Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

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

Light malty brew, with a pale color and not much head. Sweet with just a hint of hops. A good light summer brew.

Pretty crappy lager. Weak, thin taste of malt. It’s clean and crisp to the palate. Pass.

500ml bottle. Aroma is of pilsener malt, light light light. Flavor is malty, sweet, a bit of bubble gum. The noticeable difference in this one is its incredibly smooth mouthfeel compared to similar beers in this style.

500ml bottle (Best Before: 09.12.09) and served in a pint glass. Poured a crystal clear golden hue with a two-finger thick head of lasting off-white foam. A decent amount of chunky lace was left around the glass. The aroma included sweet pale malt, grass, and hay. The flavor had sweet malt, bread, light grassy hops, and some hay. Medium-bodied with light carbonation. Much better body and a more manageable level of carbonation than most American macros. Better than expected. It actually has a little flavor.

Clear yellow beer poured with a fluffy white head and a light malt aroma. There is very little favor of any sort, but I think I detect a little banana ester and slight hop bitterness.

One of the options on the Russian river boat MS Taras Shevchenko cruising down the Dnieper. I had a few 500ml bottles as a partner to lunch and dinner. Clear, light golden body with a lasting, lacing head. Mild grass-floral aroma. Perfumed taste of pale malty sweetness followed by a few hints of hops. Smooth, clean and food friendly. Reasonably alright industrial lager (Dnieper River, Ukraine, mid-July 09).

Very pale and light, slight pepper aroma. Better bitterness than its cousins, but nothing to write home about.

Crystal blonded bodied with thick, airy, poofy head. Clean whiff of pilsen malt that is light and refreshing. Ok, so far. Flavor is also clean, crisp, and refreshing. Light-bodied maltiness with a clean finishing sweetness. A surprisingly well-crafted Russian lager. Clean and refreshing stuff for those warmer weather days.