Rinkuškiai Baro Tradicinis

Brewed by Rinkuškiai
Style: European Strong Lager
Biržu raj., Lithuania

500 ml bottle bought in Boise at Tres Bonne Cuisine. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. The aroma is those typical Eastern European aspects; sweet honey and malts. A sweet and decent flavor of honey touched biscuits, light corn and other grains. Pretty nice.

Bottle from T’s in Tempe, AZ. Brassy gold color with a frothy off-white head. Slightly sweet pale malt aroma. Near medium body with near creamy carbonation. Flavor is pale malt not quite balanced by fruity hop. Maybe some floral. It’s a good drink for a pale lager. So 7% makes it strong? Ok. Interesting in the mouth. Non-standard.

This European Strong Lager pours an orange gold color from a 50oml bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head, with nice retention and decent lacing. The aroma is orange and sweet with a touch of grain. A medium bodied European Strong Lager. The malts are fruity and sweet, some orange and grain. The hops are mild and slightly spicy. Its pretty much your standard Euro Lager, except its not skunked. It is drinkable, but a little sweet for my tastes. Mouthfeel is round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet with a very slight touch of diacetyl.

Bottle. White, fizzy and medium sized head that mostly diminished, minimal amount of lacing, transparent, fast-rising carbonation, and a gold hue. The nose was malty and corn. Ditto for the flavor. Smooth mouthfeel and light-medium body. Nothing to get excited about with this beer as the taste of this beer simply did not impress me and it did not want me wanting more when I finished it.

Bottle. Soft gold pour. Tall white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and grassy with lighter bready aromas. Taste is malty and sweet with more grass, light corn syrup, and soft, faded hops. Body is bubbly with a light-medium overall feel. Finishes with more sweet, bready malts, light grass and some faded hoppiness. Tolerable, I guess.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop marked lot L54212poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a transparent typically carbonated orange colored body and thick foamy lacing. The mild diacetyl aroma was malty. The semi-thick mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of malt and hops. A decent one but not one that I would consider buying again.

I was somewhat disappointed with this one. It looked good in the glass and had a nice aroma but turned out to be too sweet for my taste. I think I’ll try some other Lithuanian beers before going back to this one.

Bottle: Gold color, light head and no lacing. Nose of light cocoa and toast, some coconut/nuttella notes too that emerge from the malted nose. The flavor is more straight forward with some sweet malt and alcohol and dry snappy hops. The finish is typical of malt liquors. Meh.