Baltika 7 Eksportnoe (Export)

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

Bottle. Golden with a small head.Cloying sweetness which wasn’t very pleasant. Very much Euro-fizz but reasonable if you are thirsty and not very fussy.

500ml bottle from Tesco - ABV 5.5% Straw with a ring of white head; light carbonation; light malty aroma; soft and acidic with a sweet malty flavour and some cardboard to finish. Not unpleasant.

Bottle from "Moskva" Rådhuspladsen København. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty ans light hoppy aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate. Nice pale lager.

Clear light yellow color with small head. Sweet malty flavor with some bitter hops.

Bottle from Tesco, Aylesbury, 08-07-09 consumed the same evening Pours golden with white head. Malty, sweet, grainy, soft in the mouth maybe a touch metallic at the edges, its almost ok. A5 A3 F4 P2 Ov9 2.3

Funny shaped green bottle with a pulltop cap. I haven’t seen one of these on a can in years and never on a bottle. Smells of sugary hay. Clear yellow, medium snow white head, sudsy adherence to the glass. Typical foreign lager flavor of honey and minimal grain, but not sugar sweet as I feared. Slight tart lemon on the palate. Not skunky at all and only a little too sweet. Не плохо!

500 ml can. From Tallinn, Estonia. Clear golden colour with medium-size white head. Aroma is some fruitiness, malts, hints of hoppiness and metallic. Some goes with the flavour. Some fruitiness (can’t say what), malts and crispy hops. I wasn’t expecting much of this, but I’m positively surprized.

Bottle, from Tesco, Grimsby. Pale gold, good lasting fluffy white head and moderate condition. Pleasant malty grain in the nose with a hint of hop fruitiness, soft and malty in the mouth with a suggestion of Germanic hops that remind me of some Franken festbiers, gentle chalky hop notes in the finish but still with lingering sweet graininess.