Afanasiy Svetloe (Afanasy Tver Beer)

Brewed by OAO Brau Servis (Tver Brewing)
Style: Pilsener
Tver, Russia

Blonde colour. Aroma of bready malts, some cereal notes, slight grassiness. The medium body shows similar profile, slight mineral and a finish that turns more bitter and slightly saaz-y.

Aroma is grassy straw. Taste is similar a decent body with easy going though nothing special.

Bottle... Lightly hazed golden lager with a small, wispy, then creamy, white head. Excellent retention. Lactic, beefy and biscuity aroma. Fairly well-balanced flavor; medium sweetness and moderate, metallic bitterness. Medium-bodied with medium carbonation. Lengthy, bitter-sweet finish.

Interesting bottle, created using some non-Euclidean geometry. The beer? Not too bad. Nice golden body, carbonated, but bereft of head. The aroma is of fresh bread with a covering of herbal hops. The flavor is a sweet, grainy taste with perhaps just a touch of corn. It finished on a sweet note garnished with a dash of hop bitterness. Drinkable.

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Cloudy golden color with a very small dense milk colored head. Side of glasses is fully covered with bubbles. Bread and grains dominate the aromas with a touch of herbal hops. Decent malt and light vanilla flavors in the start, which suddenly take a turn and head down the slope out of bounds. Dry flowers and herbs seem to take over and both dry out the mouth and makes my face wince. To assertive in the finish otherwise not a bad brew.

I'll upload a photo ASAP. My neighbor (who homebrews and shares my love of beers) gave this one to me. The bottle looks like the Tver dark bottle...sort of pyramidal and tapering all the way to the top, with an octagonal base. Pours deep gold with a good head. Aroma of malt, yeast, slight citrus, and slight hops. Tastes very dry, somewhat metallic, with a dry citrus/hops finish. Also finishes vert creamy, with a hoppy/bitter last call.

Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy medium yellow. Aroma is lightly yeasty (cobwebs), lightly malty (toasted grain/bread, cereal), lightly hoppy (herbs, lemon), with light notes of clove and coriander. Flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Very strange little monkey here...the first thing that hit my brain when I took the first sniff was Belgian witbier...the tartness in the flavor continued that feeling. It does have some adjuncty smell, but kind of an interesting beer overall. Maybe this is what happens when an otherwise boring beer recipe is given a nifty yeast strain.

(Bottled, 1.0l plastic, BBE 10/2004) Pale yellow color with small head. Slightly sweet, candy-lemony aroma with a hint of cardboard. Corny-malty, slightly sweet and acidic flavor with cardboard. Quite dry, bitter finish. Light to medium-bodied, slightly sugary palate with medium carbonation. Quite strange brew - or a bad bottle.