Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

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

When I opened this beer the smell of cheap beer overwhelmed me. Standard yellow beer, now I know why Russians like Miller's Milwaukee's Best so much.

This poured a pale yellow, and had typical lager nose and taste. The taste was light, but still much better then bud.

(bottle) Very pale gold with large white head. Malt aroma. Fairly crisp with modest malt and a hint of hops. Light bodied. Your basic pale lager.

50cl bottle. Pours out a pale golden colour with a white head. Not much aroma, but a little sweet and touch of ammonia? Flavour was just thin and a hint of hops. Not great.

Clear yellow with a thick white head. Light malt aroma with some wet dog. Very clean with a mild malt flavor and a small bitter finish. On the watery side. Not bad but not great.

Plae yellow/gold color. Aromas of malt. hops, and straw. Light bodied and sweet, with some malt and hops. Not bad at all, but don’t go out of your way to find it.

Bottle. While it tastes like just about any other pale lager you can come across, it actually was pretty decent. A little weak, but (for what you should expect) it has a nice malt and hop flavor. It’s pretty smooth, and did not feel overcarbonated like so many domestics.

This seems like the typical pale lager. Clear pale golden color with a well retained whipped egg white head. Aroma of bland hops, and straw. Flavor is corn sweetner, and some moderate hop bitterness with just a tiny bit of malt grain flavor. Above average in terms of pale lagers, but pretty horrid by any other standard.