Sinebrychoff Jouluolut III

Brewed by Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg)
Style: Vienna
Kerava, Finland

Bottled. A brown beer with a light tan head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, metal, and caramel, leading to a dry bitter finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of oh6gdx. Pours a clear, orangey brown with an off-white head. Sweetish aroma of roasted malt and caramel. Medium-bodied with sweetish, roasted malt accents. Very subdued bitterness. 030608

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden brown with a lacing white head. Vague caramel malt aroma. Flavour is mild breadish and mild sweet. Ends vaguely malt flavoured.

Bottled. Dark murky rubyish brown colour, huge fluffy white head. Aroma is standard lager, a big dissappointment for a Xmas brew...Flavour is caramelmalts and big hoppyness. Some metallic and grassy hints also... Not very christmassy...

Bottled (BB 04/2005)
Copper brown with good foamy and lacey head. Malty, metallic aroma. Malty, harsh, Koff III with hints of toffee. Oily, malty and harsh aftertaste.

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Brown colour. Light malty slightly caramelic flavor. Very light bitter short finsh. Watery palate. Too malty and too week.

(Bottled, 2006 version) Clear, dark, reddish amber color with a quite large, foamy and lacy head. Slightly sweet, berryish aroma of red currants and toffeish malt (slightly similar to recent Mallaskoski brews). Some mild, buttery maltiness, too. Sweetish berry flavor with medium, stuffy bitterness, and a dry finish. Light to medium-bodied, slightly sweet and quite carbonated palate with slight acidity. Sweet and thin "xmas" brew. Wonder what’s with the berries this year... (Bottled, 2005 version, was 4-4-5-3-9=2.5) Clear, dark nut brown color with a medium, tight and tanned, lacy head. The aroma is initially quite sweet with lots of toffee, but it quickly fades into mild, somewhat metallic and roasty bitterness. Quite bitter, toffeeish, roasted-malty flavor with a sweet toffee finish. Light to medium-bodied, a bit foamy-carbonated and sticky palate. Clearly more full, toffeeish and balanced than the previous year’s version. Not bad, but still a bit harshly sweet-caramely. (Bottled, 2004 version, was 2-3-3-2-7=1.7) Quite nice, clear darkish amber color with a medium, creamy and lacy head. Very, very mild, aroma - can’t even tell what it’s like. Metallic, slightly roasted, thin flavor with a harshly bitter finish. Moderately bitter, dry dinish. Light-bodied, quite watery, medium-carbonated palate. A reasonably good-looking, but odorless and pretty tasteless, watery and cheap "christmas" brew.

Bottle. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are malt, caramel and hops.