Kovarnių
Dundulis
- From:
- Dundulis
- Lithuania
- Style:
- Smoked Beer
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 11.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 13, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.42/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Bottle @ Šnekutis in Vilnius.
Pours a quickly dissipating creamy beige head. Disappears inside a minute, leaving no lacing.
Body is an opaque brown-black. An ink or jet black would be preferable.
Sm: Smoke presence is evident, and it comes sans any acridity or ashen notes. Peat presence is akin to a fine Bruichleaddich Scotch. Faint cream. Schwarz malts.
Still more peat and smoke would be welcome, but this aroma suggests a balanced pungent brew. I find none of the cured meat/bacon notes you'd expect in, say, Schlenkerla. Finally a Lithuanian beer with real potential!
Average strength of smell for a smoked stout.
T: Smokey indeed, but it comes accompanied by an obnoxious bitterness in the third act. And the texture is oddly lumpy and uneven, sometimes creamy but bending thin and weak at points in the structure (e.g. the finish).
Cream, pumpernickel bread, schwarz malts, acrid acidic spent coffee grounds, maybe Caramel.
Not as balanced as I hoped, but the smoke is palpable (if wanting). The peat is the big disappointment in this brew, if only because the aroma promised so much...it comes out weak in the flavour profile.
Getting back to the mouthfeel, it's otherwise as you'd expect...filling, medium to full-bodied, smooth, wet, Unrefreshing.
Not astringent, harsh, gushed, hot, boozy, or scratchy. Overall presence on the palate is decent, though this lacks the coarseness and dryness that would really accentuate the smoke. Maybe more roasted barley is the answer.
O: Easily one of the top 5 Lithuanian beers I've ever had. It's an ambitious inspired effort from the brewery, and though it falls short of its lofty aims, it does deliver serious flavour and I dig the heart of the beer - the smoke. Drinkable and we'll worth trying, but I will say it occupies an awkward place in the middle of the smoke beer spectrum...you can go mellow and drinkable (Schlenkerla's rauch weizen) or you can go unabashed full on ashtray-lick (Schlenkerla's core brew; Alaskan's smoked porter), but playing in the middle of the sandbox is less effective. Ramp it up or tone it down. I'd tend towards the former.
B- / WORTHY
Feb 26, 2016Pours a quickly dissipating creamy beige head. Disappears inside a minute, leaving no lacing.
Body is an opaque brown-black. An ink or jet black would be preferable.
Sm: Smoke presence is evident, and it comes sans any acridity or ashen notes. Peat presence is akin to a fine Bruichleaddich Scotch. Faint cream. Schwarz malts.
Still more peat and smoke would be welcome, but this aroma suggests a balanced pungent brew. I find none of the cured meat/bacon notes you'd expect in, say, Schlenkerla. Finally a Lithuanian beer with real potential!
Average strength of smell for a smoked stout.
T: Smokey indeed, but it comes accompanied by an obnoxious bitterness in the third act. And the texture is oddly lumpy and uneven, sometimes creamy but bending thin and weak at points in the structure (e.g. the finish).
Cream, pumpernickel bread, schwarz malts, acrid acidic spent coffee grounds, maybe Caramel.
Not as balanced as I hoped, but the smoke is palpable (if wanting). The peat is the big disappointment in this brew, if only because the aroma promised so much...it comes out weak in the flavour profile.
Getting back to the mouthfeel, it's otherwise as you'd expect...filling, medium to full-bodied, smooth, wet, Unrefreshing.
Not astringent, harsh, gushed, hot, boozy, or scratchy. Overall presence on the palate is decent, though this lacks the coarseness and dryness that would really accentuate the smoke. Maybe more roasted barley is the answer.
O: Easily one of the top 5 Lithuanian beers I've ever had. It's an ambitious inspired effort from the brewery, and though it falls short of its lofty aims, it does deliver serious flavour and I dig the heart of the beer - the smoke. Drinkable and we'll worth trying, but I will say it occupies an awkward place in the middle of the smoke beer spectrum...you can go mellow and drinkable (Schlenkerla's rauch weizen) or you can go unabashed full on ashtray-lick (Schlenkerla's core brew; Alaskan's smoked porter), but playing in the middle of the sandbox is less effective. Ramp it up or tone it down. I'd tend towards the former.
B- / WORTHY
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