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This year's vintage to the test. The beer is brewed by the Helsinki-based activity center of persons with disabilities. The beer pours massively turbid, light brown. The carbonation is ridiculously abundant, simply excessive. The beer sprays loads of drops on the ceiling. 😵  Thus, needs cleaning... A latte-hued, soapy head shoots up to two palms' height even if poured extremely carefully. The head descends sluggishly downwards and paints the glass with multiple tiny spots. The scent offers brown malt, hefty clove and bags of juniper berry. The taste follows the suit: a good amount of malt, strong clove and massive bitter yeast, accompanied by loads of juniper berry and a tad cinnamon peel. Quite strange! The body is rather thin. The beer finishes with bitter malt, strong yeast and coarse cinnamon peel. The aftertaste confuses the tastebuds for some time. The mouthfeel is relatively thin, slightly tangy, heavily spiced and oddly Christmassy. It's also astonishingly musty, turbid, closed and seriously overcarbonated, which ruins the experience.

This beer is the first "commercial" beer produced by a Helsinki-based activity center of persons with disabilities. The collaborating partners include Nokia Brewery, Finnish Beer Association and two shops that sell equipment and materials to homebrewers. The beer pours semimisty, light copper with zero carbonation. No head emerges on the top. The scent is modest but recognizeably Christmassy: some gingerbread with especially ginger and cinnamon emanates to the nostrils. The tongue receives more pronounced gingerbread, again with stronger ginger and cinnamon, accompanied by a pinch of lemon peel and significantly faint cardamom. The body is scanty as expected. The beer ends with truly watery lemon juice and distant ginger, followed by a little bit of cinnamon. The aftertaste vanishes hastily from the mouth. The mouthfeel is somewhat watery, flat, substantially Christmassy, a bit spiced and rather refreshing. Decent, seasonally flavored low-alc (2.8 %) Table Beer to accompany a meal. Much better, however, than its nonalcoholic "brothers".