Beliy Medved Bezalkogolnoe

Brewed by OAO Amstar (Efes Russia)
Style: Low Alcohol
Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Small offwhite coarse head. Light brown body with carbonation. Sweet grain-soup and boiled vegetable aroma, with notes of wet cardboard. Taste is mainly sweetish wet cardboard, turning into powerful cardboard soup at the end, with an awful boiled cabbage off-taste. Dreadful. Didn’t finish, even though there is no alcohol, and I’m thirsty. One of the worst beers I’ve had. (0.5l bottle.)

500ml bottle (Araxes, Kalamaja)
4+ On pouring, a very weetabixy grainy aroma, but close up there’s tons of iron, old pennies, and stewed prunes.
2 Deep orange, fizzy brief head.
5 It’s just sugary weetabix juice! Fortunately I love weetabix, and would always have it with loads of sugar!
2 Thin palate, fizzy. Cold, it’s refreshing I’m sure, and has enough flavour to survive being cooled. Very brief finish, alas.
8 It’s kind of lacking beer, but low alcohols often have that. The aroma was its weakest attribute, it quenched my thirst pretty well.

Thanks to Jef to bring me some Russian beers. Amber coloured, I got a medium head, but poured it in from a height. The head even holds for some time, and sticks to the glass. The smell is... bad... Vegetables, grain, unpleasant. I almost didn’t want to taste anymore. The taste is like the smell, bad, a bit like some bad tea or something. Please give me a wodka to flush this one away.

Bottle. Amber color, grassy aroma. Very foamy. Grainy sweet flavor. Possibly, it is beer.

500ml Bottle - Golden in colour. Grainy aroma with hints of weetabix. Sweet and grainy taste with hints of weetabix and apple.

Golden color, little white head. Sweet, mildly apple and malty aroma. Ends with mildly dry mouthfeel and lasting apple flavor. Thin bodied.

Bottled. 6.8 Plato. Pale straw colour, dense head. Sour and hoppy aroma, an OK dryness and bitterness in the palate. The taste is forgettable next day.