Krasniy Vostok Klassicheskoe (Red East Classic)

Brewed by Pivzavod AO Krasniy Vostok (Efes Russia)
Style: Pale Lager
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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UPDATED: DEC 27, 2004 Sampled fresh in Kazan at a KB beer tent

Golden colour with artificial, bleached head. Minty, sagey hop aroma - like a mix of Chuvash and noble hops - with a slightly caramelly malt note. Pale and caramelly malt notes lead things off with minty hop notes over top. Malty finish.

Bottle. Usual pale lager body-straw yellow with a fading foamy head. Nose-old malt, light dust, light macroness. Taste-lots of clean fruit esters, milky/lactic mouthfeel, lime, medium sweetness, sugary, plum, white grape skins, very light skunk masked by the aggressive sweetness, corn water. Tastes like a well done macro that was sweetened with artificial sweetener.

Bottled(500ml). -very thin brew, grassy and slight malty aroma with strong metallic and unpleasant lasting herbal notes, dry watery finish

The beer pour an amber color with a bit of head. The beer smells of yeast and malt and hops. The taste is more on the malt with a sutle sweet finish. Body is thin but not watery. A better version of Bud. A clean finish. easy drinking

Cloudy dark yellow color with a medium head. Strong aroma of apples in a barn. Gernerally a grassy taste with a less than savory metallic tang on the finish. I’ve had far worse swill that this.

Pale pale yellow/gold, pours with a frothy soapy head and leaves no lacing. Aroma is sweet malts and some alcohol (? - it’s only 5%, shouldn’t smell alcohol). Taste is not horrible, but not something you’d really want to drink again - prickly carbonated sweet thin malts, dusty and slightly metallic at the finish.

Bottle from John’s Market in Portland, OR. Brassy gold color with a minimal white head. Not much aroma. Medium body with fizzy, creamy carbonation. Flavor is rather spicy, like pepper or ginger, though not strong or distracting this is the principal taste impact. Finish is quite pleasant. If the bitter/ spice is hop, I’m not familiar with the type. Super spicy noble hop? Nice change from the usual East Euro lagers.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, husks), lightly hoppy (flowers, herbs), with a note of soap. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter, slightly husky, slightly unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. The usual industrial character, with perhaps a touch more hop aroma than normal.

Glass Bottle from Belmont Party. Poured a clear pale color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate grainy hop aroma. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration. I would not recommend this to a freind.

A hazy dark yellow beer with a disappearing white head. The aroma contains loads of straw while the flavor is contains notes of caramel and metal and a quite bitter end, but the body is thin.