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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UPDATED: JUL 20, 2005 One whiff of this, and you’ll understand why Baltika Brewery has so many flavored versions of #2. It’s got a skunk aroma, pure and simple. Dead skunk. It pours out pale yellow with a frothy head and... wait - there’s no head! It tastes corny with some other canned vegetables with a dollop of honey and a bitter metallic aftertaste. I just realized, this is my 600th rating for 2005. What a way to exhibit my class....

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Smells like a damp rag that urgently needs to be washed out or even thrown away... tastes slightly better than the smell. Some hints of malt.

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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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

500 ml bottle. The aroma is all stink... massively skunked character that just won’t go away. A light earthiness underneath Thin body but not much in the way of redeeming qualities.

Bottle. Pours pale gold with small white head. Aroma is all skunk. Flavor is pretty bad as well, not in any shape for drinking. This one may never have been good, but it’s worthless now. I’m rating it because I paid for it.