Rinkuskiai Aiko Stiprus

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A golden appearance with a moderate white head. The aroma isn’t bad, quite malty with some lemons, table sugar, and a candy aspect to it. The flavor is rather sweet with some lemons, candy sugars, and a hint of alcohol. The beer doesn’t taste bad but its a bit cloying with a syrupy finish. Overall better than I expected and nothing horrid but certainly not a session lager.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

What a crazy beer. Overly sweet malts all the way through. With a strong liquor/alcohol aroma and taste. It poured a pee yellow colour and it finished dry with a wicked grainy flavor.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Wow, a strong lager at 9.5% from Eastern Europe (former Communist Block); this should be interesting. The aroma is thick and hot and full of synthetic overtones with some very sweet malt coming through and is very doughey and diesel fuel-like and is very reminiscient of an American malt liquor. The appearance is a very pale, darker yellow with hardly any head whatsoever with some light lacing that coats the glass and is white in color. The mouthfeel is full of sweet malt with hardly any complexity or balance of hops and has a palate that is thick and very ruff as well as very wet. The flavor is extremely sweet and not as bad as I expected and is full of sweet malt, corn, and grain with an aftertaste that is metallic and synthetic with a finish that is a bit dry and extremely alcoholic. Overall, this is Eastern European malt liquor but I must admit it is of superior quality than its American counterparts but that is not saying much; I will probably never purchase this brew again but it was not as bad as I expected.