Rinkuškiai Žaibo

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

Hazy golden yellow with medium quickly diminishing head. Sweet malt and candy aroma. Candy sweet malt taste that is overpowered by the alcohol. Medium bodied and a little too sweet and syrupy, definitely not balanced. If the alcohol weren’t so overpowering it wouldn’t be that bad.

Pour: An amber color with a 2 finger head. Nose: Wheat, sweet malt, and yeast. Taste: Slightly bitter with a sweet malty yeasty, with a hint of hops. Body: Medium Finish: Slightly bitter finish.

500ml bottle. I’ve had this one in the refrigerator for weeks, dreading it. The color is cloudy orange. The aroma wasn’t so bad. The taste is a tad overly sweet, almost a little fruity flavor, and the alcohol’s presence hides right behind it.. Not quite a drain pour, but always threatening. Better than US Macro Malt Liquor and some of the worst of the worst Russian/Ukranian trash out there. Almost like a bad Belgian beer...so not that bad.

Pours a lively golden color with a foamy white head. Sweet and fruity aroma, most natable is apple. Sweet honey flavor and a slightly bitter alcohol finish. Not bad at all, highly drinkable for the alcohol content.

Pours gold with a white head. Smells of apples, honey, some crisp malt. Tastes moderately dry with some fruity esters thrown in. Better than their other offerings I’ve had.

Pours clear yellow with a quickly diminishing white head. Nose is metallic wheat. Flavor of slightly rotten malt, rotten fruit, old hops. Very strong alcohol notes. Metallic finish. Oh god dreadful... I could not finish this bottle.

Slightly hazy and yellow-orange; head fizzled away quickly. Weighty texture; mild carbonation; a bit sticky, with a somewhat cloying sweetness (honey). Flavor was bursting with apple and pear. Faint bubble gum aroma. Fruity alcohol was surprisingly smooth. Just a pinch of herbs/flowers in the finish. Otherwise, not a lot going on in this beer. No major off-flavors, though, making it tolerable/drinkable.

500 ml bottle purchased at Spirits RB. My bottle lists the alcohol at 9.0%, really they put the .0 on the bottle and not just 9%. Pours a clear bubbly reddish orange with a small white bubbly head that quickly disipates. Fruity aroma of rotting bananas and some tropical fruit, perhaps a touch of bread. Medium palate with large bubbly carbonation and a slight biting after taste with some noticable alcohol warming. Sweet flavor of bananas and grain. Drinkable stuff so if your in Birzu raj Lithuania and need to get a buzz on just knock back four or five of these bad boys.