Beer review: Iso-Kallan Savo Special Bitter (4.5% Finland: Iso-Kallan Panimo)

The Iso-Kallan Savo Special Bitter is a bitter, more specifically a British styled bitter. It's brewed by Iso-Kallan panimo, a Finnish microbrewery founded in 2013 and located in Kuopio. Their beers are currently available in some supermarkets in the Savo region but they're also available in beer houses all around Finland.

Taste: The Iso-Kallan Savo Special Bitter is a medium-bodied beer with a refreshing, smooth and medium strength malty body with a faint yeasty taste. It finishes with a surprisingly mild, yet pleasant and round bitterness and light grassy hoppiness.

Overall, the Iso-Kallan Savo Special Bitter is a nice beer with a nice, surpisingly smooth bitter body. It's bitter in a British, sweet sort of way and what gives this beer it's distinct character is the surpisingly hoppy finish. In my opinion, the beer lacks some strength, but then again it delivers a really nice smooth bitterness.

75 Good

Beer review: Iso-Kallan Savo Dark Lager (4.5% Finland: Iso-Kallan Panimo)

The Iso-Kallan Savo Dark Lager is a lager, more specifically a dark lager. It's brewed by Iso-Kallan panimo, a Finnish microbrewery founded in 2013 and located in Kuopio. Their beers are currently available in some supermarkets in the Savo region but they're also available in beer houses all around Finland.

Taste: The Iso-Kallan Savo Dark Lager is a medium-bodied beer with a slightly sweet, bready and faintly roasted malty body. The malty aroma is quite pleasant and the beer finishes with a faint hoppy aftertaste.

Overall, the Iso-Kallan Savo Dark Lager is a really pleasant dark lager. Especially when comparing it to the other dark lagers available in Finnish supermarkets, the Savo Dark Lager does well.

80 Great