Rinkuškiai Žaibo

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

Serve in Lager glass

Alaus Darykla Brewery--Rinkuskiai Lietuviskas Alus--Zaibo Ypac Stiprus Alus Extra Stout Beer--2007 16.9 oz. Bottle. 9.00% ABV. 20 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) Malt Liquor. Thin mild lace head. Clear bright yellow gold color. Mild hop front. Smooth rich mild creamy sweet butterscotch caramel malty banana fruit hint body. Smooth easy mild hop EtOH malt spice end. Stank hint. Sampled 7/28/2007.

Pale yellow, thin foamy white head. Aroma of fruit, caramel and grain. Taste is pleasenty sweet and fruity. Some mild earhty bitterness in the finish. Not overly syrupy and boozy like a lot of this style. Medium light body, smooth carbonation.

Clear amber with rapidly disappearing white head. Aroma of alcohol and some spice. Very malty flavor, not well balanced. Mediocre.

Stout beer must mean more of.... well, who knows. This pours well enough, yellopw with a thin head. Aroma is an overly fruits cereal with grape juice notes. Flavor is thin and too sweet. Yeah, I should have spend the $3.00 on a 40oz of Baltika.

Not quite as pretty and a little thiner on the palate, but otherwise pretty much the same beer as their Zhiguly Grande. These are some really malty brews.

Dark yellow orange, a finger of creamy white, whipped foam. Simple aroma, spicy malts, alcohol. Taste is sweet, some apples, graininess and lots of alcohol.

The bottle poured slightly hazy orange with fluffy off-white head, fairly sustained. It smells boozy and spicy, kind of like mead? Tastes a little like cough syrup with a similar palate. Syrupy with no identifiable flavors. I think it was $1.98, but I still can’t say if it was worth it.

Amber body with a small, large bubbled, white head. Aroma of golden delicious apples and booze. Sickly sweet and boozy texture overwhelms the fruity notes that try to come through. Drainpour!