Baltika 0 Bezalkogolnoe (Non-Alcoholic)

Brewed by Baltika Brewery (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Low Alcohol
St. Petersburg, Russia

It’s golden with a small, white head. The aroma has notes of mash, malt, oil and metal. The flavor is sweet with notes of mash, malt and light metal, and it’s not very enjoyable.

Pours with barely any head, and an average yellow colour. Aroma is of wet bread, just like any other low-alc out there. Flavour is wet grains with a dry finish. Okay carbonation. Very boring.

This is a well made NA. Good aromamanship with a crisp malty flavor. Nice finish. Not bad at all.

Bottled. A light golden beer with a thin lazing white head. The aroma has notes of cardboard as well as a light touch of malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and cardboard. THe body is thin.

A few bottles paired with food at the river boat Taras Shevchenko. Light straw coloured body. Tiny head, but great lacing on the glass. Smell of hard water with hints of corn. Flavourless, except some mild sweetness. Medium carbonation level. Clean tasting. Very thin in the mouth. An ordinary low alcohol beer with no off taste (Dnieper River, Ukraine, mid-July 09).

Pale yellow of color with a very weak white head. An aroma of DMS, butter and cooked meat. A thin flavor with butter and DMS.

Bottle from the Plainfield, IL, Binny’s Beverage Depot: I don’t understand the low ratings on appearance, it pouring a clear golden body with lively carbonation supporting a tall foamy head... in other words, a nice beer pour. The other low ratings I can appreciate. The aroma, after the initial skunk blow-off, is fresh white bread with a touch of metallica. It’s watery with a very light flavor of toasted grains and stale honey. The finish is wet.

500 ml can. From Tallinn, Estonia. Golden yellow colour with white head. Malty and toasted bread aroma. Honey, malts and cardboard in flavour. Quite watery but not hopeless for n/a beer.