2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20Draught@Lido Alus Seta, Riga, Latvia - 24/2/2011. Amber color and minimal head. Caramelly and Bready aroma. Quite sweet taste with minimal bitterness.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Medium creamy dense offwhite head. Slightly hazy deep amber body with strong carbonation. Mealy strawy aroma with herbal dusty notes. Dry-sweetish dusty strawy grainy taste with spicy earthy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dryish-dusty strawy aftertaste with earthy grainy notes. Nice, vivid, but not very exciting. (0.3l draft at Alus Setas, Riga.)
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pretty decent, oily, root-beer-y Vienna, true enough to style (if heavily featuring that yeasty taste that seems to be the trademark of everything in Latvia). Hops low enough to form, but too light and not enough caramel/treacle notes for style points
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tap @ LIDO Dzirnavu Street 74, Riga.
Hazy, brown color. Firm medium size head, stays. Yeast, malty, bit sugary and caramels in aroma. Heavy malts, bready, yeast, grainy and detectable hops in flavor. Full bodied, but slightly off and slick. Drinkable brew.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught @ Alus Seta - Lido, Tirgonu iela 6, Riga, Latvia LV - 1050.
Hazy medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, caramel, light to moderate hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet toffee, caramelized malt, malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120729]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
The body is orange-brown and cloudy. It smells yeasty, a bit darkmalty. It tastes fresh sour, a bit yeasty. Ok! 10/9/10/9/-/9
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
On keg at Lido in Riga. Pours a golden colour with a fair beige head. Aroma of caramel, yeast and biscuity malt. Similar flavours with a grassy hop linger. Moderate carbonation with a foamy mouth-feel and a little CO2 prickle. Not bad.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Draught (Staburags, Riga). Scent of tangy butterscotch. Malt flavor with obvious hints of caramel and butterscotch. This beer is really not good! On the verge of undrinkable!
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
0.5L pour at LIDO. Amber golden pour with a little bit of white head. The aroma is a little bit sweet and slightly fruity. There is a touch of DMS along with some light malt sweetness. A light floral character but muted. It’s okay though. It’s no cask bitter, that’s for sure.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at Lido in Tallinn. Amber body, nice head. Fresh malty aroma with some yeast. Taste is slightly caramelly and malty. Also some cookie-dough. Good.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: AUG 5, 2012
Re-rate, draught at Lido, Riga. Hazy amber, small head. Sweet and doughy. Medium bodied with soft mouthfeel. Bread and some syrup. Light malt bitterness.
Draught at Lido, Tallinn, Estonia. Cloudy deep golden, creamy head. Mild citric nose. Sweetish with light-medium body and fairly clean mouthfeel. Some caramel. A little sourish and lacking in depth. Resiny bitterness. Off shape, if it hadn’t been poured at one of Lido’s own establishments I wouldn’t have rated it ,now it’s been in their control all the way to my glass. (4/5/4/2/8=2.3)
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