Skitbit Oct 2016: Laitilan American Brown Ale

Brewery: Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas (in Finnish)
Country: Finland
Style: Brown Ale
Abv: 4,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is bright brown with a small diminishing white head. Aroma has gently sweet malts and a thin slice of fruits. Taste begins with malty bitterness. Gently sweet malty start turns then to supermarket lager-like musty harshness, even some vegetably flavour near the finish. Aftertaste is unpleasantly bitter malty and harsh, not nice at all.

The aroma and the start of the taste give a promise of tasty malty brown ale, but it changes to unpleasant vegginess that ruins this one. Not undrinkable but had more consistent brown ales. Somehow it feels bad to make this to be the one to open the shitpipe, but let's hope that there'll be worse tasting brews to follow.

Skitbit

I hate anything trying to imitate American - the emphasis on the verb trying. This brew is a failed try of an American Brown Ale. In the 90's - the golden decade of shit music - there was this country-disco wannabe-Yankee crap pump from Sweden. Yes, you too are trying hard to forget it. Try harder.

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