Astika Fine Quality Lager

Brewed by Haskovo (StarBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Haskovo, Bulgaria

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

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Very little aroma. yellow color. This has some definite butter notes to it. A lot funk and malt in the finish. The worst of the Bulgarian beers we sampled tonight.

Bottle. Pours yellow with a medium white fizzy head. Aroma is grainy, a little off. Taste is slightly sweet, sickly, grainy with a bitter metallic aftertaste.

Corny with a dishwater palate and very little discernable hop character. It was free, which is about the only feature that redeemed this beer for me.

Has a golden color, smells of grains, some malts. Taste is crisp, refreshing, some malts and grains. Overall an easy drinking and enjoyable beer.

500ml Bottle: Aroma of corn and husks. Poured apple juice/gold in color with a small, creamy, dense, white head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is slightly sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of malt, corn, grain, and a hint of hops. Light body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, corn, grain finish is slightly sweet.

Euro Market, Queens 500ml ($1.59): Pours a pale gold with a small white head. Faint hoppy aroma. Taste like plastic with a pretty weak finish. Unique, but kind of in a bad way. Sure there are hops, but there is also some weirdness. Kind of watery.

Canned 500ml. -found somewhere in Bulgaria.Golden coloured, medium sized creamy white head, almost neutral nose (weak weak dusty malty nose). Light sweet malty, weak hoppy (Tomahawk and Hallertau hell yeah) and faint fruity with bitterish finish. Not offensive, just boring.

From the Croatian RB Crew November 2011 tasting, Ogi’s. Poured a golden-yellow body with a small white head. Light, very light dusty nose, vague apple? Candyish sweet malty light taste, very very light pineapple, slightly tart. No bitterness. And this is apparently made with Tomahawk and Hallertau. Pfffft. Still, harmless.

plastic bottle, strange butter corn aroma, pale, clear, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, empty tastemedium body, thin feel, oily feel, average carbonation, not a good beer

Bottle. Light golden with a quickly dissipating head. Macromalty aroma, macromalty taste but at least there is some hops in this beer and although it is not exactly high on bitterness, it is drinkable.

0,5 l can as a gift.
Pale zellow beer with a huge froathy white head.Malty aroma with straw and hay. Easy texture with some aldehid and diacetil in the flavor, minimal malt, vegetables and grass. Starbev...