 SaintMatty (423), Tallinn, Estonia
Apr 11, 2008 500ml Bottle-Golden in colour with a white head. Malty, mildly alcoholic aroma with a bit of bitter lemon. Malty and moderately bitter taste with the alcohol element featuring again. Tastes stronger than it is.
FatPhil (2063), Espoo, Finland
Mar 21, 2008 500ml bottle (Stockmann, Tallinn)
Pale gold, persistent white head. Pleasantly grassy and also quite clean malty nose. Slightly thin palate, OK carbonation. Initial taste quite pleasant, light malty body and slightly dull hops. Upon swallowing, there’s a pleasant crisp gingery bite. Up to that point, it’s pretty OK. However, the hops are slightly acrid as they stay on the tongue, and a papery/grassy finish remains. However, there’s also a good bready taste, which leaves a weetabixy nutty finish. Different from the average Estonian light lager - much more like a lot of Latvian beers (probably as these guys contract brew a lot of the ’Latvian’ beers!).
estpiwo (204), Estonia
Dec 3, 2007 Plastic bottle. Grassy aroma. Specific unclean Viru flavor. Nothing interesting.
TBone (4924), Pori, Finland
Jul 28, 2007 Plastic bottle 1,2 ltr (BB 09/2007)
Golden color, decent white head. Strong grassy nose. Light, watery palate. Cut grass flavor, not much else. New plastic bottle model is used here and positive thing in this beer is that it lacks normal PET-bottle off-flavours. This is also much cleaner than many other previous Viru Õlu’s beers.
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