Well now here's an oddity: a Finnish lager showing up randomly in Lidl. If it was part of a bigger promotional range, the rest of them never arrived or sold out quickly. Pyynikin in Tampere is the brewery and it's called Mosaic Lager.There's a definite haze to the 4.7%-er, rendering it a dull brassy colour. The aroma is freshly spritzy, smelling like lemon zest in particular. That continues in the flavour, lending it an almost radler-like taste, the effect accentuated by a soft texture and gentle effervescence in place of fizz. Mosaic's peach and melon complexities are missing, but so too is its nasty savoury side. The end result is simple, refreshing and eminently sessionable as a result.
Summer was a very long time ago, but keep this in mind for the next one, should it reappear.
Seems from reading your blog, both LidlIreland and Aldi Ireland are somewhat more advenurous than their UK equivelents.
ReplyDeleteMay be, though I couldn't say why that is. Perhaps there just aren't enough local suppliers to get cheap beer from.
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ReplyDeleteNorthern Ireland is also usually well behind the south in this regard, but a couple of days ago I picked up a couple of Pyynikin 500ml cans, a lager and black lager. I liked the latter more than the former, but the former was acceptable. £2 a pop iirc
ReplyDeleteI heard some more have arrived here too but I haven't been in a Lidl in months.
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