Rinkuškiai Aiko Pale

Brewed by Rinkuškiai
Style: Pale Lager
Biržu raj., Lithuania

Very pale yellow color with a non existent head. Decent nose with a slight malty character. The taste is deceptive. It starts out a little sweet, but gives way to a bitterness that seems out of place.

From a bottle at Brickskeller, the place of all places. What do you write about a lagery visual? Very yellow, pale, still, hardly any head, just a bubbly flourish. Smooth, candied malt, virtually no bitterness. Almost completely flavorless, just a yellow malt drink. Very well made blandness. (#2777, 4/6/2007)

Not destined to become one of my favorite Rinkuškiai brews. It pours a dirty-yet-bright yellow body with a big bubbly head that reduces to a scummy film pretty rapidly. It’s got an aroma of raw grains with some corn syrup. The flavor’s not too bad. The corn syrup fades to the background while sweet malt pushes forward. No real signs of hops. Sugary finish. Not horribly unpleasant, but nothing I’d like to try again. I’ll stick with the Žaibo.

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Bottle at the Brickskeller in DC. Nothing at all to call home about, but I didn’t think this beer was that bad compared to so many cheap import lagers that are out there.

Yellow straw color with a smaller, light off-white head. Light resin and grain scents covered with sugar and mild syrup. Chalky grain and light birch-wood flavors. The woody flavors intensify throughout, until the finish is a brown sugar syrup coated piece of balsa. Simple sugars to the point of being sickening. Sorry just not much of a brew.

I got a bottle of this in Kansas City. Pale gold with a large white head. Teh aroma is sweet potatoes with some light spice of ginger. The taste has some light potatoes with some celery and a hint of green bell peppers. The finish is slightly metallic. Just another boring light lager.

Pale fizzy yellow body, no head, no nose, nothing much at all to it really, tastes sort of domestic and watery with some bland malts. Pretty lame yet somehow exotic

Pour is a bright golden with a small white head. Aroma is bland to noghitng. Flavor is watery and bland also. Nothing here move along.