Laitilan Harald Viikinkien voimaolut

Brewed by Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Laitila, Finland

Bottled at Harald, Jyväskylä. Mild aroma with honeyish malt, cooked corn and hint of herbal hops. Malty and honeyish flavor with corn, metal, herbal hops and low to medium bitterness. Fair amount of body for 4.7 ABV beer. OK beer with food.

From the Bottle at Chris O’s 06/08/2009 Fruity hop aroma. Clear golden coloured very sweet on the palate and malty with a crisp and slightly dry finish.

Standard lager colored with lively carbonation, vanishing white head. Aroma dominates this sweet aroma with bread in it also. Thin to medium bodied, carbonated palate. Flavor is pretty much similar with lots of honey and some bready-grainy tone, aftertaste has some thin herbal flowers in it. Well, easy to drink, but nothing special.

A bottle from Eat&Joy Maatilatori 0.5L. Honey in the nose. Pale head fast diddappearing. Not very sweet. Slightly sour mild malty and honeyish taste. Slight bitterness at end. Pale golden yellow colour.

Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Blonde. Grainy, bready aroma. Grainy sweet flavor, just a touch medecinal. Dust. Low on hopbitterness. Lemon notes. Short aftertaste.

Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with small white head. Aroma is lots of honey, some mild grains as well as some plasticpipe and metallic notes as well. Flavour is mainly malts, grains, some mild earth and also some herbal touches. This will probably be the only bottle I drink of this product. Far from interesting.

500 ml bottle. Finland. Clear golden colour with small white head. Very strong honey aroma. Flavour is not so honey driven (fortunately). Weak dryish hops and some minty notes. Too much honey for my taste.

(Bottled, sampled Jun 12, 2009) Very pale golden with a medium, fading head. Aroma of honey, metal, and some pale malt - but no hops. Strongly honeyish, slightly sweet flavor with some acidity, mild maltiness and almost without bitterness. Almost medium body with very little carbonation. Somewhat artificial overall, with not much more than honey aroma added to a basic lager. Might go down with food, if you’re not a beer geek.