with hay, some grain, bread and hints of grassy hops. Flavour starts with sweetish and somewhat grainy malt and finishes with starchy and somewhat sticky feeling with hints of metal. Better than I remembered but still bulky.

Bottle, pours clear golden with white head, Aroma is bread, malt. Taste is light sweet and bitterness.

UPDATED: FEB 15, 2012 Can. Golden colour with white head. A very average and ordinary pale lager, but absolutely ok. Moderate malty and hoppy flavour, and aroma.

Bottle 33 cl, Supermarket Loimaa. Poures clear golden with a fizzy white head. Aroma is malty, sweet, a bit fruity and straw. Flavor is malty, sweet, a bit bitter and watery. Finishes bitter and a bit sweet.

Bottle at The Pipeline, London. Typical pale lager. Pours clear, yellow-gold with a flimsy, white head. Sweet, light cereal on the nose. Flavor, too, is sweet, more cereal and modest grains, faint straw. Light in body with average carbonation. Crisp finish, more modest cereal and sugar. I actually really enjoyed this.