Laitilan Kievari Tuomas

Brewed by Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas
Style: Mild Ale
Laitila, Finland

50cl bottle. Served a little too cold, got more out of it after I let the glass rest for 15 minutes. Some more points that way. Pours brown, dark reddish color, with a white head. Strange fish aroma, stays with me all the session. Flavor is caramel and little sweet and malty. Really enjoyed the taste, but the aroma was not to my liking.

(Draught) Served way too cold. Poured deep dark brown and clear with medium sized light brown head. Aroma was burnt and metallic. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Tasted of malts, burtness, bitterness, metallicessa and lightly hoppy. Malty aftertaste.

Dark red-brown colored with medium sized beige head. Roastiness dominates in this chocolaty-grainy aroma, some interesting exotic fruitiness also comes up, thin licorice here too. Thin to medium bodied, soft palated. Flavor is even more roasted with dark chocolate too, grains also here. Aftertaste dries with chocolate still.

Draught@Beer Hunters
My second rating for this, the first one was lost on the way ... somewhere. Dark copper ruby color, good creamy off-white head, some lace. Aroma of balsamico, maksalaatikko (liver casserole) and caramel. Mild caramel, some earth, dusty hops, overall sweetish. Harsh-sweetish malty finish. It is certainly close to English Mild ales, but not its best from keg. I had to find a bottle for rerate. (4/4/5/2/9 2.4)
Draught@Beer Hunters
Found my 1st rating: Dark brown color, small off-white head. A bit chocolaty, molasses, some grass and liver casserdole. Caramel, molasses, chocolate. Finish has some bitterness. Too much of decent Laitila’s house flavor in this. (6/4/6/2/11 2.9).

far worse than I expected. Watery and just bad combination of flavors this time. or did I have a bad beer day.

Bottle. Dark reddish brown colour with a medium-sized tan head. Roasted malt aroma with notes of chocolate. The flavous is roasted malt, slightly sweet with hints of liquorice. Better than I expected.

Dark reddy brown, healthy head. Lagery aroma, like a good dunkel. Hard to believe this is top fermented from the aroma. Roast is decent, a touch toasted bread. Crisp carbonation. Pretty burnt and liquoricy taste, some saccharine and caramel too. Refreshing, but perhaps a little thin. Not lacking in flavour. Finish is slightly dry burnt toast, and a few hints of metal. Fairly tasty quaffer, but nothing special.

Draught at Mallaskukko, Turku. Dark ruby brown, small off-white head. Nose has plenty roasted rye bread, chocolate malts, vanilla sugary sweetness. Flavor has some rusted metal, rye bread, dark sugar. Long and coarse burned finish, with some old berries and dust. Light bodied, strongly foaming tangy carbonation. In the end this comes off as pretty hollow and stodgy.