Jimbo's Beerblog

Yet another "christmas beer", but bare with me - this is THE last one, at least this year :D Well, the bottle is fun looking, beer not that much. Head goes away soon and the taste, well, it's kinda ok. Aromas are at minimum, when smelled, but taste is all right. Basic English bitterness comes through, maybe some not-so-good metallic shit too, but still, this is better than average shit, definitely. I would drink this again, for sure, so this is easily *** beer. But, thank goodness, christmas and Yule are now finally sorted out and let's set out eyes to future. Next year is knocking at the door, but I have no idea, what I would drink next. Maybe the last bottle in my cellar (before the maybe-non-alcoholic January)? *** OK

Whew, Brewdof, easy on that spice jar! There is a distinctive Brewdog-vibe going on, but the fucking christmas-spices, shit. Without those spices this would be ok, but maybe not so anti-christmas then, would it :D ** Drinkable

Well, I'm not done yet with that smoky shit (read earlier Urbock-story), but now we come back to Finland. This is a beer of "pee soup brewery", that makes soft drinks and occasionally also some ok beers. This seems promising, cause it has my favorite grain in it: rye. But, it is also alarming to have that "smoke" in it - though I liked the actual smoke beer, the-earlier-reviewed-German , it was quite fine actually. Copper brown beer looks nice and has a quite nice head, at least at first. Aroma is not at all smoky compared to Urbocks's real shit. This is just aromatized stuff. Taste really surprises me. It is very good at first, but I'm sorry to say, that the end-taste and aftertaste are not that great. There is nice hoppiness and some smoky bitterness in the mouth, when tasted, and the aftertaste is some odd mixture of it all. This is not spicy, not at all. This is quite easy-drinking, but still very interesting. They might still be into something with ...

I thougth I'd end this great beer year of mine with this special beer from Germany. I'm not a big fan, or not even a tiny fan of German beers, and I remember this being quite odd or not for me at least, when I last had this (must have been years ago)...This is a smoke beer and I don't necessarily like anything smoked. But I like beer - and beer enthusiasts usually like this beer. So, let's give it another chance - at least I have a better perspective now after this years magnificent journey around the beer world of different beer tastes. Aroma is unbelievably strong - as opposed to many other beers. There is so much smoke (and ham, I'm afraid, as I'm a veggie :D), that this reminds me of some times around the fire. Taste of the beer is actually quite mild compared to the aroma, but the aftertaste is smoky all right. Head goes away quite soon, which is a bit disappointing, but maybe this has that much aroma, that it doesn't matter. It has a nice feel in mouth...

This beer is so full of Christmas, that it has to be drank now or never. Yule has been quite nice for me, though I was a bit tired this morning, but the day and the celebrations went well. Jesus was not mentioned :D Pukki visited us and 3yo son said, that Pukki had "human eyes". Well, he wore a mask. And was not frightening. Kids got the most of the presents, I had fucking great black woolly socks. We ate well and did not drink a drop of alcohol as it's a principle in our family to give children a Yule without drunken people. So it's better to be not drinking at all and drunkards can do their dirty deeds now, when kids are asleep. But hey, I am writing a review of this Danish small Ørbæk bryggeris jingly stuff, so let's start the drinking! Smells a bit like spices, but tastes very spicy. This is christmassy, that's for sure. There is also wheat and rye used in this alongside oats, so this is kinda interesting, but the spicyness is a bit overwhelming for me. I...

Blonde Ale, I guess. Belgian. 6,7% alc vol and 0,33l bottle. No ingredients in Finnish or in English revealed, so this is not customed to out markets, just imported. Head quite non-existent. Aroma Belgique - guess it's yeast, again. Taste is also very much like Belgique-yeasty, but not that good than in Duvel, that comes to mind the most. Something's missing. This seems a bit too sweet and sharp (metallique?!) to be a gently drinkable but still great tasting beer. Is this lager? That might explain all the odd miss-outs. Kinda odd for a late-night beer, but might serve as a one-off beer in need of a one-off :D ** Drinkable

Yay, it's time for a battle of the giants in time of Winter Solstice known by christians as "Christmas", which we Finns call joulu, as in pagan Yule celebrations as it's an ancient festival of light, when winter has it's darkest hour and day begins to get longer again after couple of days' "solstice". Well, christians can celebrate their "Christ's mass", but I celebrate love and family. But first, let's get into fighting business. It's time for a duel: Tonight on ring are the two maybe best beers in the world. At least best of the Belgium beers - Chimay Blue and my all-time-favorite Duvel. Of course it's quite funny to first speak of pagan Yule and then have one beer, that is made by trappist monks (Chimay) and then have a counterpart in drink called "devil" (Duvel). But well, we are the generations moulded by christianity and it's effect in European culture, so let's just go with the flow. So, here you go,...

Bottle looks actually very nice, though I thought at first glimpse (in earlier visit to our Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko here in my hometown Kajaani), that this one looked particularly "Christmassy", though there is no mention of christ of any sort :) This is Jule Spektakel with crazy looking figure shouting besides the chr...Yule tree :) Pagans, we pagans, we are funny at chr...Yule time, I know ;D So, the bottle looks very fine, but how about the beer? It looks nice. Black with foamy head. My nose does not hate it either, though it rarely scents any aroma - it's my problem, hopefully not many others'. Taste is really wonderful, aromatic, rich. There is roastedness all right, but there is fruitiness too. There is bitterness, but there is something very refreshing too. Tastes go tingling and changing on top of the tongue and this feels like a splendid beer. Very, very good, indeed! Aftertaste is slightly burned, but very pleasant, very nice, very characteristic I thi...

Okay, of this, I don't wait anything. Other than shitty dark lager, I guess :) Head goes away soon, as expected. This does not smell like anything. Taste is like drinking cardboard and metally (or rusty) water with a hint of beer in it. Very light. Guess this is very "easy drinkable" too. Not for enthusiasts. Sorry to say, but this is bulk shit. Appearance: 2 Aroma: 1 Flavour: 2 Palate: 2 Overall: 3 = 10 points. ** Drinkable stuff (this goes down, so must be beer :D) PS. Rust is "ruoste" in Finnish, so here you go: CMX - Ruoste

Nøgne Ø #100 (batch 568) Appearance: 4 Bottle is very simple and easy to recognize as Nøgne Ø -product. Beer has amazing head that lasts for a long and careful tasting session. Beer is black. Aroma: 8 First very citruslike (when the head is at its fullest for about 5 minutes. Then slightly burned, porterlike. Flavour: 5 Taste is quite hard to explain...first its citruslike, like it was in the aroma, then some nice but with every sip more and more roasted malty taste and aftertaste. I guess its a little bit of oily at first, I think. My soon to be ready late night supper might go well with this... Palate: 3 First very fresh, then very heavily oily and stucky. Overall: 15 Dangerous beer with 10% alcohol by volume and goes very well with my quite spicy late supper that has halloum cheese in it. Me likes and raise hat for those Norwegian mad men, that brew these over the top beers. Punky stuff. 4+8+5+3+15 = 35 points First review of the same shit...

I will add a new rating scale system based on ratebeer.com's system (that also many other beer reviewing sites use). This will not take away my own scale of 1-5 stars, but to add more comparability, if some of you readers happen to visit other beer lovers' sites also :) Appearance 1-5 points Aroma 1-10 points (aka smell or scent) Flavour 1-10 points (aka taste) Palate 1-5 points (aka "feel of the beer in different parts of mouth and when swallowed") Overall 1-20 points (aka everything else, that comes to mind while drinking the beer including the "final feel" when beer is finished, is it worth drinking again, is it good for its value etc) So scale is from 5-50 points .

This special beer from Danish Mikkeller's comes with the special bottle (as pictured). This is a present all right, and as I'm my best beer friend also :) I had to give it to myself. I love you man! I know. This is a very dark roasted beer. Actually it tastes like someone burned some beer, rather than brewed, but wtf, it still comes in a nice bottle. My comparison for tonight is excellent Imperial India Pale Ale from Nøgne Ø , so this is quite poor compared to that, I'm sorry to say. This smells burned, and it tastes a hell of a lot more burned. There are some odd tastes coming through, that I cannot recall, but I can't say, that I would love this beer. Maybe I don't even like this. It's odd, and too burned for me too. There is one porter, that has a slight resemblance to this, which is actually the king of porters: Koff Porter. But, this lacks the final touch. This is just ok, if even that. Maybe some enthusiasts love this, but I have to be honest to this one ...

I don't know, why I talked about my "special lady" so much in this blog, but maybe it was easiest here as "Jimbo, the beer lover". Maybe I also was more merrier when having a couple of pints and thought of life and love as well as my beloved beer. I'm sorry to say, that we still ended up splitting our ways and now this "special lady" is my friend, of one kind. Very special woman, of course, but no more in a romantic way...so, was I sad or did I got wasted after this happened? Well, I have been very well, thank you, and last friday I also got wasted, but not for sadness, but for the celebration, instead. My dear friend had just his 25th birthday and I had to drink lots of shitty lager with him (of course I didn't call it "shitty" in his face :D) and also great Finnish Koff Porter and American Liberty Ale. Evening did go well, for me at least, but my celebrating friend got into a stupid quarrel over beers we had in one nice community of...

This American beer was recommended to me by a friend, who likes Imperial IPA. This is imperial all right :) Very tough shit, I might say, and maybe deservedly so: This is American "extreme beer" and punky in the same way as Scottish BrewDog's "Hardcore IPA". Very good beer, but quite hard on the aftertaste, if you are into refreshing yourself with the beer you are having :D Copper brown, very full tasting, not so much smelling (though my nose is so useless in these things, I might just say, if it's smelly or not - not smelly this time :D). Very hoppy - hops are used in vast amounts with this beer, I guess. 85 EBU, so there is this bitterness, which comes very dominant in the aftertaste. And of course very warming and relaxing feeling :) Good beer from across the Atlantic. This is so punky and full of attitude, that I have to give this an additional star - 'cause we punks love to drink punky drinks! **** Great

It has been a joyous journey so far, this beer reviewing and blogging journey of mine. I have reviewed - or at least had/drank/enjoyed 73 different beers so far as recorded in this blog. It has usually been nice and fun way of drinking the beer, that I enjoy with or without blogging. There have been some times during the blogs' short era (five months), that I had no interest in writing anything, so some beers like very odd "Puolukka Stout" by Sinebrychoff (Fin) or very pleasant and tasty "Winter Porter" from Stallhagen (Fin), have been left unreviewed at the time of drinking. But like I said in the introduction "Every beer deserves a story", so let this be a story of those unmentioned ones. Cheers! At the beginning of my blog era, I had a certain sense of beer varieties, but now, after only five months of my expedition throughout the beer world, I have been stunned with the tastes and scents and aromas of beers formerly unknown to me. A friend recommen...

It's been three weeks since my last new review ( I added tonight reviews made in last three weeks), because life has made me wonder in different areas than beer-blogging :) Mainly I have been socializing with a special woman, which is nice. I also have had a couple of good beers with her, but no new ones, so that my review-self would not have to start concentrating too much on beer :D Well, now I'm back - though still socializing and having a great relationship. Yesterday I had to drink a bunch of Suomi-lagers as well as better Czech ones on our pre-Yule party with my co-workers - and later with my special lady. We had supper, sauna and karaoke. A word of warning to you all karaokeists: Never go out choosing your favorite songs "cause they are so great" - if they are like this legendary one, I tried yesterday - and raped the song totally: Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams Tonight I review this one special beer I have waited to taste for a while. I thought I'll wait fo...

This is my first ever barley wine I think. It's an English traditional strong ale - barley wine I mean. This particular one is Dutch. Beer looks like a bit amberish dirt water and leaves very little head or basically none. Smell is like of some wine...odd sweet wine. Taste is quite odd at first. It has bitterness, sweetness, alcohol and some odd and non-describable spices. Not my cup of tea, for sure. This is not a "drinking beer"...I may have to wait for a while and have this with my late saturday supper...well, after waiting for a quarter of an hour and having the rest of this barley wine, I started to get used with the stuff, but still, it's too odd to be enjoyment for me and might work better for someone else... ** Drinkable

It's odd, that maybe a half a year to year ago I would have said: "This is a good dark beer". Now I just say: Another too sweet lager-stylish beer. I liked their Weizen-Bock hell of a lot more. This is a good dark lager and I have given good reviews to some Finnish counterparts, but now I gotta say, this is just drinkable, as this gives only good mouth taste at first with even some bitterness, but then comes the sweetness. It also lacks aroma like the worst lagers. I wouldn't buy this twice, though I have drank lots of worse beers in my life. ** Drinkable

I'm not a big friend of German beer, but maybe I have drank wrong beer before. This is very good indeed. Some unfiltered brown shit with enough wheat to make a sweet and very fruity drink. Very nice from the first to last sip. Das ist gut! Must try this again some time, because it ended before I even got to know all the aspects of the taste... *** OK **** Great for a German :)

This IPA Tripel is quite nice, citrus fruits and yeast come through, but that I guess very unique Belgian style - which of course Tripel's are - flowery hops, alcohol and very foamy head (it got up and over the glass...) is present here. I like this. There is also a nice bitterness in aftertaste, which I always endorse. Very good drink for the meal, I'm having, which is some chili and cheese. Still quite "easy" drink, so not enough memorability for the future use, but definitely I would drink this with smile on my face, if this was served in bars or by a friend :) *** OK

Very deep black pours in the glass. A bit stout or porter like smell welcomes the beer lover to this Danish treat, which is actually brewed in Belgium. Head is thick and brown. Very burned, but also otherwise aromatic taste flows in mouth perfectly. This reminds me of some great porter, maybe Fuller's London Porter comes to mind a bit. There are definitely much roasted coffee and stuff, which bubbles under. Wish I could tell you about those sensations ;) This is very high on alcohol, 10.9% vol alc, but it doesn't show at all. You suddenly feel that relaxing warmth in your chest, while you tackle the aftertaste. This is a very, very good beer, you should not disregard, though it's fucking expensive and is a seasonal product. Never mind that - get this! **** Great

Malmgård's brew this here in Finland. Their E.S.B. is maybe the best ale there is. But this is something else. There is juniper and rye used here, so this could be very nice. This seems to be like dark lager when poured to glass as head disappears fast. It does not smell anything - also very lagerish effect. There is 7,3% vol alcohol, so this is no children's drink, but still, where is the flavor? Where are the smells? Where are the tastes? Maybe I'm just drunk and my nostrils have gone shut. I don't know, this ought to be a good beer and maybe I need another bottle sometimes, because this one left me disappointed. After some drinking the beer got better - but the first contact was so lame, that I must say this is only drinkable stuff. ** Drinkable

Finnish small brewery has done it. This is very, very good bitter. Might be the best - Fuller's, shiver! Malmgård's brews it in Malmgård Finland, in some old villa's brewery. This is so good, I almost have no words... Very citruslike, fresh, but still bitter. Nam! I could drink this all night long! **** Great --- Edit & Second opinion after having this great beer more times: Most likely the best bottled and Alko sold Finnish beer! ***** Absolutely fabulous

Edit: Heh, I accidentally made a second review about this beer , but as this a "second opinion", it might as well count as a "new" review: Very shortly I just say: Fucking good beer! Buy this. Aromatic, dry, perfectly bitter, nice. Seems like some unfiltered dirtwater, but tastes like heaven :) **** Great

Really comes with the smells of Yule (I don't use the word "christmas" here purposely - I am a pagan and don't want to celebrate any religious nonsense). Very nice first bite. The spices of Yule come through nicely. This is better than glogg drink (spicy juice, which is served warm), though I like glogg also :) Very easy drinkable for an Nøgne Ø beer, by the way. Or is, if you like those Yule spices. Nice dark ale with a spicy twist. *** OK

Black ale. A Cat. Nice little bottle. 8,5% vol alc. Head promises nothing - just like Fuller's Ales. Aroma is nice. I tried to sniff it through, but fuck, I'm useless in these smelling tests. So I just say, it smelled nicely beerish :) First bite has all kinds of flavor. There is strong bitterness. Then some kind of odd sweetness comes to rule the aftertaste. Another sip and yes, there is a very strong taste when drank. I recall some of our finest (or shittiest) of home brews from many years back. It's homely then I guess? But this is actually maybe the anti-lager as it's taste is really strong at first and I presume that drinkers of bulk lager want their beer not to taste like this at first. So, props for that. I'm sorry I can't fill you with any details about the taste, because I'm so tacky mf. But yeah, this is strong, in many ways. Not so enjoyable, but a beer to be slowly appreciated (or hated). *** OK

That smell, what is it? There is a very distinctive smell of something :) in this special ale of Anchor's. It's head is absolutely fabulous. Smell too :) It might resemble the spice mixture Garam Masala! Taste is quite odd at first...did they really drop that Garam Masala shit here? I'm sorry to say, that besides first odd, not so good taste, there isn't anything else. Maybe this would go better with some food... ** Drinkable

Very warming, rich tasting ale. Quite bitter taste with coffee in it and very bitter aftertaste. It's like drinking a late night cup of coffee, but with a relaxing feeling in your chest :) Can't say anything bad about it: Very good ale from Fuller's and with ESB maybe the best English bitter. *** OK

I have tasted this couple times before, but wasnt't in a reviewing mood then. This is not best of the bitters, but extra hops give it certain loveliness :) So I like this beer. This is good, not shit, but nothing spectacular. I am still uncertain if this is actually just drinkable, but as I'm in a good mood tonight, I will say this is at least better than just two-star-basic-shit. Long live and love Lahti, and small brewery of Teerenpeli! *** OK

This tradiotional brewing method of using heated stones in the process must be one of the oddest in beer brewing. Or maybe not. Lambic's are made in quite extraordinary conditions. And maybe our sahti too. But this is also organic beer. Beer has a slightly amber looks, with head like basic lagers disappearing fast. I'm eating rye bread with cream cheese and salty fried eggs, and I just had my last Hardcore IPA from the scottish punks, so I might be a bad reviewer, if this doesn't kick me in the nuts. So let's taste: Very lagerlike. German pilsner. Lager. Or something. Doesn't kick. Just whines. ** Drinkable

Original Belgian Trappist with yeasty and powerful (at least with 9,5% alc vol) taste. At first it does not seem very aromatic or wonderful though...maybe Trappist lovers can get more out of this, but I find this actually a bit dull. There are flowery first bite which soon however twists in the mouth to be some kind of odd yeasty sweetness, then bitterness. This is maybe a Trappist characteristic, but otherwise it seems to me to be more of a bubbly wine with odd odoeurs. But hey, this is beer. And it's Belgian tradition to do these maybe a bit odd beers, which are the best for some, but maybe not me. Only exception might be Chimay Blue, which I adore. Still I have to say, that I respect this kind of craft beer, which doesn't let you easy, by no means. And, this grows as it is enjoyed, and that's always a good thing. This has potential and I'm not gonna refer to this as "just drinkable", because it's more of a beer for enjoying, not just drinking. And when ...

Yesterday at work it was a silent friday. A friend started to play The Godfather - Five Families online-strategy game ( https://www.kabam.com/the-godfather ) and I followed. The game is fucking highly addictive, even more than beer :) That came to mind as I'm having beer made in Chicago, though the forementioned game is placed in New York. Today I watched a very magnifique document about a Frenchman, who in the seventies made a secret invasion to now-ex-WTC-towers. He succeeded to tightrope walk between the towers in a 60m wire 450m above the earth for 45 mins. But New York aside, there is a beer from Chicago here! Golden ale pours to glass with great aromas flowing in the air. Head looks nice and foamy. Taste is great in firstbite. There are aromas I don't recall having in my recent beer tastings. I'm sorry I cannot say, what the actual tastes are, but this beer sure tastes wonderful. I think the most of the taste comes from the hops. There might be some Czech...

Slottskällans Red Ale Very dark brown ale with amber. Head disappeared very quickly. Smell is very nice though - always a great thing to notice some odoeur. Taste it not so bad either. There's some smoke in this shit. I really am not a friend of smoky beers, because I also smoke cigars - or are they called cigarillos because of the filters, don't know or care. But hey, ask yourself: Would you wanna drink tobacco? This has distinctive character and good bitterness, so this has much potential and I believe that some beer drinker would love this. I, however, am not so satisfied. Maybe I encounter this Swedish treat another time and have a better experience - because it happens also, and there are moments and for example certain food that goes well with a certain style of beer. This left me with nice bitter aftertaste, but the actual drinking was not so enjoyable, so its just drinkable this time. ** Drinkable

I made a video review, but hated myself mumbling, so took the link off :) My judgement was that if you gonna spend almost 7 euros on this 0,75 dark ale, you should know it is not very "hot" for a beer enthusiast, at least. It lacks character in every apartment and is only slightly different from many dark lagers. It is not bad, but it is only drinkable. ** Drinkable

Norwegian magic and Finnish SOB (SOA-fan): I'm sorry that this is the longest and shittiest of all my reviews. Somewhere there I also speak about the beer :) but also other things important in life. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiBhch-syg Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTD8lkvd6k *** OK for a drink **** Great for a long and lasting enjoyment :)

This grocery-sold beer comes in a christmassy bottle - very nice looking etiquette like in most of Laitila's beers. Beer looks fine stoutlike black when poured, but head goes away after a while and beer starts to look a bit like coke. Smells like nothing - maybe still too cold. Beer is very easy drinkable. I'm drinking this with my late supper that tastes so strong, I can't taste much about this beer. Well, malts are slightly burned, obviously, as this is dark lag...wait a minute, this is an ale. Very mild indeed. Starting to taste something as it gets warmer. There is a nice aftertaste in this, but very very easy drinking stuff. Only 4,1% alc vol, so quite light actually. For sauna beer, maybe? Final sip was the best. This if fine, but I'm a fucking critic. ** Drinkable

A friend brought me another souvenir from Bosnia - basic lager, but always a nice gesture to have a bottle from the trip, as he knows I love beer - and I guess he loves this particular beer :) Along with the bottle he gave me a sugar pack from "Tito"-bar with a great slogan: Smrt Fasizmu Sloboda Narodu Death to Fascism Freedom to the People With that slogan in mind, I drink this gift, souvenir and "drink of the People". Thank you my dear friend. This is a clear lager with virtually no head (this was too cold actually, as I forgot in my too cool fridge). Maybe some citruslike smell, if any (way too cool...), bubbly stuff with easy but enjoyable taste of something, grassy, fresh, summerlike. This is a drinking lager and not by any means to the moments to have some interesting beer moments - very easy on smell, taste and aftertaste - though not bad at all, either :) ** Drinkable PS. You should have brought me Premium with this woman :)

Nice unfiltered shit! Head is beautiful and foamy. Smell is citruslike, fresh, and distinctively hoppy. I'm not a master of tastes, so I just go fith the flow. First bite gives a thick, yeasty, bitterlike sensation - like eating bread. And I'm actually eating warm rye bread with melted cheese and spices on. So I'm both drinking and eating bread :) Comparing to one other IPA: Way massive beer than almost too delicate Fuller's India Pale Ale I had the other night. Actually I made a quick review about that too, but maybe I publish them in a one big bang (all the quickies). This is a warmer allright. Still tries to be delicate, I think :) At least when compared to some "extreme beers". There are American hops here, from Pacific Coast, so it is a combination of Nordic and American collaboration. Good craft from brewers in Grimstad, Norge. Still not my absolute favorite, yet. *** OK

Belgian amber. Well, the bottle is dull as shit. Only green etiquette I like, is that of Pilsner Urquell's, and even that is mainly white. Palm is a lager. It smells of ordinary bulk lager, though it seems a bit different with its amber colour. Head goes away very soon. This seems to be basic shit. So let's taste this! So, I've tasted this. It wasn't all that good (I'm a bit hard reviewer tonight I guess). And the fucking bottle (glass) is green also. Ok, there's already Heineken and Carslberg, so wtf. Palm...you Belgians should stick doing what you are best of: trappists and shit (not Stella and other bulk shit though ;D). I also adore, love Duvel. This could be the best beer in the world, if this was the last one of them. Now I'm gonna just drink this through and go to sleep. I was thinking about wasting this shit and not drink this through. But you know, I'm a fucking Homer after all. ** Drinkable

This is a weird one. It says in the bottle, that this a mixture of two ales. One has been aged in barrels for two years, other not. So, this is a mixture of youth and old. Head was nice, earlier, as to now when I actually start reviewing, the head is gone. Let's not get bothered about it, though - remember always, that the Finnish contribution to great beer brewing, sahti, is actually a beer without a head. Should have sahti, you know! Well, this British ale has two distinctive flaws, I'm afraid. It is served in a transparent (is that the right word...or "see-though"?) bottle, where beer is not gonna preserve long. (You all know Newcastle Brown Ale, that has the same dilemma, don't ya.) Then there's the first bite -problem. It sucks. It's too British for me. I'm sorry you all British Ale lovers out there, but what the fuck it's all about?! This could be very good beer, if it didn't have this British Ale first bite. I don't know, what's ...

There are many beers I have never tasted. There are also beer brewing countries, I have yet have no contact, whatsoever. Tonight it's time to visit Norway, our beloved neighbour (border between the North of Finland) and another Scandinavian country with viking heritage (I have adoration for some viking stuff, mainly Finnish viking metal like "Turisas"). I have never visited Norway, I don't know any Norwegian people (except of course some "celebrities" via tv, like some cross-country skiers and singers - both pop singers and black metal bands :D), I don't know if I even have ever used anything made in Norway. Until tonight. Here is double IPA from Norway. This is highly regarded among beer enthusiasts (at least Finnish ones, or so I have read), so I'm a bit shamed, that I have not tasted any of this Norwegian breweries' beers before. Nøgne Ø ( http://www.nogne-o.com/ ) is known of its quality beers. I visited their website earlier and was amazed, ...

50th blog entry, hoorah! Also the first double entry - duel, you might say. Two good Brew Dog Beers, and one better than another. Video review, hope you can enjoy, though I'm getting drunk... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkrQGIK0ZD0 **** Great / Trashy Blonde *** OK / Alpha Dog

Great Amber from BrewDog. Video review, again (sorry :D) -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V18gjxMePk **** Great PS. http://vimeo.com/24420865 -- Edit: Lady friend said that these is something very familiar in the smell and taste - and after a while she said: This is like warm black currant juice.

"Beer with a soul and a purpose". Brew Dog is a nice brewery. Scottish punk brewery. It is needed, it is wanted. Hardcore is of course the best of the lot, but let's start our tasting journey from this one...obviously a hat raising to '77 punk and punks. This is easy-drinking pils. So easy drinking, I forgot to write anything about the taste and stuff. Fuck it, it's punk you know. And this is beer - for punks. Nice basic stuff without any disturbing ingredients (and my mouth is filled with spicy foods aftertaste after all...) ** Drinkable or: *** OK, I guess ('cause this is not bad, at all) PS. Video from BrewDog

It's funny - or stupid - that man who calls himself "beer enthusiast", buys a beer from market, which he knows, is a seasonal product and maybe even already spoiled stuff. Well, it is Anchor, man! It's funny - or stupid - also to buy christmas beers and summer beer at the same time. Surely one of them is not fresh anymore. Beer is supposed to be drinked quite soon after its bottled. There are exceptions to the rule, of course (trappist etc), but most of the beers are not good after long storage time. And yet they are stored in shelves of stores in too hot and lighted spaces for months and months too long... Well. Anchor rules. Let's taste this shit: Color is very light, head is very nice -but goes away in couple of minutes. Flavors are quite flowery and the taste, well, is quite nice actually, but bulkish. This is 50% wheat beer you know, and I hate most wheat beers :) This has some bitterness in aftertaste, that's actually good (you don't taste piss in yo...

This is winter beer from small Finnish brewery. My shitty video review (I even forgot the word "grain" in the middle of making this, shit...maybe I should stick to poorly written English :D) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAyk7Ub4sTs ** Drinkable (maybe even OK)

We Finns love joulu. Its Christmas in English, you know. We know, that Santa Claus, or Joulupukki, is Finnish, lives in Korvatunturi. Watch Rare Exports (made in Finland) if you have suspicions about that. We like beer too, but most of us drink only bulk lager. Or: "I drink Karjala", "I drink Karhu", "I drink Olvi" and so on. Only Christmas time makes basic lager-folks go wild: "I drink Jouluolut". Though they just drink bulk dark lagers made by the same big breweries that make those bulk lagers mentioned earlier. And so do I, sometimes :) Very light tasting, soft, dark christmas lager. Easy drinkable, nice, but lacking flavors. Good drinking/sauna beer though, better than any basic bulk lager, definitely. *** OK

This German beer is so sweet, you could drink Coke instead of it. Edit: I deleted my drunk video review to spare your misery :D ** Drinkable

Oh, this great porter. Watch my third ever video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0ih86__V0 Sorry for the slightly too intoxicated and stupid review :) This is a very good beer, though. And comments are welcome - I forgot that I had couple of comments earlier, while making that drunken mumble. Its good to watch that shit when sober to notice your foolness and stupidity :D **** Great Edit: This is actually maybe the best English beer I have tasted...so it will have its "second opinion" some day...