Baltika 7 Eksportnoe (Export)

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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Bottle from th LCBO (Baltika gift-pack). Pale yellow with a creamy white head. Expected a ton of skunk from the aroma due to the green bottle, but I guess keeping it in the dark since I bought it did the job, as it just has a mild aroma of vaguely sweet malt and slight hint of grass. Tons of carbonation gives a crisp and prickly mouthfeel. Flavour starts as a pretty standard inoffensive Eurolager, but develops some faint burnt plastic notes as a warms up. Meh.

500 ml bottle. Pours a clear light yellow with almost no head. Skunky, grainy, and light hoppy aroma. Crisp carboard taste. I’ve had better low alcohol beers...

Somewhat sweet and malty, with a weird pear-like twinge to it. Head doesn’t last, aroma is weak as anything. Poor effort, to say the least.

500ml bottle. Clear straw body with a decent head. Aroma is grainy, swamp, some sourness, hay, a hint of hops. Taste is crisp, but with an unpleasant sourness, a touch of herbal tones, booze and cereal sweetness. To be avoid.

500ml bottle served cold in a shaker. Hint of corn in the aroma, Sparkly pee yellow colour with a thick white head. Some slight sweet cereal flavour, like corn flakes. Light bodied, thin, could be one of the better examples of Holiday Euroswill, but overbearingly fizzy carbonation spoils the experience.

0,5l bottle. Clear golden color. Medium white, fizzy head, stays. Sweet malty aroma, faint metallic. Sweetish flavor, slightly bitter. Quite refreshing.

Very light, very clear. Distant aroma of grain and some grassy hops. Very thin watery mouthfeel with a very mild amount of bitterness.

Light bready aroma, clear pale golden color with white pillow head. Light malty flavor with smooth easy finish.

Poured golden wih no real head tasted very light and borimg npt a whole.lot there hut nice and refreshing

500 mL green bottle. Really cool cap. Things go downhill from there. No off flavours, but nothing to distinguish it either.

Green 500ml rip top bottle (5.5% ABV) obtained from my local Aldi supermarket. Brewed 17 Aug 2010, best before 17 Aug 2011, reviewed and drank 12 Dec 2010. Looked fine in a ’Corsendonk’ stemmed tulip glass. Good large snowy white head of tight bubbles. Very light golden body, typical clear and clean look this style is renouned for. No smell, some cereal esters if you sniff hard enough, along with dried hay. Refreashing and thirst quenching, but not really tastey in any way. Dry rather than sweet, but again not really dry either.