Arsenal Svitle

Brewed by Slavutych (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

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

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Pours clear gold with a white head. Clean malty and grainy aroma. The flavor has grainy malt with some light sweetness.

Bottled. Pale golden colour with airy head. Vegetable rotten nose. Soft mouthfeel and bit fruity with no bitterness.

Some strange looking notes, that are far beyond my ancient language reading abilities.

Pours with almost no head, piss-yellow colour with some carbonation is emanating from the glass. Smells barely like grains. Oh boy, another boring Ukrainian lager, I’m thinking! Taste is.... uh, taste? Can’t taste anything.... feels a little syrupy, and that’s about it. Incredibly boring. Why bother?

500ml bottle, bb.30.06.09, purchased at a kiosk in central Zaporizhzhya. Straw-yellow body under a fading, white head. Mild aroma of citric grass. Sweet citric flavour with a touch of corn. Lively carbonated and foamy mouthfeel. Thin to medium bodied. Does not carry much of interest (10.07.2009).

Bottle, 4.4%. Almost clear pale yellow colour. Very small white head. The flavour is quite thin. Has a little fruity citrus note. Low bitterness. Quite clean, but boring.

500 ml bottle. From Latvia. BBE 03.08.08. Clear golden colour with thin white head. Weak sweet malty and even a bit hoppy aroma. Flavour is very basic pale lager. Malty. Nothing wrong with this.

500ml bottle (Kasisaba, Tallinn)
Slightly sour aroma. Sour palate. Touch lactic - this must be poor QC. Some haziness too. Didn;t enjoy. Maybe better not off, you can tell there’s an OK clean lager trying to get out.

1l plastic bottle from a Russian supermarket. Clear deep golden yellow, large white head. Looks alright but smells very very fruity, almost like old fruit juice. Sweet and veeery fruity indeed, in a very strange way, not pleasant at all. This does hardly taste like beer, more as I imagine fruit juice that has been left open for a few weeks, mixed with old socks. Good heavens, I’ve tasted some really fine beers from Ukraine, but this is not going to be one of my favourites. Perhaps, or probably, something was wrong with the bottle – it was a special offer and there was no use-by date on the bottle.

500ml Bottle - Golden in colour with mild carbonation and a foamy white head. Fresh and grassy aroma with malt. Malty and clean tasting although slightly flat despite being tangy on the tongue at first. Goes down well on a hot day but is nothing special.