Svyturys Ekstra

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

Pours light golden with a thin white head and sparkling carbonation. Aroma is nasty sweetish malts, DMS, and honey. Taste is sweet bready malts and a strange fruity butter finish....? Mouthfeel is sticky and deceivingly heavy, with medium carbonation. This does not taste like any Dortmunder I’ve had. Because, I taste corn, and rice (which they admit to). And to think that I got excited when I found out this was a Dortmunder. Overall, if I were to rate purely on style, I’d say this is a complete failure in my book. Why would I want my glass decorated with a thick scum of glaring whiteness? Does that sound even the least bit appealing? Why do beers from Eastern Europe always taste so sugary sweet? This beer did not sit well.

Golden colour beer. An ok medium head. Aroma i fine, hoppy. Flavor, not so good, corn??

Explosive carbonation on this bottle,Cloudy golden color,large white head that faded slowly then faded to a nice lace.Grainy aroma with some hints of fruit and also coming off as being a little sweet.The flavor is nothing special though a bit medicinal in the beginning lots of carbonation giving it a slight acidic feel on the pallate.The taste is kind of grainy with some hops coming on in the end and a mild bitterness.Not something i’d care to try again,in fact i think the Baltas was better,because this one is getting sickening fast.Just plain Yuck.

Ho-hum. Although I like Lithuanian beers quite a bit (truly!), this tasted somewhat metallic and yeasty in an odd way. Straw-colored and tasting sort of Eastern European-weird. I probably shouldn’t be surprised that I could taste a hint of alcohol in this brew. I’m sort of used to that from brews that are of lesser quality.

Bottle. Light straw coloured with a thick white head. Aroma has grain, some sweetness and not much else. Something a bit disturbing about the taste; sweet, some light bitterness, a bit sour in the finish, but it doesn’t feel good in the mouthfeel department. Those experts at the World Beer Cup, may not - gasp, horror - be experts at all!

This seems to be very variable from batch to batch. When I first tried it, it had a pronounced smoky flavour, which was hardly present a month later. Not much hopped, so the skoke aroma worked well in balancing the malt. But they can obviously do more to make a stable product.

I started a review of this one back in March and then forgot about it. It’s kind of easy to see why. Poured a very light yellow with a smallish white head that diminished entirely. Aromas were dry with some burnt grain and grass. Flavor was lightly bitter with some sourness late and a clean, crisp finish (I wrote down the word "snappy", but I don’t know what that means). Better than average, but only slightly.

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09.02.05 500ml bottle. Just hazed pale straw with thin but lasting head of odd little foamy clumps. I can hardly smell anything except for a distant vague aroma of sweet grains. Flavor is also hardly detectable except for a grassy metallic tang. If the goal was to produce a palyer in the world of flavorless beer, this one can compete with Michelob Ultra. I can’t believe how highly this beer is rated. Nonsense.