About

Vilkmergės is super premium Lithuanian traditional crafted beer. It is crafted in a small brewery following the traditions of XVIII century brewing. TOP fermenting ALE type beer. Vilkmergės offers unique, distinctive and rich taste ales. Brewed from highest quality water, malt and hops in small batches. Uniquely packed in a thick, dark glass bottle, that had recovered Lithuanian capacity unit KVORTA (0,82L) which was popular in that region in XVIII century for limited editions. Regular editions are bottled in ½ KVORTA bottles (0.41L). Several products available in 0,5L cans.

Beer Awards

2012: VILKMERGĖS ŠVIESUSIS – GOLD medal in
“Best product 2012“ of Lithuania
2012: VILKMERGĖS KVIETINIS –
GOLD medal in “Best product 2012“ of Lithuania
2014: VILKMERGĖS TAMSUSIS –
GOLD medal in“Best product 2014“ of Lithuania
2015: VILKMERGĖS VYŠNIŲ KRIEK –
iTQi Superior Taste Awards
2015: VILKMERGĖS VYŠNIŲ KRIEK –
GOLD medal in “World Beer Awards”
2015: VILKMERGĖS KVIETINIS –
SILVER medal in “World Beer Awards”
2018: VILKMERGĖS KVIETINIS –
SILVER medal in MEININGER’S International Craft Beer Award

How We Taste It

Quite often someone who has just had a beer can tell you whether they liked it or not. Yet tasting is a far more delicate and distinct art. If you follow the steps below, you can discover the style of beer that works best for you, and get to know the vast world of beer.

How Do We Pour It?

1. Hold the glass at a 45 degree angle to reduce the head. The bottle has to be several centimetres above the middle of the glass. The pouring should not be done too slowly, letting the head to settle.

What Do You See?

Judge the colour, head, clarity. 2. After we pour our beer, we first give it a visual check-up. Lift the glass to an eye-level and take a close look at the beer as you hold it against a light source. Judge the colour of the beer (is it very light, dark, or even black-amber-coloured?), its head (how firm it is, or if it is there at all), and clarity/cloudiness (to see if the beer is filtered or not).

What Do You Smell?

Smell it. 3. Another task is for the nose. Usually, breath tends to be shallow and brief. Then we take the deeper one. What do we smell? Citrus or other fruit, bread, coffee, caramel... To highlight the aroma, you may want to swirl the glass around a couple of times.

What Does It Taste Like?

Have a taste: sip and swallow. 4. The last in line to judge is the palate. We taste it gradually: first we moisten our tongue with beer, then take a sip, follow it with one that is bigger, and so on. The human tongue is teeming with receptors: we taste saltiness, bitterness, sweetness, sourness... The bitterness receptors are located at the back of the tongue and therefore, unlike wine, beer needs to be swallowed.

What Is The Overall Impression

5. Once the above 4 steps are completed, we can form an all-round impression about the beer we are tasting. After we swallow a mouthful, part of the aroma of the beer rises back up our throat and a ‘second’ smell hits our pharynx. The first impression of taste is followed by the next. By the way, we can experience more smells and fragrances in one sip of beer than any other beverage.