Baltika 9 Krepkoe (Strong)

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

Serve in Lager glass

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Average at best. One dimensional malt taste, the abv is apparant. Whatever.

50cl bottle. Poured a golden beer with minimal white head, medium persistence but with good lacing. Aroma is malty, slightly hopped, corny and sweet. Flavour is sweet, bready, moderate alcoholic, with a final slightly bittery. Carbonation is medium. Texture is oily. Body is medium to high.

Big plastic bottle. Mostly clear light yellow pour with a small white head. Aroma is corn syrup and a touch of dark fruit. Medium-light palate. Pretty nasty taste of syrupy corn/fruit....bleh - one ounce into this, and the other 50 oz are going to be shared with my sink.

Hazy pale straw color; Medium body; Aroma of sweet malt, yeast, & some floral; Flavor of sweet malt, corn syrup, grain, and some fruit; Some alcohol at the finish; Overall, too much of a chemical taste.

51 oz plastic soda bottle from a shaker. Pours an amber color with no head. Aroma is syrup. Taste is toxic waste and booze. Honestly, between 2 friends, we could not come close to finish this monstrosity. A complete drain pour. Avoid at all costs. WHO PUTS A BEER IN A PLASTIC 2 LITER BOTTLE?

Pours a clear yellow with a small white head. Aroma is sweet malt and malt syrup. Taste is also sweet malt with barley and alcohol. Next to no bitterness. M’eh.

(bottle 7/14/11 at Rendezvous). Clear gold color. Medium off white head. Light sweet malt aroma. Flavor of the same with light bitterness. Avg duration. Very light bitter finish. Thin texture. Moderate carbonation. Fair lacing.

the first time I had something like this was in 1988 in a mountain suburb of Kocise Slovak Republic. The World Cup was going on we were also drinking shots of some lighter fluid they called "rum". good lord. Anyway, this was poured out of a big bottle warm, into a tumbler. No head, big infrequent bubbles. no lacing, smell corn, dandelion, dry wine. Taste sour corn, cheap Chardonnay, white pepper, almost no carbonation. gaggy corn syrup. Yuck. A ton of hops would make this a perfect triple IPA substitute...yuck

This horrible abomination of mankind came in a single, 51-ounce plastic bottle purchased for $2.29. We drank them while wandering the cold streets of Chicago in order to get liquored up before the Dead Milkmen concert. This beer tastes like industrial waste, rotting raspberries, swamp water, molten PVC piping, caulk, and sugar syrup all mixed together in a mildew-covered bathtub. We decided to ditch these awful beers and just waste all our money at the bar instead.

I do not understand these so-called "Strong Pale Lager/ Imperial Pils" whose taste essentially is composed of sweet and sour malt, alcohol and bitter hops.