Svyturys Ekstra

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

Light gold with a fairly large and attractive head of white foam. Minimal aroma, not much to be spoken of. Taste is light and grainy, but clean with an attractive hop finish.

Pale, bright golden with a nice fuzzy blanket that formed good lacing. Aroma very pleasant bouquet of mostly noble hops with some sweet malt. The taste was a let down after such an inviting aroma: Stale hops and bland malt that was too sweet--not balanced enough with bittering. Taste ends with some graininess. Light to medium body with some minor astringency and medium to high carbonation.

The 3rd of the 10 LCBO slavic lagers to be tried. Possibly the best as this is a Dortmunder-Helles style and I’m partial to them. In the glass we see a pale straw, slight haze, rockey 2 finger frothy cap with fair retention and lace. Moderate carbonation. Nose is promising; sweet bready malts over a slight citrus note, in keeping with a helles. Good lager body, sturdy malt pronouncement, very well balanced with herbal hop presence which adds some bittering in the medium finish..the rice is barely detectable.....very nice put together little expoert helles....and a heck of a good find at the LCBO as I expected all the new dozen east block imports to be bland and characterless as the others I had tried

Bottle. Yellow colour with a medium white head. Malty hay barnyard aroma and taste. Medium body and a sweet finish.

An orange beer with a disappearing head. The aroma is of metal and is sour - it must be the rice used in it. The flavor is sweet with notes of metal.

Bottle: Poured a light yellow color beer with a medium head with standard retention for the style. Taste is quite crisp with some noticeable bitterness at the end. I’m not very knowledgeable on the style but would say that I enjoyed it more then some other eastern European lager out there.

Large white head from a vigorous pour. Light carbonation. Light malt aroma with some rice and a bit of hops. Leaves an unimpressive scum of lacing on the glass. Crystal clear pale gold in color. Light and crisp. Very little flavor whatsoever. I realize that dortmunders are generally weak but this is pushing it a bit. Slight bitterness. Finish is pretty clean with a decent hop bitterness. So so.

Bottle. Light to clear yellow color with a diminished white head. A musty malt and hay aroma with a somewhat sweet and corn flavor. A dry harsh corn malt finish.