Savas Stiprusis

Brewed by Ragutis (Olvi)
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Kaunas, Lithuania

Serve in Lager glass

Bottled in Vilnius. Clear golden, rich airy head.. Sugar and alcohol upfront. Sweet and fruity, medium bodied, fairly soft mouthfeel. Like breadwith strawberry alcohol added. Low bitterness.

Bottle. Yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet cereal, and caramel. Flavour is sweet caramel malt, cereal and a hint of hops and alcohol.

Clear yellow, smmall white head faint sweet corny aroa Flavor is sweet boozy, corn, alty sweetness.

Botella from Vilnius. Bice golden colour. Sweet alco caramel grainy aroma... and alcohol. Ok mouthfeel. Sweet cramael alco toasty malty grainy flavour. Sweet alco caramel malty grainy flavour... light herb.

Bottle. Clear yellow body with a medium white head. The aroma is sweet cereal, caramel and light fruit. Very sweet malty flavour with cereal and warming alcohol. Ends up caramel like.

500ml bottle (Maxima, Vilnius)
Mid orange, brief scummy head. Slightly alcoholic and even more slightly caramelly aroma. OK carbonation, sweet palate. Pretty alcoholic in the mouth - some sweet spiciness, and then some pure grain spirit heads up your nose! Swallowing simply gives those vapours a chance to circulate up through your passages again, so best to just glug this whole pint in one swallow. Finish has quite a biting bitter kick. Almost like hops, too. A touch paper, but not leaving anything too horrific in the mouth. Gets you there, no doubt, particularly if you follow my earlier advice... Discovery - as it warms, the aroma gets more perfumey, the body more malty, and the palate a touch softer - so don’t drink too cold, it’s too spiky that way. Bumped it up a couple of decimals because of that.

Bottle, 8.0%. Slightly rough hop aroma. Clear dark golden colour. Small stable white head. The flavour is a little sweet, some pepper. Hint of caramel in the finish, not much aftertaste. If you like European strong lager, this is OK.