Laitilan Harald Viikinkien voimaolut

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.

Bottled (Maatilatori, BB 12/2009). Yellow color, small mostly vanishing white head. Strong honey dominates the aroma. Light to medium-bodied, smooth mouthfeel. Flavor is suprisingly less sweet than the nose indicates. Lightly grassy hoppy flavor with odd ginseng-herbal and bee wax notes. A gimmick brew (like Laitilan Mämmi), which means that it is not needed to buy another bottle ...

500ml bottle (Eat&Joy, Helsinki)
Smells like a Latvian lager - some honey, coriander, and a touch of those typical Kukko hops. Pleasant carbonation. Sweetish lagery body, a touch thin and watery. Again the Kukko-style plant-matter in the taste. Rather simple, but drinkable.