Baltika Kuler (Cooler)

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

Bottle. High but quickly disappearing white fluffy head. Clear light yellow body. Weak and sweet aroma of what I suspect is corn. Pretty watery flavor with a bit of lemon and a good deal of carbonation. Short aftertaste.

Clear bottle with the pull cap, clear pale golden body. Aroma of grass and cereal, sweetish malts veer towards corn. Taste is generic pale malt, sweet but not cloying with a floral ending. Watery and thin with a little crispness. Very inoffensive, not earning points for flavor, but then again, not losing them for off-flavors, booziness, or that "dirty" Baltika feel. Actually, I’d call this pretty good for what passes for a Pale Lager these days.

bottle: tastes weak. lacking any real definition or individual taste. (mass produced taste)

In the ridiculous clear glass bottle from Hy Vee CB. This is one Gen X stylin’ beer. It has a long narrow easy to hold shape and a retro Mickey’s big Mouth pull ring cap. The label is a clear plastic sticker. This beer is remarkable for what it is not: 1) It is not skunked. 2) It does not suck. 3) It is not expensive. In fact, for the super low price, this is not a bad backyard/lakefront/tailgating brew. I really love how the cap has the name "cooler" written in cyrillic. Unlike the photo to your left, my bottle has the word Cooler in english. Pale yellow with a poofy white head, this is very mildly hopped and has none of the typical crappy adjunct aftertastes.

bottle (750mL maybe). Used this to play War (loser does a shot of beer). This beer is shittttttty. No way I would want to drink this over Natty even...

Name: Cooler
Date: 04/06/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Classic City

Appearance: clear dark yellow, fine white head,
Aroma: light sweet cereal aroma with a hint of floral hops,
Flavor: sweet grain flavor, hint of floral hops, light lasting bitterness,

Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.7/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: 4

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Bottle. Medium sized white head that was fizzy and mostly diminished, fair amount of lacing, transparent, fizzy carbonation, and a yellow hue. The nose was sweet and malty and ditto for the flavor. Smooth, watery mouthfeel and light-medium in body. Lacks character, flavor and left me not wanting this one again. Next!