Beliy Medved v Rozliv

Brewed by Pivovar Moskva (Efes Russia)
Style: Pale Lager
Moscow, Russia

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

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Bottled 500ml. -Fancy clear bottle. Golden coloured medium sized white head, some corn in the nose. Sweet malty, cardboard and corn with hint of grass in rather short and watery finish. Not good.

500ml bottle (Stockmann, Tallinn)
3+ Hmmm, it’s that Moscow taste - reminds me of Afanasy Zolotoe. There’s something not right about it, but it’s hard to pinpoint. I can imagine an industrial process that takes malted grain and returns this, but I’m not sure I’d call it ’brewing’
1 Clear glass bottle, and pale fizzy lager with a scummy head - there’s only one score in town for that kind of mother.
2 Sickly, sweet. Not sickly sweet, just sick sickly, and sweet sweet. Not bland enough to be something I’d ever want to drink in any circumstance. Oh christ, it reacts badly with the Haldirams Nimbu Masala snacks I’m eating, and there’s clear puke in the taste now in the retronasals. Experiment repeated - oh fuck, that’s puke, I nearly gagged *real* hard.
1 Pissy fizzy pale lager, was never going to be above 2. But that puke continues in the finish.
4 I’m now instating the Nimbu Masala test as a vital component in any pale lager tasting, the way it isolated the puke was astonishing. Originally, I thought this was a crap 1.4, but with that much puke it’s invited itself to an elite band of "there’s no way a sane human being should ever want to brew or drink this". It’s a good job Russia doesn’t have an alcoholism problem, as this beer will clearly have no market, and die out soon.

500ml Bottle - Pale golden with a white head. Grain, corn and grass in the aroma. Sweet and malty taste with grass, corn and slightly chemical element. Hardly any bitterness.

0,5L bottle. I believe "v rozliv" means "draught". Pale golden body. Head is nice at first but then it’s gone. Aroma is weak and grainy, taste is light and malty with bad papery tasting "hoppiness" which is strong enough to become annoying. Has an industrial feel to it.