Baltika Zhigulevskoe (Zhiguljovskoje)

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle. Pours gold with a big bubbled white head. Aroma is just like the taste, cereal with honey. Sweet and mellow with a touch of toast. If you didn’t know this was a beer, you may not think it was. It may have the thinnest of bodies I’ve had in a long while.

Pour is golden yellow with a thin soapy white head...smell is sweet corn and slightly starchy, like a wet raw potato...thin watery mouthfeel...taste is lightly grainy and sweet with some luscious corn notes...blech....

Bottle. Pours clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma is slightly hoppy with some malts and hay. A pretty thin body covers a light fresh taste of grain, hay and pilsner malt. Easy to drink. Fairly good on a hot summer day.

Bottle@Home. Sweet corn and apple aroma but not unpleasant. Yellow color, white head, good lace. Very sweet for a lager, light bitter, grainy, hints of apple. Medium body and mouthfeel. Not really bad.

This is a beer for those who say that there is "nothing to write about" when reviewing a pale lager. The nuances of nasty flavors in this are actually rather complex, and worthy of more than a pithy "this sucks." Medium towards pale yellow, decent lasting white head, left pretty good lacing. Appearance not really bad. Aroma is very grainy with a nice dose of adjuncts, my guess would be rice is the main culprit here. Flavor is a bizarre mix of cloying sweetness, off flavored grains that have a decided cardboard note, a hint of damp hay, and a faint chemical note that I can’t put my finger on. Carbonic bite actually helps reduce the sweetness. And now that I’ve bashed this beer with little mercy, I find myself forced to say that it was a bit better than I was expecting. Purchased at the Kroger near where I work that has this bizarre "Wall ’O Baltika."

Bottle. Clear golden colour with medium creamy white mostly lasting head. Malty aroma. Sweet bitter flavor. Watery palate.

Moderate malty aroma. Average, frothy, white head. Good lacing. Mostly lasting longevity. Clear, yellow body. Light bitter flavor. Light to medium palate.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Week slightly bready light malty aroma. Week light bitter flavor. Short strange slightly acetic finish. Watery palate.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear golden with a very white head leaving some lacing. Unclean aroma of brewing cereal. Medium body with sweet malts and brewing cereal. Short and dry finish. But overall fairly decent considering it being a Russian Pale Lager. 250308

Clear golden with medium short lasting head. Grassy aroma with caramel notes. Sweet flavor with grassy and cardboard notes.