Best Beers of June 2017

The best beer of the month is the random “I need one more bottle to fill my bag”-pickup from Uba ja Humal last week: Õllenaut’s Ootab Armastus is a low-voltage New England IPA – fruitful, sweet and profoundly unfiltered. I so hope this baby gets imported properly, I could mainline this all summer long. And since quite a few of the brewery’s beers are in K-shops, I don’t think that’s a far-fetched thought.

The summer’s been slow to get going, and some evenings have been righteously chilly. Hence a stiff Vuorineuvos aged in Bunnahabhain a cask is my domestic pick. Even though the smokiness (par for the course for an Islay-originating cask) makes the stout a bit one-dimensional, it’s nonetheless a very pleasant warmer-upper.

FI: Uuden englannin IPAa ja Islaylaisen tynnörin savustamaa stouttia, kiitos.