Svyturys Ekstra

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

It pours out an unimpressive straw color, but it intrigues with a honey-malt aroma. A little thin on the palate, but with a solid flavor - pleasantly grainy with a honey-malt undertone and a mellow aftertaste. This would probably go nicely with chicken or a sandwich, and it is fine on its own.

Aug, 2007500ml bottle from BeersOfEurope. Corn yellow appearance with very white head. Adjunct/cereal aroma and flavour. A strange petrol sweetness followed by a blurry hop pellet bitterness. There is some character in this brew, as there sometimes is in a number of Eastern Europe beers. This tastes like a high alcohol brew that’s been watered down. The mouthfeel is thick and stodgy. On their website they make the absurd claim that this "belongs to “Dortmunder/European Export” class". If there was a RateBeer style group for Eastern European Pale Lager then that is where it belongs. This is not very nice. [1.1]
Feb, 2008 500ml bottle from my local East European shop. This is a slobby sticky beer. It tastes nasty and cheap. Bready, sweaty uncooked dough, globular, greasy, yet with acidic notes from the carbonation. I guess the Lithuanian drinkers are used to all this nastiness and take it all as part of the character. One thing this doesn’t lack is interest. Some fruit, some garbage, some rotting compost, decaying apples that explode in a mush at the touch. Yugh! Yet there are moments when the sweetness and the bizarre range of flavours head off in an interesting direction and this tastes almost good. But that doesn’t last long. Brrrrh. This is terrible stuff. [0.7]

A very light lager. Clean, light. Might as well be water. No scent, no taste. At least it’s drinkable.

[466-20070728] Sample @ LCBO-Summerhill. Grassy malt aroma, a little sweet. Clear, pale yellow body with a quick bubbly white head. Tastes like toasted cereal gone mouldy. Light-medium body. Not repeatable.

500ml Bottle at the Portland Hotel, Chesterfield (JDW) 19/05/2007 Malt and hop aromas. Some carbonation. Clear golden coloured and very hoppy with a crisp and slightly dry full malt finish.

aroma is well........lagerish, corny, malty, typical helles aroma. Falvour is much of the same. nothing special. a good summer quencher.

Mild spicy aroma.Clear pale golden colour with thick white head. Sweet tasting with malty overtones - not cloying though. Light bodied and did I mention sweet. A good beer if having a few.

50 cl bottle. Golden color. Ok white head. Sweet malt, hops. Dry finish. Not great, but very drinkable.