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| Review | Author | Beer | Style | Overall | Flavour profile | Summary |
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 |  | Stallhagen III | Lager | 5.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | It’s UEFA EM 2012. I mostly follow the Germans team. Whenever Germany scores a goal I open a bottle of beer. When Podolski (he had is 100th international match on that day)... |
 | | Pyynikin Sessio Red Ale | Irish Red Ale | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Some beers get their second chance. This time it is the Pyynikkin Sessio Red Ale. Actually I accidentally bought the bottle while looking for a another Red Ale. So I ended up with... |
 | | Schwarze Sau | Bock | 7.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | "So G'sell so" schallt es jede halbe Stunde abends in den kleinen gemütlichen Gassen Nördlingens. Um diesen Wächterruf rankt sich ein Mythos. Auf der Offiziellen Webseite... |
 | | Mallaskuun Amber Ale | Ale | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | When I came across the Mallaskun Breweries Beers at Tokmannin I had to buy them all. It is basically my duty to get all the different Finnish Beers tasted. While the list piles up... |
 | | St. Louis Gueuze Lambic | Gueuze | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | In a glass, poured from a bottle in Brussels Main Square Apparently Gueuze is a popular Belgian beer. I can somehow understand enough people like it: if you get past the... |
 | | Joulu Olut | Ale | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | It was Christmas some time ago, but I haven't drunk my Christmas beer yet. So I guessed that now is the right time for it. Why? Because there was still snow outside and it was... |
 | | Black Isle Organic Yellow Hammer | Ale | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | A long time ago I put the Black Isle brewery onto Lautering.net. A friend of mine added their beers. When I walked through a Finish supermarket I noticed some of their beers. I... |
 | | Maku Vehnä | Weizen | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I have that game going on when we are at a Finnish supermarket: Get me a beer for under n €, where n is a number between 2 and 6. So we came up with the Maku Vehnä. Their can... |
 | | Laitilan Kievari Mämmi | Other | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | If you're in Finland over Easter you might get some Mämmi served. Mämmi is made out of rye flour, rye malt and molasses. It tastes like licorice, is very sweet and very strong in... |
 | | Hersbrucker Gebirge | German Pils | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | When I was working for Karlsberg (Saarland, Germany) I once was at the brew house for maintenance reasons - my colleague and I had to clean the Meuro 2001 mash filter - I... |
 | | Weltenburger Kloster Barock Dunkel | Munich Dunkel | 7.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Ever lived in a monastery? No? A friend of mine once decided to be a monk and went to the nearest monastery. One week later he came back and decided that he never will be a monk... |
 | | Schanzenbräu Rotbier | Lager | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | So, I went to the super market the other day, into the beer section and I came across a rather odd piece of beer. It is called Schanzenbräu Rotbier and I wondered how it would... |
 | | Huppendorfer Weihnachtsbier | Märzen | 7.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Last Christmas is gone since long but I still have some „Weihnachtsbier“ [Weihnachtsbier = German for Christmas beer] in my stash. Actually this one I'm having now was a... |
 | | Polaris Hüller | German Pils | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Getting real good beer is one of the benefits being in Nuremburg pre Brau Beviale. To say one thing upfront: The Green Monk(ey) Polaris Hüller is the second beer in a row that has... |
 | | Grüner Hell | Munich Helles | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I recently went to Nuremburg to stay for 2 days and do some Christmas shopping. I had to check for winter gloves and other stuff. So while in the city center we had a stop at a bar... |
 | | Marsalkka Luomuvehnä | Hefeweizen | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | In Finland the majority of beers get canned (that's what I get from the super market shelf). I'm not yet sure why, but that's how it is. There are bottles on the market, of course... |
 | | Keisari Munchener Premium | Lager | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | When we visited the Nokian Panimo for its 25 years anniversary we had the opportunity to buy their beers for a discount price. We basically bought one beer from each of theirs... |
 | | Helles Rieser Landbier | Munich Helles | 7.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Beer enthusiasts from the Nördlinger Ries have created the receipt for this beer. According to the label they created a traditional Bavarian “Helles”. Ok, Helles it is today... |
 | | Riedenburger Ur-Helles | Munich Helles | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Sometimes breweries from outside Bavaria try to produce beers originated in Baveria. Many times breweries from other than the origin of the style having difficulties to produce... |
 | | Stallhagen Delikat | Lager | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Finland is the land of the great lakes, woods and of course, of snow. It is the land of great directors and movies. On the 4th of April, some days before Easter, a Finish movie... |
 | | Laiskajaakko | Lager | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | We where sitting in the Teerenpeli bar in Tampere, Finnland, while tasting this beer. The background music was ok, the weather wasn't. I guess its the best time and situation to... |
 | | Fürst Wallerstein Zwickel | Kellerbier / Zwickelbier | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | First things first: Happy new year everyone! In the south of Germany, in the north of Swabian lays the small town of Wallerstein. Wallerstein is known because of the Romatic Road... |
 | | Karjala Terva | Other | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | We have been to a supermarket in Laitikalla, Finland to buy some beers for a party. I had my mouth wide open when I was standing in front of the two 3 meter rows of all kind of... |
 | | Bayreuther Bio-Weisse | Hefeweizen | 3.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Back from the last trip to Bavaria, Germany, got me a huge selection of wheat beers. One after another will be tasted, I promiss. I'll keep it very simple this time. Smell... |
 | | Augustiner Dunkel | Munich Dunkel | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | During the school time the apprentice brewers of the other Munich breweries, Paulander, Spaten and Löwenbräu asked the teacher about a rumor they have heard from the higher... |