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| Review | Author | Beer | Style | Overall | Flavour profile | Summary |
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 |  | Urho III | Lager | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Do you know Finland? Ever been there? If not you might not miss that much. It's cold, most of the time dark and beer is expensive. On the other hand the girls are pretty and the... |
 | | Onnenpekka | Lager | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Once or twice a year I'm going to stay a day in Tampere, Finland. I'm mostly there for watching a movie, having a nice time with my wife, enjoying ourself and of course one to... |
 | | Dominus® Double | Ale | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I like Patrizier 2. It's a funny game. You usually start as a merchant and have to make your way up to become a Patrizier by trading with other towns. In the beginning you get one... |
 | | Liefmans Oud Bruin | Oud Bruin | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I brought about 20 bottles of Belgian beer with me from my trip to Brussels. The last weeks were very busy, so I haven't had the time to write and taste many of them. Actually I... |
 | | Trappistes Rochefort 8 | Strong Ale | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Actually I'm a big fan of Trappist beers. I had a Trappist Rochefort. At the beginning I thought that this might be a very good idea to have. It started with a very stable foam on... |
 | | Orval Trappist Ale | Ale | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | In the last weeks I was lazy about reviewing beers. Still the stash is high in Belgium beers, but somehow the workload didn’t give me the chance to really review one. We brought... |
 | | Huvila E.S.B. | Extra Special Bitter (ESB) | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | ESB stands for Extra Strong Bitter and is a brand name in the UK. That’s why I’m referring to Extra Strong Bitter and don’t use the abbreviation. The first Extra Strong... |
 | | Livinus | Other | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Saint Livinus (~ 580 – 12 November 657) was an apostle in Flanders and Brabant, venerated as a saint and martyr in the Saint Bavo Chapel, Ghent. His memorial day is the 12th of... |
 | | Kameleon Donker | Ale | 4.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Buying beers is an easy thing. You go to the shop get a beer, pay and you are done. With more choice the time to select a beer takes more time. With an endless possibility of... |
 | | Kürzer Alt | Altbier | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I took the train down to Düsseldorf to meet a good friend. We met at Heinrich-Heine-Allee and went to the Kürzer Brewery (interview will follow), the latest micro-brewery in... |
 | | Neumarkter Lammsbräu Schwarze | Hefeweizen | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Neumarkter Lammsbräu is a traditional Bavarian brewery. The only difference which distinguishes them from the other breweries is the fact that they produce organic beers. They are... |
 | | Hellers Kölsch | Kölsch | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | When I was shopping for food at Basic (German organic food store) in the city center I was very astounded to see an organic produced Kölsch. Over the last half year I have seen... |
 | | Hövels Feinherbes Rotgold | Altbier | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I lately became a fan of 24. Kind of depressed that they ended it in Season 8. Hey Kiefer, if you read this: Jack come back! While watching it I had a Hövels Original Feinherbes... |
 | | Irseer Kloster-Urtrunk | Munich Helles | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | There are discussions in the brewing world which might never ever stop. To filter or not to filter is the question of this hour. Some say it’s better to filter, because it gives... |
 | | Unknown | Not set | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Tulapukki is Finish and means „double buck „. The label shows two bucks. “Double buck” means “Doppel bock” in Germany. Ratebeer classifies the beer as a “malt... |
 | | Kwak | Ale | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I’ll confess: I really like this beer, but this was only the second time I ever tasted it. It’s not a beer you get in a German supermarket, so it’s not something I get to... |
 | | Chimay Tripel | Other | 5.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | With Belgium just some minutes away and me not getting enough of its beers I the best idea is to get a Bahn Card 50% for Deutsche Bahn. I had some Chimay in the fridge wondering... |
 | | Saimaan Luostari Dubbel | Dubbel | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | I like foam, I really do. Good foam, especially head retention combined with a well balanced body, needs a good brewer and good ingredients to show up. If a beer has no good head... |
 | | Gutmann Hefeweizen | Weizen | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | While sitting in a pizzeria in my hometown I was listening to a conversation a guy was having with the pizzeria owner. He was trying to convince the owner that he should switch his... |
 | | McGraths Irish Red | Ale | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | The 2nd beer released by the Clanconnel Brewing Company is an Irish Red. (For our German readers: It’s an ale). The name serves the colour perfectly. Once poured in the white... |
 | | Kloster Scheyern Kloster-Weisse Dunkel | Weizen | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Kloster [Kloster is German = monastery] Scheyern is a Benedictine monastery. The monks at the monastery have been brewing beer since 1119. In the beginning their beers were only... |
 | | Kloster Andechs Weissbier Hefetrüb | Weizen | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | Andechs, yes you know - the monastery. The place men or women go to be in the near of god. In the near of the Holdy Father brewers might be able to brew the best beer as the Holy... |
 | | Das gute Zirndorfer Landbier | Munich Helles | 10.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | You never know what you get until you have finally tasted it. Or as I put it here: what you taste is what you get. Amber in its color, bitter and wort emphasized in its taste makes... |
 | | Ayinger Bräu-Weisse | Weizen | 8.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | A smell of banana crawls up into my nose when I open the bottle of this wheat beer. It’s golden in colour with a little turbidity in it (the yeast). Foam stability is enormous... |
 | | Borbecker Naturtrübes Zwickelbier | Kellerbier / Zwickelbier | 6.0/10 | No flavour profile yet | The last one I drunk at my friend’s birthday party was the Borbecker Naturtrübes Zwickelbier. Its colour was lighter than amber, something between brown and red. While holding... |