Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

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

Bottled. Thin golden colour, not much head to speak off. Malty, grain, cheep cereal aroma. Nasty larger. Available from the Russian Bar/Restaurant on Clarkenwell Rd.

Clear pale yellow. Large creamy white head that sticks around a while. Sweet corn aroma with some citrusy hints. Crisp slight hop taste that is mostly sweet and a bit of grain. Weird dry pineapple finish. Not too bad of a mouthfeel. Better than I expected. Much more drinkable than American Pale Lagers.

Weak aroma of sweet malts, maybe corn. The color is a very light yellow, almost urine colored. The flavor is bland, but not any more so than most pale lagers. A little bit of corn residue on the palate. Not impressive, but not bad comapred to some other pale lagers.

Bottle at Porterhouse, Dublin. Golden body, big head. Nose of hops and grassy. Same with the taste. Not much to it. Watery and grassy texture.

500ml bottle. pale gold color. almost non-existant head. tiny malt aroma. light carbonation. crisp and refreshing. would be good after a long hot dirt bike ride in the Mojave Desert. being from Russia I expected it to be as nasty as Russian cigarettes(which are dreadfully horrible), which it is not.

Pours a lemony golden color, with a bready maltiness, lightly bittersweet, grainy and sour in the finish. Nothing exciting about this one at all.

I tried Baltika 3 because I had some Russian friends and I wanted to taste Russian beer. I found that it wasn’t that good at all

Pours amber with a small persistent head. The aroma shows sweet malt but is faint, and some vegetal notes are present in the background. Rich malty flavours, but still slightly reminiscent of cooked vegetables. At least the carbonation isn’t too high.