Baltika 2 Svetloe

Brewed by Baltika Brewery (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
St. Petersburg, Russia

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

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Light golden color,small white head that faded quickly leaving little behind.The aroma was light malt some grain and maybe a hint of fruit but hard to say.The flavor was pretty nasty,griany and mild malt with a mild hint of hops and a slight metallic side.Pretty nasty brew and not worth diving into again.

500 ml bottle shared by Lubiere (merci!), served cold in a goblet. $0.96!! OC 07/09.

App.: Deep golden with a rim of white. Aroma: Some biscuity malts, some dirty ash, some light really stale apple juice, oxidized, lightly metallic, a little cereal, maybe a wee hint of hops? Palate: Medium body and sparse carbonation. Flav.: An odd cloying sweetness, some honey and light brown sugar, a bit oxidized; oddly sweet with no bitterness.

A bit tired, a bit odd.

These were brand spankin’ new at the store and mine was skunked like it was subjected to UV light for months. A little grass under that god-awful stench. Medium golden color under a fully-fading white head. Mild bitterness to start ending with sour milk (mostly when I use "sour" to describe a flavor it is lemon or grapefruit sour... this is sour milk). It ended by giving me a "Heineken-headache"... and I’ve no respect for that. More than half down the drain, and it took half box of baking soda to get the skunk smell out of the kitchen. Horrible.

Regretfully, I am anally-retentive as a collector and need to acquire Baltika 0 through 10 for my growing bottle collection. I have number 7 sitting in my fridge and I sadly predict it will perform in the exact same way.

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50 cl bottle - thanks to Eivind. Clear golden color, disappering white head. Aroma is grassy. Flavor is sweet and grassy. Refreshing, but thin.

Golden color, large white head, some lacing and retention. Aroma is bread, pale malt, light grain and grass. Lighter bodied, somewhat sweet, quite drinkable.

This is essentially a pale lager, an imitation of Budweiser and other odious brews. The aroma, flavor, appearance and palate all typical for this style. The beer emits a spicy, grassy aroma. The appearance is the same old yellow with white head. The flavor is affected mainly by the adjuncts, like rice and corn. The palate has a slight hoppynes to it, nothing remarkable. at least now I’ve had all the Baltika beers, 1-9.

poured a pale golden small white head that quickly dissapates, mostly skunky malt aroma, taste is malty and sweet, with some sourness present in the finish, nothing great at all about this beer.

(bottle) Mild aroma - just a bit grassy. Pale gold with rapidly fading white head. Mild malt flavor with light body - grassy hops in the finish.

Almost clear in color with a small white head. Not much aroma. This Russian beer with plenty of rice seems very much like it’s American counter part, Bud.

500 ml Bottle in Germany. Golden color with a soft white head. Caramel malty, grass aroma. A sweet malty, straw, light hop taste almost like and NA. Light body with a sweet NA type Palate. Blah