Best beers of February 2016

This month’s #1 position went to a true black horse – an unexpected arrival of an excellent beer: Founders’ Dark Penance. Bought a couple of bottles on a “Founders has never sucked”-hunch, and was rewarded, well rewarded. The rising bitterness is offset with enough malt and sweetness to provide a truly rounded package. Such serendipitous discoveries remain rare, and thus their fruits need to be savoured.

The domestic winner of February is also a dark beer – Ruosniemi’s Musta Lomittaja is a smoked saison, the top dog of this year’s Käsityöläisoluet-campaign.

FI: Mustaa helmikuuta.