Zolotaya Bochka Svetloe

Brewed by Kaluzhskaya (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Kaluga, Russia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow to orange with a fully diminished white head. Mild hoppy to slight cornish aroma. Mild sweet flavour with a distinct acidic corn note and a growing bitterness into the finish. Ends dry and slight acidic.

This was brought to me by friends who visited Vladivostok. Beer information and Brewery information was all in Cyrilic, so I had to use Google Translate to provide it for the site. The beer came out of a 500 cl gold can, and poured a pale gold, with decent, midsized white head. It smelled cheap, nothing but yeast and perhaps adjuncts. Flavour was not very "crisp" or "clean". One picked up the taste of cheap ingredients, mainly. This, I assume is a Russian discount beer.

Bottle - 500ml. Boring golden body with a thin, vanishing white foamy head. Weak malty/hoppy taste with herbal notes. Taste is rather watery and finish is very short. Useless.

Same stuff going on here as with the classic. The aroma is slightly less floral but with the same cheap mixed grains. The appearance is pale gold and the flavor is like the aroma and metallic. The palate is thin. This is still not helping me get over my dislike of Russian beers.

Bottled. Pale golden,average head. Neutral nose with some vague fruitiness. Medium sweet with rounded mouthfeel and light body. Lightly mushy mouthfeel, low hop rate and bitterness. Lacks character, buthas some minor refreshing qualities.

BOTLLED ! Russian beers have to be drunk from bottles - no metallic taste of canned beers then ! nice lager, the best I took in Russia (of the many) hoppy with some fruity flavour, solid foam, nice bitter scent.

Bottle, an earthy malt aroma, slightly metallic. A reasonably smooth palate with a sweet malty flavour.

Pours light yellow with a mostly receding wispy white head. Aroma of sweet malt, honey, Taste is sweet, malty, unclean; typical Russian macro. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, slightly soapy with moderate carbonation.

Canned. Golden colour, mediumsized foamy white head. Weak, almost inexistable, hayish nose. Flavour is sweet hopyness with metallic hints. Also some perfumed caramel or similar in finish. Unbalanced and rather unclean. .

Can 500ml (brewed 01/2006)
Pale yellow, decent white head. Rubbery, cardboard malty nose, also a bit metallic. Medium-bodied, sweet malty. More stable than you could expect from 4% beer, but also very uninspiring.