Jimbo's Beerblog

Finnish craft from Espoo. I guess these brewers are known for they hop-infused beers and this is no exception. I wasn't so fond of their collaboration beer "The Lizard" earlier, but this is way better. Sessionable, refreshing, with lots of tropical fruits and nice hoppiness all the way. Quite easy-drinkable IPA but with enough taste palette to rise from the masses as a very nice session IPA. ***1/2 Very tasty session IPA Picture from FatLizard

Strong, malty, British Ale. Classic.With nice hoppy palette to make it even better. Modern. Whoo, this is surely a strong one. Not alcoholic, but very malty, hoppy and full stuff. Very nice. Had this for a Yule present from a friend. Life is good and this is great. **** Great

For me a lmost non-drinkably hoppy, dry, grapefruit-juice-like IPA. And I like IPA, but if you put loads of hops into the beer, then you might as well put loads and loads of malts in it and make some triple-IPA of it. Maybe. I don't know, I'm not a hop head, though I prefer my beers with enough hoppiness – still, enough is enough. And I might add that this is in no way a bad beer, its just fucking hoppy. **+ Just drinkable for a non-hophead, so not for me

So, this is ”winter ale”, not a yule beer. But looks the same as them – dark brown malty stuff. Quite sweet. Maybe too sweet...but hops save this to be nice and easy-drinkable (which is not a bad thing for any beer imo :D). ***- quite ok

Well, another yule beer. Dark lager with nice easy-drinkability. Hallertau hops and nice maltiness. ***- quite ok

Another yule beer. This time too sweet for me. My bad. ** Drinkable

This is quite ok for a bulk, although I have recently drank more macro beer (Olvi and Sinebrychoff) than in years. This has quite nice malty character with some hoppiness also. Not bad for yule beer. ***- Quite ok for a yule beer

F resh and hoppy, fruits and flowers, very nice aftertaste - dry & aromatic strong hoppiness. Sonnisaari rules ok. **** Great Picture from Sonnisaari

House beer in Tampere's Oluthuone restaurant. Oatsy IPA aka OPA. Maybe mouthfeel is a bit more "oily" and easy-drinkable than in some "normal" hoppy IPAs but yeah, quite ok hoppy ale. ***- Quite OK

Roasted malts and Finnish sea-buckthorn berries with some apricot. Nice and malty taste with fruity feel. Could be nice with some spicy or salty food and cheese. Not the greatest porter, but definitely a good spiced up porter. ***- OK and has potential

I have been drinking this in bar situations a couple of times. Very good there, as there aren't many choices in those bars I have visited in my hometown. Easy-drinkable and a bit sweet and herbally hoppy saison. I also like the label, as it reminds me of forests and we Finns are a forest people after all. But yeah, not any greatness here, but very nice in a bar – and even girlfriend liked this over her preferred ”basic lager” which might tell something about this beers easy-drinkability. *** OK

I have been reading about NEIPA-style more than I have drank them. I have also read a lot praising reviews about Cool Head Brew. So maybe the hype was too much, but I was heavily disappointed. This is juicy beer with pineapple, grapefruit and other tropical fruits. And of course its hoppy. But this is not for me. Smells good, tastes even bad at times. Well, taste yourself and decide if you like juice-beers and maybe I have to taste more NEIPAs before judging the whole style as disappointing. ** Drinkable

Nice, spicy, tasty & yet very easy-drinkable "kölsch". **** Great PS. Review made during Finnish hot summer of 2018.

Perfect shit! Lager, but really wonderful highly drinkable, tasty, nice 5,5% lager with softening wheat. Could drink this all night! **** Great

Beautiful, tasty, easygoing Irish styled red ale from Finnish Lapland with malty softness. ***+ Very good

Perfect lager. No gimmicks, just perfect drinkability. ***+ Very Good

Hoppy, local, dry and tasty session IPA from the backwoods of Finland (where I live :)). *** OK Picture from Imgrum-site

Saimaa Brewing has had some shit in Finnish beer scene as their beers are doomed to be stripped from aroma and freshness, as they pastorize their beers. Beer is not milk dudes and dudettes! But still, this one was a nice easy-drinkable, I enjoyed it fast and a lot. A gem in the thrash bin? *** OK PS. Review is from summer 2018, when this was in a good form or then there were not better beers for the heatwave in Finland from our little grocery store in the neighbourhood :)

At first just a dry, burned, ashy stout. Then a lot of nice dry hoppiness. Gets better after a while and turns into a nice black IPAish beer. Still, for a nice drink this is a bit too not-nice. If you like cold black coffee, you like this. I'm more of a coffee with cream -type of guy, so this is a bit harsh, but still, not bad, not bad at all. ***- OK, just

Wheaty IPA. British styled malty IPA, maybe some wheaty smoothness, but end is hoppy dry and a bit dull. ***- OK, just