Baltika 7 Eksportnoe (Export)

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

This is a pretty good pale lager that is fairly full-bodied for what it is. It is golden with a fairly big off-white head that steadily shrinks to a thin lasting wispy top. The aroma is sweetly flowery grain and hops with hints of pine and sulphur - just slightly more European than American smelling. The taste is grain with lightly herbal hops, mostly on the sweeter side with a light bitterness. There is a light mineral water quality that becomes noticeable after a few sips. The taste is like a fuller bodied, more flavourful basic American lager more than a European one. It’s basic, but good and very drinkable.

16.9oz bottle-pours a big foamy white head that laces and pale yellow color. Aroma is grain, lime. Tsaet is light malt/grain-almost caramel/sweet with some slickness to mouth feel, secondary lime/floral hops which helps this finish semi-dry. Easy drinking. OK/mild carbonation. Thanks Joe for sharing.

On Tap at the Baltic Fleet, Liverpool 29/04/2007 Floral and malt aromas. Some carbonation. Clear golden coloured hoppy and very malty with a little dryness in a crisp full malt finish.

500ml can. Bright golden colour with a misty shading of white bubbly foam across the top. Nice sweet honey aroma that sits nicely in the nose. Clean and dry taste that finishes well. Nice balance with a smooth aftertaste.

Golden colour, white head. Fairly sweet bready aroma with lots of fresh noble hop aroma balancing it off. Smells quite fresh. Herbal hop flavour with lots of fresh clean malts. A touch of sulfur on the nose. Much better than I expected and at 10 bucks a case, one of the better deals I’ve come across in a long time.

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.

The beer after its extraction from the 500ml green bottle resides in my glass a luminous gold with a diminutive frothy white head that evaporates quickly leaving a thin cover of lace upon the glass. Nose is archetypal lager sweet malt that is fresh, crisp and clean, with the start slightly sweet and the grain presence adequate but a bit light, top is fair to middling in its feel to the palate. Finish is pleasantly spicy as far as the hops go acidity moderate and the aftertaste desert bone dry, a passable beer, but nothing to get excited about.

Very pale yellow. Sweet corn nose. Nice large white head. for some reason, I am giving this higher marks then it deserves. I probably won’t revisit this one.