Jimbo's Beerblog

Uusi-v#¤%&n-kaupunki! Ei Uusi-Seelanti... Hello beerlovers. Take a big sip of your lovely beer in hand (go away, if you have none) and take an open mind as this modern mastermind of beer reviewing, Jimbo, takes the video stage and says almost nothing about the beer in glass, but you get the feeling (or not). So, enjoy responsibly . *** OK

Yeah! Or d’oh! It depends. Light lager with foamy head, carbon dioxided malty stuff it seems, easy drinking shit, you know. Scent has not too much metallic sense, that’s good! I hope I never have to taste another uber metallic industrial crap – this is not that bad in that aspect. Maybe this has more rock than metal :D Taste has some flavor from hops, I guess. I have no comparison to basic Koff lager, damn, it would have been nice to compare those two. Malts provide sweetness and something soft tingles your tongue. At the same time it is still sharp with its high carbon dioxide attack. Drinkable, sure, as this is quality industrial product and I have had many worse lagers in my long career of lager drinking (before opening my eyes to the world of beer). Nowadays I’m not that much of a lager drinker anymore but If I was, I would perhaps even choose this over many others (like I did today in my little neighborhood grocery store just to have something from the midst of kof...

I have been thinking and writing about my Way recently. This beer translates in English as “a way of a monk”. Nice beer!  This reminds me of some great English Ales – mainly my favorites, Fuller’s beers like their two recent Vintage Ales. Nice, sweet and toffeelike, but very nicely bitter beer. Me likes a lot!  This is my first Rekolan Panimo beer (Finnish, very small craft brewery) and definitely not the last if this is their standard of brewing.  Fresh, domestic, nice and very good craftbeer. Excellent.  Only thing that makes me say this is “just” OK (as OK beers in my scale range from GOOD to VERY GOOD) is that it is more like the last Vintage Ale, a bit too sweet even for my taste. *** OK, nearly Great

I usually hate berry flavored beers – mainly krieks. But this is some Finnish organic cranberry lager. Odd but true. But actually cranberry is one of the few berries I actually adore, though I was a bit worried about this…but no worries, my dear readers – this really is a decent lager. Actually I think cranberry just maybe refreshes the otherwise maybe even dull lager taste as this is nothing special in its core. This is a nice experiment, and although I’m not sure, that I will buy this again, I’m pretty sure, I would gladly drink this before any industrial mass piss lager, so I raise my hat for the nice effort and easy drinking, nice flavored lager. *** OK

rye bread from Finland Smoked rye porter from Finnish capital. IMO best Finnish craftbrewery, so every new Stadin beer has expectations. This is black and smoky. I don’t like smoky beers in general. Well, certain German stuff gets my approval, but others…not my favorites, quite the opposite. So, as the scent is smoky, this has to be very good tasting to even compete for example Stadin American Pale Ale which is my current number one beer, by a mile. Mouthfeel is very thick. Tickling stuff, carbondioxide. And VERY smoky. Maybe the used rye also tastes, giving some rough edge to the mouthfeel that was quite smooth first but even after one sip of this nectar makes my mouth so full of flavors, mainly that smoke though. Don’t get me wrong, this is very good smoke beer, if you like those. But as I’m not a fan of smoke (in any form), it lowers my judgment value. ** Drinkable for me, but quite OK otherwise, and definitely good, if you like smoked beers

Easy Drinkable domestic grocery sold stout. Perhaps best for the “less educated” beer drinkers that need change to their piss lager drinking. One  slightly boring video review . *** OK, just

Wuhuu, Goldings East Kent hops, here we go! Part of the new BrewDog IPA Is Dead 2013 –series (should I read more BrewDog stories, as I don’t understand, how "IPA is Dead", or ever could be, because it’s fucking great – as are porter, stout, imperial stout, barley wine, golden ale and such - maybe they drowned their IPA in hop overdose and thats why it "died" :D). First some Hardcore IPA backbone, then just loads of ONE hop. Aroma is funny. I can’t describe it better. It’s nuts. I know there is that one very distinct aroma there, but I can’t get to my mind, what the fuck it is. It’s sweet, full of flowers and maybe some berries. Just summer, all the way. Nice. Taste bites like BrewDog’s usually do. Dry hoppy tickling on the tongue. Then the Goldings speciality – I suppose. Toffeelike sweet, but still not too sweet, just nice and good. Me likes a lot! This is my favorite of these four specimens of Single Hop experiment. It’s funny that I sometimes com...

Prototype-phase pics of the three - Cocoa Psycho won the vote! Ok, I screwed up. I had 3 bottles of this lovely beer and I thought I had already reviewed it. But fuck no, I forgot and just enjoyed this majestic “Russian Imperial Stout” in three d ifferent occasions . So, this is based on my memory, which might be a little messed up :)  Let me tell you: Here is a gem for a beer! I could not have believed that there could be a coffee and chocolate spiced imperial stout that is so good, balanced, smooth, lovely, tasty, good, easy drinking and magnificent at the same time. Spiced beers are so many times too spiced up that they sometimes even ruin the basic malty and hoppy taste of beer. Also many imperial stouts seem to be too burned for my taste buds. This has not too much burned taste, just smoothness! Color is black, obviously, and head looks magnificently dark. Scent is imperial-stoutlike J Taste is so great, smooth and nice, even too good in a way, that I forgo...

Well, There was Dana, there was Waimea, there was Goldings (review to follow). And there is El Dorado, a mystical golden city. And an American hop. This is American all right.  Very good, but Goldings rules ok, like punk rules ok and American punks are only a fabrication compared to British counterparts. And I’m not anti-American, I love American hops and beers and lots of their music and their other pop culture too, mainly cinema. Road to El Dorado via Scottish beer is nice and easy. *** OK

By cogocogo Wow, this “Scotch Ale” is really interesting. I would say this is some imperial stoutlike shit, but no, this has 10 different types of malt and Scottish heather honey in it! Sick and sweet, BrewDoggy style :) Specs: 7,4% alc vol. Malts: Munich, Crystal, Chocolate, Brown and Dark Chocolate Malt. Hops: Saaz and First Gold. And some honey.  Yeah. Nice beer. Like an evening tea. *** OK, but definitely even **** Great, if you appreciate the BrewDoggy-style