Latgales Gaišais

SIA DFD - Rezeknes Alus
Brewed at Rinkuškiai
Style: Pale Lager
Rezekne, Latvia

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

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Bottle. Pale golden, small whitehead. Sweet sugary aroma, some vegetables. Malty sweetish thin flavor. Sweet malty finish.

2L Bottle - Gold/amber with a foamy head. Malty aroma with hints of corn, grass and honey. The taste is fairly refreshing with malt, grain, hops and slight sweetness combining nicely. Nothing special, but it’s refreshing and easy to drink.

Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells of skunk and spicy. Tastes appley and sweet with some malty hints on the finish.

Bottle. Pours clear deep golden with a short white head. Bit sweet malty grainish aroma. Thin mouthfeel. The flavour is a bit sweet with grains, some malt and with a short bitterish finish.

UPDATED: JAN 17, 2008 500ml bottle. Wow - am I rating the same beer as you guys? Poured one glass with yeast and one without, so I could compare. Without the yeast, the aroma is quite lagery, some hints of vegetable occasionally. With yeast it’s a bit fuller, but has a strange plasticky tinge. Without yeast, there’s a decent bready taste and a real, but slightly emasculated, hop bitterness. The finish is pure hops - quite resiny. With yeast, it’s yeastier and the bitterness is accompanied, but smeared, by the tang of the yeast. Conclusion - I’d rather drink without yeast. Definitely had the soul of beer, you’re right, Estpiwo, not macroswill.

Bottled. Malty aroma, but I feel some oil tones. Petrol? Probably, problem in water. Golden color with small white head. Flavor is hoppy with bitter aftertaste. But I feel soul of beer unlike big corporatons brews.

Bottled. Clear golden in colour. Minor white head. It has a sweet and malty aroma. The flavour is weetly malty with a somewhat bitter aftertaste.

Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Skunky malts and hops in aroma. Malts and hops with unclean notes and white bread. Slight alcoholic notes also. Strictly for rating only, and once is enough.

Bottled (BB 10/2006). Golden color, small white head. Malty aroma mixed with vegetables. Malty unclean sweet wheat bun flavor. Typical Latvian pale lager - for rating purposes only.

Very sweet and bready aroma. Golden colored, little white head. Bland and watery mouthfeel, only mild carbonation gives something to feel. Some hops may be noticed before metallic and skunky ending. I’ve never liked these Baltic "gaisais-beers" very much, this is definitely one of the worst.