1.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
Big bottle in Kyrgyzstan. After we tried this one, we went back to drinking vodka. Weak and tasteless.
1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle from case and keg. Gold pour wtih a medium white head. Rice, corn ,wheat, cereal and the slightest hints of hops. Flavor is corny and grainy. Hints of brown rice. Meh.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Full golden colour, respectable foam head, malty and a bit grainy aroma, sweet malty palate. Full bodied.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
(bottle - 500 ml) Clear gold color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is skunky and hoppy with some random sweetness. Flavor isn’t as skunky as I thought it would be. Slightly sweet at the beginning with some hints of corn and dry hops. Slightly bitter middle and a very crisp finish. Quite watery but refreshing.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
16.9 ounce green bottle, drink by 12/16/08 (sorry Baltika). Clear light golden, pure white head that doesn’t last. on the scale of no taste to bad taste, I’d say this leans a bit more toward the former, but it’s close. A tad skunky and sour, but generally pretty light. Still, I drank this quite cold while eating a sub, and have to admit I don’t regret it.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle thanks to my neo-geo.com secret santa Kiselgof. Pale yellow body with a finger of quick white head that looks like pancake batter just dropped on the griddle. Big grassy and pale malt aroma. Taste is a bit harsh, bitter, pale malts, grassy hops.
1.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 3/20
Bottle at my 1000 Rates Celebratory tasting, 8th Jan 09, courtesy of tashi (Dave). Time for the Eastern European horrors part of the evening... Like sticking a rotten log in your mouth and rolling it around and around. Like something fished out from a lake. Smells like moldy two-weeks-unwashed gym kit. Taste as above, but artificially sweetened. Looks like a normal lager. Avoid, like the plague. In fact, catch the plague rather than drink this.
0.9 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
A Mes rate. Oh my god, erm... cheers Dave. Pale yellow with a thin white head. Sadly, it’s dramatically downhill from there. Select rice??? I have to say I am not known to demand premium rice in my beer. Smells of an age old, well worn gym socks. Sadly it tastes exactly the same... but sweetened. My god it’s vile. If I wanted something like this in my mouth I could suck a sumo wrestlers toe. As it is, I’m just not into that sort of thing. Save me. NEXT
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