Baltika 5 Zolotoe (Golden)

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Sampled on 9/24/2009. Bottled on 6/7/08. Oh NO!, the beer is past its best by date! This pale lager pours a light orange gold color from a clean 50cl bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is cereal and grain, sweet corn and hay. Not all that unpleasant. A medium bodied Pale Lager. The malts are cereal and sweet, touch of grain. The hops are kind of spicy. Lively carbonation. A touch of corn and vegetable flavors kind of dominate the malts. Get more pronounced as it warms. Not horrid but not very good either. Mouthfeel is thin. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter with a touch of metal and some cardboard.

Decent aroma, malty with a hint of apple. Pours with a decent head and leaves a little lacing, but really let down by its palate, dismally watery. Taste leans more towards malt, a little corn, a hint of some hard to discern fruit - maybe grapefuit? - and just the barest hint of hops in the finish. Pretty bad.

Bottle found in the back of my beer closet - probably from the LCBO, but I don’t remember for sure. Production date 10/08/2009 - obviously, it’s been there for a while. Clear gold with a small and quickly disappearing white head. Aroma - expected some serious skunkiness given that it’s 2.5 year old pale lager in a clear bottle, but surprisingly, it doesn’t smell that bad. A bit of wet cardboard, but also some lightly toasted malt, a bit of honey - no, make that golden syrup - and a faint grassiness. Flavour is also better than I expected given its age - although "better" is relative in this case, as it really doesn’t taste like much of anything, aside from some generic sweetness off the top, bit of sweet corn in the middle, and a super-quick, vaguely hopped finish. It’s not very good - but also not as bad as it could be.

Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of caramel,malt and grain. Taste is light sweet.

Sabor suave, creme pouco denso se desfaz rapidamente, aroma agradável, aspecto cristalino,

Bottle, this beer had a very clear pale yellow gold (straw) pour and made a one finger white head, the effervescence was quiet in the glass with a few flowing bubbles here and there, this beer did leave decent spots and fingers of lacing on the glass as I drank, the aromas were light malt with malt and syrup like sweetness, a touch of bread sweetness, corn, a little alcohol on the nose that I usually notice in cheaper lagers, maybe some faint grass hops if any, there were flavors of faint malt, malt sweetness with a little alcohol and alcohol sweetness in the background, corn, the mouth feel was light and a little watery, carbonation was medium or a bit more, a light tasting beer with the cheap lager alcohol that I usually smell and taste in this style of beer.

earthy, cooked vegetables, soy sauce, golden, hazy, white foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, heavily sour, umami, thin feel, light body, soft carbonation,

Botella de 500ml.Copa Pokal.Saboreada en mar´12.Color pajizo claro.Corona blanca,espuma de burbuja amplia que se disipa con rapidez.El olor a papel mojado revela signos de oxidación.Sin embargo se aprecia y lígero aroma de maltas dulces.Chispeante y amarga en la entrada.Sigue un moderado sabor malteado.Aguada en el intermedio. Cuerpo lígero y carbonatación desequilibrada.Final algo amargo.Una cerveza sosa.500ml.Pokal glass.Enjoyed on mar´12.Pale straw.Clear appearance.White crown.Large bubbled froth quickly dissipated.Wet paper aroma shows oxidation signs.An slightly sweet malt aroma is felt eventhough.Sparkling & bitter upfront then moderate malty flavor.Watery in the middle.Light body,unbalanced carbonation.Quite bitter finish.Bland beer.

500 ml bottle , color are pale amber. taste malts sweet with a bit hops. smelt malts nothing interesting smells a bit worse than average beer . its typical Russian light beer witch is imported in Baltic countries. overall is a bit less than average

Bottle: Vast white fluffy head onntop of a clear piss yellow color. Doesn’t look that inviting. Smell is pretty sweet like sweet malts and corn with pils malts. Taste malts, corn, honey, some fruit like apple, something mealy, some herbs and some hops. Malty light fruity aftertaste Low to medium carbo, light tingly mouthfeel, low to medium body and a watery texture.

Cerveja não tão. Aroma de orifíco amadeirado. A Skol da Rússia. Cerveja claramente popular e sem nenhuma identidade. Comum e enjoativa.