Būsi Trečias Šviesus
Būsi Trečias

Reviewed from notes taken in Summer 2014 in Vilnius:

On-draught into a bierkrug at a bar.

HEAD: 2 fingers worth of white colour head. Decent thickness and creaminess. Nice complexion and consistency. Leaves spotty inconsistent lacing as it recedes. Average (~2-3 minute) retention.

BODY: Dark hazy honey-copper colour. No yeast/lees are visible within. Translucent. Nontransparent. Generally appealing.

AROMA: Honey malt, helles malt, malty sweetness. No overt yeasty aromatics, off-notes, or booze. A pleasant albeit simple aroma of average strength.

TASTE: Honey malt, graham cracker, helles malts, malty sweetness. No overt hoppy flavours. Clean barley/2-row.

Average depth, duration, and intensity of flavour. It's nice enough, though a bit too sweet and certainly simple. Rudimentary.

TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, overcarbonated, and of nice thickness. Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, or astringent. Suits the taste okay.

OVERALL: Drinkable but dull...very standard for a Euro lager. I've had better, but the honey malt is interesting and the ABV is decently disguised.

Low C (2.83) / AVERAGE

Cloudy (as it is unfiltered), more pale-ale colored than lager-like, steadily bubbling, with a good cloud of foam. Very little smell to pick out from the woody background smell of the bar. Some banana and bread, about as neutral as can be, I might smell more glass than beer. Hearty buttered toast flavor, good hopping more herbal than bitter, apricot, a bit of orange. Substantial in the mouth but not chewy, cleansingly carbonated. After that, I'd add, a good accompaniment to a dish of fried potatoes and mushrooms, which extracted some enlivening sourness.