Baltika 4 Originalnoe (Original)

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottled. Copper colour, rich, lasting head. Vague toffee aroma. Medium sweet with decently firm body and clean mouthfeel and notes of coffee. Might be the one Baltika beer I actually enjoy.

Chevy Chase, DC 500ml ($2.50): Pours a light, clear brown color. Aroma is toffee, caramel malts, and a hint of lager. Taste is kind of the same. Beer is slightly sweet. It is mellow and refreshing. No offensive elements are present in this beer. This is not a very complex beer, but has enough flavour to stand up and over the macro crowd.

Dark coppery-brown, a warm color. Fizzy head disappears fast. Soft palate with lingering sweet finish. Sweet, caramel, bready malt, the flavors are friendly, simple.

Bottle. Pours amber-orange, perhaps slightly hazy with a medium off-white head that dissipates pretty quickly with no lacing. Interesting aroma of carmel and malts, with a hay-like backing. Taste is very malty, roasted with caramel and coffee notes, definitely sweet. Lightly bitter finish. Mouthfeel is full and creamy. Not bad at all, actually, although an unpleasant aftertaste starts to build after a few sips.

Bottle. Amber brown colour with a quickly vanishing head. Sweet, fruity aroma. Sweet, roasted flavour.

Pours a clear and dark copper beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt, caramel and notes of roasted malts. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweetness. Overall an average beer.

Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is roasted notes, caramel and nuts. Flavour is roasted caramel and sweet fruity notes.

Brown-amber coloured and clear. Has a white head, mostly lasting. Malty aroma, notes of soy-sauce and caramel. Nice soft malty flavor, faint bitter finish. Creamy texture and soft carbonation.

caramel, bread, golden, clear, light brown foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, bitter, long finish,

Bottle. Pours dark clear caramel. Nose has a lot of sweet malt with caramel and toffee. This also goes for the taste. There are also hints of bread and rye, but not much hops. Pretty one-dimensional beer that I do not find particularly interesting!

Another Russian beer obtained on a trip to Antwerp. Best before 7th July 2010, drank 19th May 2010. The brown 500ml bottle was poured into a Westmalle Chalice and a La Chouffe tulip. Clear red/brown colour, white head, thinning quicker than most and leaving a collar only. Sweet molasses, toffee and caramel came to mind when smelling this beer, a litle too sweet for me. The flavours were very close to the smells, molasses, toffee and caramel, again too sweet in my eyes. I thought the body a bit weak and a little like a sugar water because of the sweetness encounted from the first impression the beer gave. Didn’t really enjoy the experience, should of spend my Euro’s on a Belgian beer.