Rinkuškiai Žaibo

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

Pours a darker golden color with a white head. Aroma is of hay, floral hops, sweet malts, and some alcohol to back it up. Very light flavor of hay, yeast, floral hops, and just a little bit of alcohol on the finish. For being 9% it’s covered up pretty well. Not really that great of a beer.

Mmm. I haven’t had a nice Euro Strong Lager in a while. Thanks to Ando for sharing this one with me! Appearance: Pours a bright yellow straw-colored body with a fizzy white head. Smell: A nose full of sweet lager malts, corn/vegetable notes, and fusel alcohol. Particularly malt liquorish. Taste: Sweet and all out grainy with a light lemon flavor and bitterness in the dry, warming finish. Still particularly malt liquorish. Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied, but very warming. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: To be honest, I was thankful I only had half of a bottle to finish.

Rated 10/12/06: Lithuanian Ghetto Liquor very sweet with an alcohol kick. Sweet candy corn aroma. Nice pour strong carbonation real cool to watch. Sticky sugary mouthfeel. Candy flavor common among the beers I’ve had from this country, but there is nothing to back the sweet taste. Very one dimensional and definately a slammer.

Bottle pours dark golden with a short white head. Aromas of frosted flakes, alcohol and grain. Flavor is frosted flakes, bready notes, and some alcohol. Medium body and quite alcoholic on the palate. My biggest gripe about this one is that it actually used the word stout on the outside of the bottle.. Not too good..

Hard to find this with Ratebeer using UTF characters. Golden, with a thin head and an obvious light malt aroma. Wow, malt and grain alcohol is the flavor.

Clear, bright. golden/orange appearance with a medium size, white, fast fading head. Gentle, sweet malt aroma with faint spicyness. Sweet, toasted malt taste with a fairly harsh alcohol flavor accompanying it. Modestly hopped, medium bodied, affably carbonated mouthfeel, leading to a lingering, slightly metallic finish.

Pours hazy gold with white disappearing head. Aroma was just like toasted sesame seeds. Caramel/bread flavor. Sweet but not cloying. Little hop flavor. Alcohol is not strong. A strange but good beer. Still can"t get over the sesame seed aroma.

This #3.29 bottled brew marked lot L55640 from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of finely sized bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent typically carbonated orange colored body. The aroma was vinous and malt liquorish. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a mild vinous aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of strong vinous malt liquorishness. A decent one but not one that I would consider buying again. Definitely not a stout!