Olvi Sandels IV A

(33 cl bottle brought home from Åland by a friend)
On August 3, 2008
Clear golden color, white head. Canend vegetables, malty sweet scent. Sweet, sugary, slight bitter taste. Thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.

this is on top of the pyramide of pale lagers in finland for me. smoother and tastier.

330ml Bottle- Dark golden/amber in colour. Lightly hoppy aroma with pear,malt and a hint of honey. Despoite this, it seems a bit sterile. Mildly sweet and malty taste with a bit of grain and mild hops. A bit more flavour than your usual lager but nothing special.

330ml bottle (alko)
Orange, brief head. Slightly sweet (honey?) malty and hoppy aroma - however, those are heading towards plastic and metallic respectively. Slightly fizzy on the palate. Decent sweet malty body - almost a breadiness, complete with a burnt crust - for a lager, but not much to really grasp at and the hops are a bit astringent, so don’t savour this in the mouth too long. (One of my drinking habits is to leave the beer in the mouth quite a long time.) Finish lasts for a short while - a dodgy kind of hoppy bitterness, and some trailing simple malts too. No superstar, but no dud either. I could imagine chucking back several of these in the sauna.

330cl bottle from Alko, Helsinki. Amber with a trace of white head; grany aroma; taste is mainly grainy with some syrupy sweetness; cardboard finish. Not much to offer over the standard supermarket version.