Chicago's Alus
Davra
- From:
- Davra
- Lithuania
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 10.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 04, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Beer dedicated to honor the grandfather and great-grandfather of the Daujotai family, Juozapas Selenis. “Chicago’s” beer is characterized by a striking reddish color, with the coffee and caramel aroma overshadowed by the refreshing bitterness of hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cheeseheadinMinneapolis from Wisconsin
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
not bad, it tastes fresh no date code that I can find, 1 liter bottle. The flavor didn't come out till it warmed up some.
Plenty of carbonation. Refreshing in hot weather. Grain, herbs and micro amount of a fruit (apple/pear maybe) flavor. not really bitter or maybe just slightly sweet. Nothing great but not bad.
Jul 17, 2021Plenty of carbonation. Refreshing in hot weather. Grain, herbs and micro amount of a fruit (apple/pear maybe) flavor. not really bitter or maybe just slightly sweet. Nothing great but not bad.
Reviewed by BBThunderbolt from Kiribati
3.08/5 rDev -18.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.08/5 rDev -18.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
1 liter swing top bottle (no visible date) poured into 12oz tulip. Poured a lightly cloudy light honey color with over an inch of light tan head that had OK retention and no lacing.
The aroma and flavor were very similar; lots of sweet malt, and very faint floral hops.
The body was full, smooth, and had a finish that was sweet and somewhat sticky.
Drinkability was OK, but by the time two of us had finished the litre, we were ready to be done with it.
Overall, sort of a meh beer, but good for what it is.
May 14, 2021The aroma and flavor were very similar; lots of sweet malt, and very faint floral hops.
The body was full, smooth, and had a finish that was sweet and somewhat sticky.
Drinkability was OK, but by the time two of us had finished the litre, we were ready to be done with it.
Overall, sort of a meh beer, but good for what it is.
Reviewed by KooVee from Finland
4.44/5 rDev +17.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +17.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
1l swingtop bottle acquired from Vilnius. 30m past bb, which I am taking into account. Kept the bottle as I wanted to harvest the yeast. Now one can buy Lithuanian kaimiskas yeast, so no such need any more. This is more a look at how this ages.
Very clear red-tinged golden colour after all this time. Carbonation is still very alive and the foam is large bubbles with staying power.
Aroma is cookies, dark fruit, brown sugar, caramel. One could mistake this for a delicious dark strongish English bitter, were it not for a whiff of unripe green apples in the end. The cork type of wooden aroma grows as the beer opens up.
When we reach taste, the malts have long gone, and there is only a memory of the sweetness that now only lives in the aroma. Instead the apple orchard tartness has now taken over, but as one's palate accommodates, it feels ripe enough to be refreshing instead of off-putting. The wood blends in and suddenly I feel I am drinking a blend of a wood aged craft cider and a British Pale Ale. 80-20 I'd wager. Bitterness is extinct by now.
My opinion of this has gone from initial judgement of 'uh-oh, an infection has taken over by this time' to 'ok, this is not bad' to 'these yeasts are interestingly different when they age'. I am mainly wondering if there is a lactobacillus component in the brew or the yeast(s) really evolve like this. This is not really like a lacto, certainly not brett, pedio or anything like that. No medicinal notes either. In the end this works, but can't really compare to anything except a few of my own brews. There is a vast field of opportunities to be mined in aging properly brewed weaker (this one is 5.6%) beers with live yeast. They often turn out along the way in areas of taste dimensionality that are both surprising , pleasant and require patience (cannot be created while young).
This is exhilarating. And I bet while young, I would have given 3.75 at most.
Nov 02, 2019Very clear red-tinged golden colour after all this time. Carbonation is still very alive and the foam is large bubbles with staying power.
Aroma is cookies, dark fruit, brown sugar, caramel. One could mistake this for a delicious dark strongish English bitter, were it not for a whiff of unripe green apples in the end. The cork type of wooden aroma grows as the beer opens up.
When we reach taste, the malts have long gone, and there is only a memory of the sweetness that now only lives in the aroma. Instead the apple orchard tartness has now taken over, but as one's palate accommodates, it feels ripe enough to be refreshing instead of off-putting. The wood blends in and suddenly I feel I am drinking a blend of a wood aged craft cider and a British Pale Ale. 80-20 I'd wager. Bitterness is extinct by now.
My opinion of this has gone from initial judgement of 'uh-oh, an infection has taken over by this time' to 'ok, this is not bad' to 'these yeasts are interestingly different when they age'. I am mainly wondering if there is a lactobacillus component in the brew or the yeast(s) really evolve like this. This is not really like a lacto, certainly not brett, pedio or anything like that. No medicinal notes either. In the end this works, but can't really compare to anything except a few of my own brews. There is a vast field of opportunities to be mined in aging properly brewed weaker (this one is 5.6%) beers with live yeast. They often turn out along the way in areas of taste dimensionality that are both surprising , pleasant and require patience (cannot be created while young).
This is exhilarating. And I bet while young, I would have given 3.75 at most.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.47/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Shared a bomber at a superbowl party, actually not bad. In fact the appearance was quite beautiful with an active golden brown body and two fingers of a white head. Smell has a sweet resin of apple, raisin, and sugary malt. Taste suffered from over sweetness and euro macro flavors in the finish, but did have a nice herbal element in the middle of it all. Feel is a little thin and sticky, but otherwise frothy and fine
Feb 06, 2019
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