Rinkuškiai Žaibo

Brewed by Rinkuškiai
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Biržu raj., Lithuania

Serve in Lager glass

Bottle from 99. Hazy gold pour with a brief, short white head which leaves minimal lace. Nose is surprisingly fruity and spicy. Medium body and carbonation. Toast, meat, melon, cinnamon and umami. Finish is medium with lots of umami, blue cheese and some black pepper and chilis. Beware, the ABV is not at all apparent. I don’t know what category this beer belongs in, but this ale lover has a new favorite lager.

Half liter bottle pours out nearly clear copper – gold with thin off white head. The aroma offers up sickly sweet sugary malts, a sweet mead like quality and a cheap maple syrup covered apple and pear slices like sensation. The taste isn’t insanely sweet like I was expecting. I get sugary sweetness, a pleasing and trying to be dry yeastiness that cuts the sweetness and very slightly nutty like maltiness. To midway it picks up a firm note of peach slices buried under a mountain of bleached white cane sugar. OK, this does end up overly sweet and by half a pint it overcame me and I had to pour the rest down the drain and then hydrate to stave off the adjunct inducing headache that was heading my way.

Bottle: Golden yellow, light head, fuzzy. Light grain, minerals and sweet sharp yeast and corn in the nose. Big impact of grain and light bitterness. A little balanced actually and comes across a little more like an american malt liquor. Not bad in comparison.

Translucent copper with a thin white head, full body with medium carbonation.

Aroma: lots of caramel and toffee malt.

Taste: toffee malt and lots of alcohol esters. There is some odd flavor, likely due to either the grain bill or fermentation temp.

Simple but strong and decent.

(500ml bottle thanks to blutt59) clearish light amber, with a ring of off-white bubbles. Off to a good start given the appearance and description! (The best-known strongest stout beer! But it’s clear amber??) Nose of alcohol, caramel, and sweet cracker. Taste of alcohol, cracker, caramel, with a medium hot finish and sweet caramel. Not bad.

bottle thanks to blutt59. poured copper/amber with a ring of cream head. nose is caramel, faint hops, and faint dried fruits. decent on the palate, heavy malt flavor, dried fruits, caramel, and a sweet overtone.

Bottle, golden amber , the better twin of lobster lovers, fruity, molasses aromas, flavors of thick syrupy corn liquor

This was a very heavy and alcoholic beer. I didn’t really enjoy it that much