Alma-Ata Pilsner

Brewed by Pivovarennaya Kompaniya Derbes (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Almaty, Kazakhstan

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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(Bottled) Slightly hazy yellow with hardly any head. Lemony-hoppy aroma with some cardboard and pale malts. The flavor is also quite lemony and cardboardy, but not as crisp as expected from the aroma. Light-bodied, but not watery palate with soft carbonation. A surprisingly clean and drinkable pils.

Bottled 500ml. -Brought by a friend from Kazakhstan. Yellow coloured, small white head, touch of grain in the nose. Also watery like Derbes Klassičeskoe with weak notes of cardboard and rice. Again no hops. Short bitterish finish.

Jagshemash! ogivlado give me and drink too the glorious beer of our glorious capitol city Алматы which say Almaty but also say Alma-Ata. City so glorious it has many names! All beer we drink brew Derbes, very nice! This sıra yellow like grass of Kazakh Steppe when grass hay. Head go fast like satellite in Baikonur and take aroma too into glorious outer space! So there no aroma because it in space! Good job! Many water from Altay mountains come in beer and wash away drifter cardboard house with rice too. Drifter safe and national hero! Too much Kazakhstan water for only one cardboard and rice so it is weak like our enemies everywhere! Jew sneak little hop in beer but we scare away before lay egg! Great success! So I water lawn with beer full of mountains water so it not yellow like beer. Now I am confused. But better than Hungary shopkeeper beer!

Bottle shared courtesy of zrrbrrt. Thanks for this hard to get country. Bottle marked B 21507. Poured a light and slightly hazy yellow color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of wet grass, corn, and grainy. Tastes follow with a light honey sweetness. Not overly offense but did not make sexy time in my mouth.

Poured a pale golden color with a small, white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of corn, light citrus fruits, toffee, and a bit of metal. Taste of sweeter toffee, corn, honey, and citrus, with a cardboard finish.

Thanks to zrrbrrt...VERY NIIIIIIIIIICE!...well not really. But here we go. Pours a translucent golden yellow with a mall bubbly white head. Aroma of corn, grass, lemon and grainy. Flavor of corn, grass, lemon and not a whole lot more.

Clean yellow colored, fastly vanishing white head. Cardboard and lemon in still sweet aroma. Thin to medium bodied. Flavor is also clean but dull: lemon and mild cardboard, mild flavored indeed. Drying aftertaste.

Bottled. Pale yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is maize and some slight cardboard. Flavour is maize, sweet malts and quite skunky.

Bottled. Hardly even yellow, negligable head. Vegetable aroma. Sweetish and bland. Some corn, no bitterness. Very industrial. Oh, so this is Baltic Beverage Holdings? Explains it...

Bottled, alc. 4.5 %, gr. 11.5 % (BB? 05/2007)
Very pale yellow color, not much head. Cardboard aroma, faint hints of hops, something like in German supermarket beers. Taste is similar: papery malty with some sweetness. Not much hops found.