Tervetes Nefiltretais

Brewed by Agrofirma Tervete
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Kronauce, Dobeles raj., Latvia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Two identical bottles at the same time, two different flavors although production date is the same. The only difference was that one bottle was kept at home for few weeks, other one was brought from store that day. 1. Aroma-one sided- malty, pours clear, crystal golden, bubbly - despite being unfiltered, with huge rocky foam, leaving big-spoty lacing, diminishing in nice yeast like layer on top. Taste is mild sweet with far away bitter at the end, yeast presence is minimal felt, at late stages some green apple like sourness. Palate - middle body, average carbonation, a bit oily texture. 2. Aroma is more hopped, some honey in flavor, sweet, bready more than malty. Pours cloudy yellow, not so intense foam, minimal lacing. Taste is more spicy, honey sweet tones, bitterness is more intense(noble hops). Palate mainly the same. So to me fact that same beer can taste different @ same overall conditions is very confusing.

Hazy golden with thin white head. Aroma.. mostly malts, bit grassy and grainy. Light notes of fruits. Sweet with quite long and medium bitter finish. Another "nothing special" beer, thou its quite decent and nicely refreshing.

Draught @ S.Brevinga Alus un viskija salons, Tirgonu iela 4, Riga, Latvia LV - 1050.

Clear medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, straw, pale malt, fruity, light hoppy, grass. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fresh, fruity, malty, hoppy, hay - grass. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120729]

Bottle @ Hotel, Liepaja, Latvia. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, grain, grass, light citrus. Flavour of malt, grain, sweet white bread, grass, light citrus notes. Medium body, soft carbonation. 250912

Bottle 500ml. (Thanks SaintMatty) A hazy golden colour with a small white head. An aroma of malt and citrus. The taste is light sweet.

500ml Bottle - Golden with moderate carbonation and a white head. Malty aroma. Malt, lemon and grain in the taste.

Bottle at a tasting in Uppsala, July 2012. Thanks SaintMatty. Hazy golden with a small white head. Not a lot of hops in this one. Malt, some toffee, bread also notes of earth. A bit special I must say. Drinkable but not too exciting.

Hazy orange-tinted gold, big soapy white head. Nose is caramel sweetness, grains, bread. Taste has a biscuity-sweet maltiness with caramel, more grain and a hoppy twang in the finish. Bitter aftertaste with bread in the background. Tingling carbonation, thin to medium body.

500ml bottle (?)
Looks good, almost as cloudy as a wheatbeer - cloudier than some cheap ones! Quite a bitty texture though, not smooth and homogenous like a hefe. Head small and settles to just a tiny spotty layer. Aroma quite bready, almost with a wheaty lightness, but perhaps some pulses bring it down too. Such a latvian taste, it must be the water and the local hops. A little bit of milkiness to the bready grains. Hops quite earthy and also tinglingly bitter. Perhaps some paperiness to the dry finish. Smooth in the palate, almost slick at times; such fullness in the unfiltered body. Gently crisp carbonation. Pretty OK lager generally, but a bit quirky. There’s something almost sour about the interaction of the wheat side of the grains and the hops, but it’s their only briefly in the retronasals.