Baltika 5 Zolotoe (Golden)

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

Bottle. Pours a beautiful golden with a short-lasting head. Kind of a skunky aroma and taste with a faint hint of hops in the taste. Sweet finish. Forgettable.

Bottle pours out a clear gold topped with a white head. Light sweet grain and a little very little hops. Not bad but still not that good. Thanks BückDich

Really isgutig in appearance, it reminded me the Bit Burguer GOlden. t was very strong but drinkable in the end.

500 ml bottle. Slightly hazy, pale golden with a thin white head. Fairly clean pale malt aroma with a touch of honey. It’s pretty tough to tell the difference between the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7... but when they’re in good condition they aren’t bad. A bit of bready sweetness and light citrus. Might be a bit underattenuated.

I usually don’t care for pale lagers much, but this is probably the best one I’ve had so far. It had more flavor and aroma then I would have expected. Very malty, and very pleasing.

500ml bottle dated 14.09.06, best by 14.09.07. Crystal clear gold with a white head. Very sweet corny grain nose, lame honey notes. Sweet corn and caramel flavors. Very mild grass in there. Pretty much crap.

Come on guys, how can you not like a name like Baltika? It’s right down there with what makes us different than a woman! Clear 12 oz bottle with a twist off cap. I guess twist off caps have even made it to the Russian front in Siberia. At first when I popped of this lid, I anticipated and thought I smelled some skunk, only because clear bottle and all. But no, it was more like a clean aroma. After you pour it into the glass, the fragrance turns into a sweet honey perfume, very attractive. This is definitely one of the better smelling lagers I’ve encountered. The appearance of this brew is just plain old ubiquitous pale yellow american lager. Taste is simply clean and crisp, exactly what a pale lager should be. Sweetish hints linger in the mouth after each sip. No head on this stuff, just a girdle around the inside edge of the glass on to of the brew. After a few slugs a mild industrial feel, that I really don’t want to call bitter, coats the inside of the mouth and it builds with each sip. No corn apparent in this brew like so many of it’s american counterparts. Finish does have a sort of mild metallic processed back of throat linger that hangs for a while. However, this bitterness is not hops nor malts, it’s just mildly annoying.

16.9 oz. bottle. Pours a clear gold with a white sudsy head that completely disappeared after a few sips. Very light aroma of caramel. The flavor is pretty bland with some caramel and a bit of cereal grains noted. Slightly sweet. It lists hops among the ingredients, but I did not not detect any hops presence in this beer. Really not a bad beer, just not that that great either.