Rinkuškiai Zhiguly Grande 9,5

Brewed by Rinkuškiai
Style: European Strong Lager
Biržu raj., Lithuania

Golden-bronze colour with no head. Aroma of alcohol, toasted grain, and some DMS. The flavour is balanced between very sweet caramel/toast malts and a stiff woody alcohol finish. (He said "stiff woody"). It’s reasonably drinkable for a high-test Eurobrew.

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is dark yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, cereal, husks), trace hops (herbs), with light notes of alcohol, honey, and apple, hint of wood. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter, husky. Medium body, watery texture, lively/fizzy carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Honeyish but husky.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent typically carbonated orange colored body and a good lacing. The mild aroma was malty and grassy. The semi-thick mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt and orange. Not one that I would buy again.

Imagine dumping a pack of Sweet’n’Low into a glass of tonic water. Sampled at Stevofest, and tronraner is the responsible for bringing it.

Bright, deep amber-gold with little head, short-lived. Sweet-smelling, fruity but insipidly sweet cereal aromas. Flavors are the same: plastic. Sickeningly sweet palate. Tastes strong, sweet, alcoholic, and masculine. Blech, get drunk fast please.

The aroma is metallic and alcoholic with malt and a touch of grass. The appearance is golden with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma and somewhat astringent. The palate is thin. I wouldn’t drink this again even if it was available where I live.

a slightly hazy orange beer with a small creamy yellowish head that fades and has the appearance of gasoline. alcohol, moldy basement, candy sugar aroma. flavor is very sweet with plenty of sugary corn flakes, a hint of spice(?) and a very warming finish. medium bodied. boozy.

Thanks to tronraner for bringing this one to stevo’s. Well, I’ll have to be honest, this is not a great beer, but I found it to be no more offensive than an American swill Lager. Thin fleeting head of white over a pale yellow body. The aroma is largely acetaldehyde with some honey. The flavor is sweet with no balance from the hops if they are even there at all. Drinkable, but very one dimensional and a bit sweet.