Baltika 7 Eksportnoe (Export)

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

(500ml bottle) Clear straw body with large white head. Aroma is medium sweet, corn, skunky. Taste is medium sweet, corn, bread, no bitterness. Light body with slight crispness.

Golden color,aroma of grain and light malt with a bit of sweetness and a slight tinniness.Flavor was on the poor side with a grainy light malt taste something medicinal and unpleasan,just not good at all.I recall when i was there that a colleague could barely get started on this one,i think he had 2 small sips and pitched the rest.I’m a bit more daring and finished mine.Still No good,not sure why but this one just had something that didn’t sit well with me in the taste.

Bottle from Super Saver. Gold pour with fluffy, 2-finger white heaf. The aroma is honey, corny pale malt, with the taste being the same, and a fairly smooth palate. Passable as a lawnmower beer.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear pilsener golden with a white head. Lovely and fresh aroma of hops. Very soft and smooth mouthfeel. Medium-bodied with a sweet maltiness and a discreet, hoppy finish. Quite a pleasant pale lager. 090506

Green bottle. Clear pale yellow with bubbly white head. Light, malty aroma. Tastes of grain and a bit of mash, touch of sweetness, touch of industry. Light body, somewhat crisp, ends on a slightly harsh note. Subdued. Really, not terrible for the style.

I think this bottle looks cool, and the beer itself looks quite nice too. same old smell,some but not alot of bitters, leaves good lacing.Taste is a bit weak but i kinda liked it. There are better lagers but a import for this price...in the end, a non offending beer that’s the best baltika so far...the porters a match though..try em all!

From a 1pt.9oz. narrow neck green bottle with a best before date on the back label. Made a average lager appearance, poured a clear pale golden yellow with a foamy white head that settled into a thin bubbly lacing, good carbonation. Had a grassy hop nose with a sweet dry pale grainy maltiness. A slick, smooth light-ish medium bodied mouth feel, average drinklability. Dry spicy, grassy hoppy crispness upfront, mellow in it’s bitterness, a dry, sweet grainy maltiness and a dry, crisp grainy finish with some lingering metallic malt notes. Well, Great Lakes and DAB have nothing to fear from this Dortmunder, like all Baltika beers, average, drinkable at a cheap price.

(bottle) Pale yellow with rapidly fading small head. Almost no aroma. Flavor has hints of pepper, but has a bit of skunky finish.