Lapin Kulta III

Formerly brewed at Hartwall (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Helsinki, Finland

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

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0,5 l can. Golden color, ok white head. Malty, some caramell sweetness and some bitterness in the finish.

A better part of finnish "bulkkiolut" genre. Suits fine after sauna or when you are thirsty, but nothing special or interesting.

Bottle in restaurant. Pale golden colour with big head. Malty, easy to drink, not great, basic bulk lager.

Sold in the UK as ’Premium lager’ no mention of 111, but obviously the same beer at 4.5%. Green 33cl bottle, best before 26th Jun 09, drank 17th Mar 09. Poured into a Veltins Pilsner stemmed tulip glass twice. Usual golden lager/pilsner look, bright, clear and clean. Good sized white head on top at first, turning into a collar and wisp just as quick as the cheaper versions brewed all over the world. Odourless, gets my standard 3 for a non-smelling lager/pilsner. Watery and weak in taste and bodyfeel, not overly impressed, a lager from Laos was comsummed before this beer and it was miles better in every aspect. This is a ’burp’ lagerbeer, just full of wind and no substance. A dry metallic nasty flavour begins to appear towards the end of the mouthfeel and as the beer warmed up at the end of the tasting, it started to have a damp cardboard sort of tang, not nice. Very dissapointed, my first Finnish beer and it is a dud!

Very pale, no bubbles, quite nice white head though. Smells tiny bit hops. Taste is watery, and mildly sweet. Strange how little alcohol can push through on surface of aroma when there is nothing else. Pretty rubbish.

0.5l can. Beleive this is my first one from our neighbor country. It pours a a clear pale golden body, some small unfiltered particles and it has a small quickly fading white lager head. The aroma is mild sweet, thin and light malty with a hint of watery hops and not much more. It has a nice lager mouthfeel, mid bodied and average carbonated. Tastes just what you’d expect it to taste. Like a lager. God, I’m really horrible in describing and explaining the differences in these lager beers, but really, what is there to say? Thin and light malty, some bitterness but it’s utterly dull and boring. 03.03.2012

Pours light clear golden with minimal white head. Weak aroma has fruity notes, malt and grassy hops. Mild taste has some malt and hops. Watery mouthfeel and short finish. Slightly but nicely bitter. Some unpleasant metallic notes also. Boring but not the worst finnish pale lager.

Goldish color with small head. Aroma is butter and some light malts. Actually this beer smells quite bad. Flavor is like regular Finnish bulk-shit-beer. Easy and mild beer.

Bottle at Trysil Høyfellssenter. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate. Surprisingly nice.

Had this beer some time ago (years months), transferring data from a data base I was using to rate beer. As I drink these again I will add a complete review.

Bulk Finnish generic pale lager. Somewhat watery taste. Nothing too special about this.