Wiru Winter Beer Reviews

Wiru Winter Beer Beer / Cider

Product Type: Viru Brewery Beer

Newest Review: ... heating beer up with herbs and spices. In Estonia, it's strong sweet dark beer that gets the nod. Admittedly, I'm more of a ... more

 ... fan of lager than dark beer although the odd brand does really get my approval. Wiru Talveoulu is not one of those, it's far too malty and it's got an excessively sweet taste. It's full bodied and comes in quite a snazzy bottle, it pours a dark cola kind of colour with a frothy coffee like head. The toasted taste is a flavour that I enjoy in dark beer but it's barely noticeable in this one and is easily outdone by an alcohol flavour and the sweetness of the malt. Incidently the alcohol flavour seems a little out of ...more

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dangaroo
Wiru Winter Beer: An overly sweet beer (215 words)
by - written on 09/05/09 (Very useful, 40 readings)
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Wiru Winter Beer, usually known as Wiru Talveoulu is a dark dunkel type beer. There's a habit in Central and Eastern Europe of doing strange things to beer come winter time in Poland and Russia this involves heating beer up with herbs and spices. In Estonia, it's strong sweet dark beer that gets the nod. Admittedly, I'm more of a fan of lager than dark beer although the odd brand does really get my approval. Wiru Talveoulu is not one of those, it's far too malty and it's got an excessively sweet taste. It's full bodied and comes in quite a snazzy bottle, it pours a dark cola kind of colour with a frothy coffee like head. The toasted taste is a flavour that I ...  Read the complete review

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