Svyturys Ekstra

Brewed by Svyturys (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Klaipeda, Lithuania

Pours from the bottle a gorgeous pale gold colour with a perfect white head. Malt aroma with the alcohol also coming through. Good body and mouth feel - slight graininess helps. Crisp finish makes this possibly the ideal summer beer. Not the greatest beer by any stretch but, taken for what it is, there’s a lot to recommend it. Each to his/her own but I can’t understand the consistent low ratings for this way above average beer.

This is a fairly good pale lager, if that is what you like. That is not my favorite style, so I will try to be objective. It is a very light beer by European standards, but much fuller than Miller or Bud. It is not nearly as hoppy as the pilseners. This would make a great picnic beer.

No 237
Rated: 24,10.2007
Bottle greenish brown, 500 ml
Appearance: Head is foamy to frothy, quite big initially with the regular structure, than the head decreases slowly to a minimum but leaves fair lacing what is quite surprising. Body colour is bright, like golden, clear, reminding piss, well filtered, light, transparent, yelowish.
Aroma: Accidic, chalky, very chalky one, some hints of hops and seasam what is probably reasoned by rice content (rice is not felt though), generally aroma is very weak and nothing extraordinary, (some hints os piss additionallya)
Flavour: Flavour is very, very dry, really, that is almost a pilsener, totally no addition of sugar, a bit wattery, some hints of rice are present in the bitterness, grapefruit, seeds, very deep bitterness. I’ve never drunk such a bitter and dry beer. Chalky and bisquity, piss, accidic, dull, refreshing, a bit hoppy, water is of good quality, very soft and apropriate for a pilsener type of beer. Quite well balanced flavour between malted barley and fresh hoppyness at finish. Finish duration is average.
Palate: Body is light, texture is very dry, carbonation on palte is soft, ginish feel is chalky, dull, dry.

Appearance: Gold, little head. Aroma: Like a lager. Bit of fruit. Grainy. Taste: Hopsy. Hint of malt. Bitter aftertaste. Info: 500ml bottle, 11/2-2006, 72/300

quite sour, malty lager nose, corny. Straw yellow, clear. steady white small head. Very corny watery flavours, i guess the rice...(why?) not much of a presence, grassy. baltic lager.

(Draught on 2008-06-20) Pale golden. Clear. Medium-sized white head. Slight hint of hops in very vague nose. Medium dry palate with some carbonation. Hint of malts and some fruitiness. Hops can be tasted.

500 ml bottle from LCBO, served cold in a Weizen glass. JN17/08.[br/][br/] App.: Clear bright golden with a nice white meringue. Aroma: Corn, cereal, grain, light grassy hops, metallic, very light apple juice. Palate: Medium body and carbonation. Flav.: More than the nose, nice light malts, again some cereal and grain, light grassy hops, some apple and pome fruit off-dry with some bitterness, fruity finish.[br/][br/] The flavour was a pleasant surprise – quite like a Pils to me, minus the Saaz hops.

500ml bottle from Tesco. Pale gold with a decent, fluffy white head. Aroma of sweet malt, herbs and a touch of grassy hops. Flavour was sweet, with some doughiness, a metallic edge and a light finish. An ok lager.