Krasniy Vostok Klassicheskoe (Red East Classic)

Bottle from John’s Market in Portland, OR. Brassy gold color with a minimal white head. Not much aroma. Medium body with fizzy, creamy carbonation. Flavor is rather spicy, like pepper or ginger, though not strong or distracting this is the principal taste impact. Finish is quite pleasant. If the bitter/ spice is hop, I’m not familiar with the type. Super spicy noble hop? Nice change from the usual East Euro lagers.

The beer pour an amber color with a bit of head. The beer smells of yeast and malt and hops. The taste is more on the malt with a sutle sweet finish. Body is thin but not watery. A better version of Bud. A clean finish. easy drinking

Pale pour...light yellow straw collor with light fluffy head. The nose is cheap...sweet malt and adjuncts. Flavor is typical Eastern-European lager...metallic pale sweet malts and adjuncts...nothing I’d care to ever repeat.

Clear golden coloured body with a very thin white head. Aroma of alcohol, malt, metal, blood and corn - nothing pleasant at all. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong malt flavour with metallic tastes fades to a mild finish with some sweetness and some other bitter sugars. Overall, not as horrible as the ’extra’, but not a great beer either. I’d pass on this next time, but when I’m here in Oklahoma and looking for something new - there is only so many options. I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from Sam’s Warehouse Liquors in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 23-January-2008.

Bottle. Usual pale lager body-straw yellow with a fading foamy head. Nose-old malt, light dust, light macroness. Taste-lots of clean fruit esters, milky/lactic mouthfeel, lime, medium sweetness, sugary, plum, white grape skins, very light skunk masked by the aggressive sweetness, corn water. Tastes like a well done macro that was sweetened with artificial sweetener.