Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

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

(Bottled) Very pale yellow color with a medium, foamy head. Practically no aroma, maybe a hint of hops. Sweetish lemon flavor with some malt and little hops. Quite creamy and soft, light-bodied, sugary palate with medium carbonation. A quite tasteless and boring, but surprisingly creamy (or maybe foamy is the word) pale lager. More enjoyable than Saku Originaal.

Bottle at the Jam House, Birmingham. Awful, appalling beer. Thin, sickly sweet, no bitterness and a lingering murky mush taste. Damnful beer, even amongst macro Lagers, and a waste of my time and money.

Light straw color,small white head that had a decent hangtime then faded to a small lace.Sweet malt and lemony aroma with a slight amount of hops thrown in.Lightly sweet taste with a light malt and hops with a nice lemony side,there is also a slight metallic taste upfront but it fades quickly.Not a bad brew at all in fact it pretty decent,much better then the #9 i just had,more then worth trying again.

Draft. Your standard issue beer for the proletariat. On my second sampling, I find some improvements from what I had originally written, though. Somewhat light in appearance, but still a pleasing gold, with a thin lagery head. The sugary taste I had on my first sample was absent the second time around, and there was a noticable hop balance; just to counteract the malt, with no eaxtra bitterness to spare. This is the most commonly available beer in St. Pete, and the brand that is most active in advertising and sponsorships. You can usually find a portable Baltika stand in front of most railroad stations and several trolley stops, with its blue and white identifiers.

Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Pale yellow, foamy white head. Skunky hoppy nose. Carbonated, light-bodied with some alcoholic bite. Watery, oily finish. Lame.

Bottled from local bodega, umm.. why the hell have all the beers i got today damn pale lagers this style seems to suck balls. anyway Light gold color White head not as good as # 8 but not all the way bad will drink again but not buy

Sickly pale yellow with a full pure white head. Head has some staying power. Malty nose, but adjuncts are apparent. Nice touch of hop bite at the beginning gives way to rather plain and uninviting corn-malt mixture.

Yellow/golden body with a good size white head. No big aromas but some floral hops. Some malt and some hops in the taste but overall it is a bit thin.