Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

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

50cl bottle. Pours out a pale golden colour with a white head. Not much aroma, but a little sweet and touch of ammonia? Flavour was just thin and a hint of hops. Not great.

Liked this the first time, second time afew things changed.Pour from 500ml bottle with gold colour and good head,,nice aroma hoppy,fresh same with taste.Lacks full good bitter and has a sour finish to spoil.

Thanks to ghawener. Sweet and skunky, a typical latin american pale lager. Maybe this is why russians are best known for vodka.

Bottle: Bought in Mexico. Thin, watery, slight hops. What does the 3 stand for, still have the 5, 7, 9 and 0 to go.

Pale yellow pour with a small to medium white head. Grainy sweet aroma, maybe some faint floral character. LIht body, rather thin, but not watery at least. Flavor starts off sweet, and the light hopping does bring a soft bitterness and a marginally dry finish.

Pours light and clear, deeper color than most American pale lagers, has some hop aroma, kind of grassy, but generally weak smell, tastes a little sweet, sort of neutral except for a little hop bitterness. Not much body, not much at all.

Clear pale yellow body with a large frothy white head. Sweet corn, grain, slight skunk aroma and a touch of grassy hops. Sweet grainy honey flavor with light grassy hop hints. Light body with fairly high carbonation and a smooth but grainy finish.

Lets go to Russia! Appearance of pale yellow american lager when poured from a 17 oz bottle. Nice head at first but then it fades rapidly to a teafroth. Taste is typical american pale lager but has it’s own unique spin. Some yeasty pale lager aromas. Taste is relatively acceptable for a lager lover. Cannot really taste too much hops as described but that is a good point. When I refill the glass the foam hangs. Some industrial , possibly plastic bite on the finish, but overall not bad. One of the better baltikas I’ve had. Probably on par with Baltika 5. Finish is lagerlike and non assuming. Does not possess any of the industrial processed adjunct off flavors of many american cheap lagers.