Jimbo's Beerblog

Yeah, its summertime so time for a Saison!  Swedish Slottskällans beer found from local alcohol monopoly store. Pours a bit hazy golden orange look. Smell is yeasty and fruity, nice and refreshing! Taste is nicely yeasty with floral and bitter citrusy finish, nice and refreshing!  Very easy drinkable 6,5% ABV summer brew, a yeasty fruit bomb, very good, me likes a lot! **** Great for a summery Saison

Well, I’m not a cocoa/chocolate drinker, so this was like having a chocolate with a hint of beer in it. My wife doesn’t usually drink beers or like them. She drinks cocoa/chocolate daily. She said that this was “surprisingly good” for a beer.  Sweet and chocolaty dessert beer, 5% ABV. I guess this was okay, but not particularly good, a bit thin and one-dimensionally cocoa-like, so I poured most of the bottle to my wife. Maybe this would have worked better as a stout if body was doubled and beer “imperialized”. ** Drinkable ***+ OK surprisingly good for a beer (wife / chocolate drinker review)

Nothing premium about this, just another 4,6% shitty lager from Italy, brewery owned by Heineken.   Bad. Metallic, watery mouthfeel. Fucking expensive (had this in local Rosso restaurant with good food) and totally poor shitty beer. * Bad

4,5% ABV slightly reddish ale, which feels a lot like pils. Pilsner, Muncher and Crystal malts meet Chinook, Cascade and Saaz hops and this feels a lot like a nice, a bit fruity and sweet pils-like ale. Very nice and drinkable. A bit flat though, but it doesn’t matter at all.  This was on tap in O'Learys Holiday Club Katinkulta. My honey moon trip was turning into a night and with some chips I had couple of these. Enjoyable ale from Stallhagen, basic but fitting to the occasion (and there was not a lot to choose from: Heineken and Karjala were other beers on tap). *** OK for a sessionable easy-drinkable ale

Easy going porter from Yorkshire, England. Traditional, easy-drinkable, quite a lot carbon-dioxide, nice and smooth burned malty porter, but not too burned, just enough to be nice and easy.  Not very “thick” or full-bodied mouthfeel, sessionable 5% ABV (ok, maybe I finally start to use this ABV over “alc vol”) porter for drinking with food for example. Nothing to complain, but not great either – still very much OK and Good. *** OK

Foggy dark brown dobbelbock-weizen from the “headquarters” of the greatest weizens, Schneider Weisse, Germany.  Pours with huge head. Yeast visible as expected. Banana and bubblegum in the smell. Sweet banana and bitterness in the taste and aftertaste.  I’m not a fan of wheat beer, as I have said many times in this blog. Still especially the bitter hoppiness works and raises this a lot above the worst weizens. Even the sweetness is not too bad, when the hops do their magic.  Its odd, how much wheat changes the beer, but of course – it is not barley, they are a different crops and the malts of these grains are the basis of beer. This has barley too, of course, but the effect of wheat on taste is so huge, that if you don’t like wheat beers, then they must be exceptional to raise from bad to even OK. This is definitely OK, maybe even great in its own genre. But I am not the right man to decide about that. Try it yourself and decide. For me this is definitely OK/good. Ba