Arsenalnoe Krepkoe (Extra Lager)

Brewed by Baltika Brewery (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: European Strong Lager
St. Petersburg, Russia

500ml bottle. I admit it. I’m scared. Pale golden color. Big industrial alcohol aroma prepares you for the factory fresh, sugary sweet death juice that is Apcehaabhoe. Brutal and harsh, but still has a somewhat ok fruity aftertaste that tricks you into darign another sip. Avoid at all costs.

Dark straw to golden color. Fluffy, diminishing white head. Grainy and DMS laden aromas. Hints of light cotton candy and alcohol as well. Sweet raw sugar flavors. Some higher alcohols and brown sugar and sweet corn flavors as well. Another Euro strong lager meant for that after work buzz.

Nose and initial taste of sweet honey. Bright and hazy yellow color with a much fuller body than american ’lagers’. I’d much rather drink one of these than two americans, if you know what I mean. Definitely better than Baltika ’9’, less fiery and more drinkable. For a better read I agree with, see ’Cornfield’ below.

This beer is hardly has any aroma. Its appearance is a golden, nearly opaque colour. Hardly any head. The flavour is sweet and though the beer is watery, doesn’t taste like water per se, though is easily drinkable, despite the higher ABV of 7.0.

Bottled. Deep golden, rich head. Pea soup aroma. Sweet and fruity, medium bodied with notes of diesel. An unrefined yet somewhat swillable get-drunk-fast lager.

1.5 litre plastic bottle
Amber colour, almost no head at all. Sweet toffee and liquorice aroma. Sticky sweet with faint notes of toffee and not-so-faint notes of alcohol. Most of the bottles content ended up in the kitchen sink.

Pale beer with a full malt taste and strong aftertaste, harmonious hop bitterness and clearly expressed aroma.
Or so they say. What we have here is a drinkable enough Mocne, somewhat oily to the palate. It’s bright gold with a large head that rapidly reduces to a film. The aroma is sweet and sugary but displays some pale malt, dried grasses, and tin. The malty sweetness in the flavor is a bit bready, but the hop bitterness (along with the metallica) isn’t enough to hold it in check. Serve this one very cold and drink it very fast.

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Name: Arsenalnoe Krepkoe
Date: 09/05/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

clear gold, big white head, sweet candy malt aroma, rich sweet corn flavor, touch of bitterness fails to balance,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4