Sokol Svetlo Pivo

Brewed by Pivovarna Adam Ravbar
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Domžale, Slovenia

500ml swingtop bottle at Sokol resturant, Ljubljana, Slovenia This is considered their "house beer", and was very much looking forward to trying it. Hazy orange body, with small inpersisant ring of white foam. Aroma is bit towards the odd side; honey sweetness, clove, stewed apple, and overly ripe banana. Low carbonation, soapy texture, body is a bit on the lean side. More honeyish malt flavours on the body, odd peppery phenolics and clove. Overly ripe banana and pear esters linger on a drying finish. Certainly a unique beer, i’m somehow reminded of a homebrewed wheat beer of sorts; it’s part one thing, part another. I have a feeling it’s could inconsistant in quality/flavour but well worth a try.

500ml swingtop bottle at sokol in ljubljana. unfiltered hazed light gold colored body with a firm, fine-bubbled white head. first whiff is honey and sweet cream, some sweet green vegetables (sugar snap peas, green beans), some sweetened pine nut oil; strange but enjoyable. herbal flavor and creamy carbonation, light body. oily at times. unlike anything I’ve tasted, and certainly the best beer to be found in slovenia.

Bottled at Sokol, Ljubljana. Cloudy orange, absolutely no head. Fruity grassy nose. Mid-sweet with light-medium body and soft mouthfeel. Notes of lemon and butter reveals that it may not be in top shape. Good amounts of grassy spicy hops covers the off-flavours fairly well though. Marked late bitterness.

Bottle at Sokol. Hazy golden colour with a thin white head. Malty and floral hoppy aroma. Malty flavour with nice grassy and fruity hops, some bread and herbs. Medium to full-bodied. Very tasty brew.

courtesy of Toni Flükiger - hazy orange colour with no foam left; aroma of cider, old apple and candi sugar; medium-bodied and slightly acidic, moderate carbonation, short and quite dry acidic finish of apple and herbs - not sure if it is supposed to taste like this ...

0.5l bottle yesterday at the Sokol restaurant.
Poured a pretty, murky orange-golden honeyish body with a medium sized white head. The nose is definitely nice, grainy, very finely hoppy and honeyish. Oooh, I think I’ve hit a good batch. Damn tasty. Very fine chewy hops (Goldings?), a bit dusty, grainy and ends up a little in the rice cracker territory. Very light notes of carrots that usually ruin everything for me but this time they don’t. Fine body. Refreshing and definitely a treat while sitting on the patio in one of the prettiest parts of Ljubljana with friends, resting after a train ride.

01/08 0.5 l fliptop bottle at Sokol restaurant. Poured nice slightly murky golden body with medium sized head. Very nice, healthy hops aroma (herbal, lemon) and some honey malts. Promising, but flavor wasn’t nearly so good. Bitter, hop dominated flavor (herbs, grass, spicy) but very thin bodied. Dry, medium-long finish. Very pleasant, but so watery... Maybe this varies depending of the batch...

swing top bottle(500ml). -Cloudy golden coloured, small soapy white head that went away for two seconds, acidic butterscotch nose. Typical slovenian homebrew taste, malty, yeasty, honeyish hoppy with some dry herbal notes in the finish. Also quite watery. According to the label alcohol content is between 4 and 5%ABV.
Avaliable only in bottles even at Sokol Restaurant in Ljubljana.