Yantar Svitle

Brewed by Yantar Brewery (Ukraine) (Sun-InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Mykolayiv, Ukraine

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

comes in a big 1l plastic bottle, that’s not promising at all. Pours with almost no head and a dark clear gold colour. Has no aroma at all to my nose.Taste isn’t so bad, slight grainy sweetness and no alcohol in there. Dry finish. For a beer in a plastic bottle, it’s all right.

Rating #601, bottle from a Produkty in Sevastopol, Ukraine

I got this one when asking for a crappy ukrainian beer to try it all, and in that sense I was not dissapointed. Apperance is clear yellow without any head, and aroma is only some light malts, wet grains and almost nothing at all. Taste is flavourless, water, carbonation and a light touch of grains. Thin as water. Is this beer? I didn’t rate it completely to to bottom, because as there is no flavors at all, there are no bad flavours either.

Süßlich herber und prickelnder Antrunk. Erfrischend, nicht sehr aromatisch. Etwas süßlich und wenig zitrusartig, im Mittelteil leicht hopfig-herb. Im hinteren Teil kommt das Malz leicht zum tragen, auch dieses ist eher mild, glücklicherweise aber nicht wässrig. Im Abgang hopfiger, weich, erneut hellmalzig, diesmal aber noch etwas milder. Zuletzt etwas nach Banane. Nicht schlecht!

0,5 l bottle as a gift.
Poured pale yellow with a small lacing white head. Aroma and flavor of an easy drinkable and average, dull lager with sourish yeast, some malt background, cardboard and lively carbonation. Nothing exciting...

Bottle looks good, the beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts hoppy and dry, quite metallically. Finish a bit unbalanced, still metallically, modest sourish-dry. Still okay.

500ml bottle from a river kiosk in Kiev. Clear golden body with a few patches on the surface. Pale malty aroma with fruity notes coming through. Freshness of citrus fruits in flavour with a noticeable touch of bitterness. Very dry mouthfeel. Drinkable (Kiev, 08.07.2009).

Bottle, 4.4%. Clear golden colour. White head. The flavour has some plastic at first, not too unpleasant, though. The plastic gets milder after a few sips, leaving a rather malty beer. Medium bitterness, getting a bit rough at the end.

Bottle - 500ml. Piss-like pale yellow body with instant-fading white foamy head. Very thin malty/hoppy aroma with some corny hints. Taste is rather watery and carbonation is agressive. Finish is non-existent. This is like drinking carbonated water.