Rinkuškiai Baro Tradicinis

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

Delicious honey aroma. Weak pour with no head and golden color. Complex flavor of roasted honey and strawberry, but not much hops. I probably overated the flavor, but it really tasted quiet nice. Yeast finish. Very good brew.

16.9 oz bottle-A golden body with a head that dissipated into a small ring and has an aroma of malt and corn. Taste of sweet followed by a corn taste and rubbing alcohol. Not bad I think I’ll dring this while its cold.

Golden/honey colored with faint carbonation, a pale haze and a short white head that settles to scummy islands. Grassy aroma with sharper, herbal notes. Flavor starts sweet and a bit cloying before moving to drier, grainier pale malts and finishing with a hit of bitters. Average.

<font size=-4>Pint bottle from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/illinois/elmhur Beverage World, Elmhurst, IL 60126</font>

Golden color,small white head again with nothing left behind.The aroma was malty a little grainy and a slight hint of caramel and lemon grass in the back ground.Between this and the last two from this country i’d have to say this is th best one of the trifecta,not saying it’s outstanding or anything,just better.Light malty taste in the beginning that quickly changes to a caramel lemony taste and finishes up with a light grainy taste and a bit of alcohol togo along with a faint appearance of hops.Over all it’s pretty smooth compared to the others and the alcohol manages to stay somewhat in check as well,making only brief appearances.Not bad but it could use some improvement.

16.9 oz bottle. Pours a rich clear gold, 1/4 inch ivory head. Some fine lacing. Surprisingly rich malt aromas with light hops. Rich caramel malt. Some faint noble hops. Hints of alcohol. Sweetish. Faint metallic aftertaste. This almost reminds me of a pale bock. It’s not quite there but it’s similiar. Mouth is sticky. This is better than expected, not bad at all.

Decent frothy head that faded quickly. Poured a tad darker than most U.S crap beers.Aroma of grains,hints of malt and had a sweetness to it but was a tad off.Also hints of flowertops.. Wasn’t bad but nothing good enough to make me buy it again. Just a standard Eastern Euro strong beer.

500 ml bottle from Royal Liquors on State Street, Rockford IL (Dec 2005). Served a bit above cellar temperature, from a 12 oz Michelob glass. Big foamy quick-dying head atop an extremely bubbly, clear golden body....fairly clean, sweet, corn-and-hay aroma, not unpleasant though rather flat....body is very sweet, doughy, bit syrupy in the texture though it does dry out a bit at the end and a hazy, undefined mineralic-herbal bitterness sets in just at the finish. I find this fairly drinkable, actually, probably the 2nd best of the 4 I’ve had from this brewer the last couple of nights. Alcohol is only lightly present at first, and the thickness is muted...but don’t let it get too warm.

A new offering at Ray’s in Kent. Pours light yellow with a medium head full of mismatched sized bubbles. Aroma is sweet, grassy, and some alcohol. Malty sweet taste in a grainy, slightly rought palate, very light dusting of hops and then a corn sugar sweet tacky ending along with some alcohol.