Rinkuškiai Zhigulyovskoye

Brewed by Rinkuškiai
Style: Pale Lager
Biržu raj., Lithuania

Pours gold with a fizzy bubbly head. Smells of apples, caramel, straw, some hints of pepper and citrus. Taste is unassuming and watery with some corn sweetness on the end.

A drinkable but passable lager. Yellow with a creamy head that quickly fades to scum, the aroma has an initial flash of skunk that drifts away to be replaced by grainy malts, somWehat buttery, with a grassy, herbal hopping. Sweet and a bit buttery, it finishes on a moderatgely bitter, grassy hop note.

Not one of Rinkuškiai’s best. I recommend the Žaibo.

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Bottle: Golden color, thick head, nice lacing. Nose of hops, alcohol and metallic pilsner malt. The flavor is zesty and metallic. Light on bitterness for a pilsner. Dusty, hmm. Bland and lagery I guess.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is light to medium yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (grain, husks), lightly hoppy (flowers), with a note of soap. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter, husky, unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Very soapy and grainy. Unpleasant.

I got a 500 ml bottle of this at Lukas Liquors in Kansas City. A dark gold body with a frothy white head. The aroma is sweet with perfume and apples. There is also some funky leather and stale herbs. The taste is fairly herbal with some oregeno and some potatoes. This has a little bit of a sweet finish. A unique and interesting lager. Not bad.

Killearn Liquors, Tallahassee, Fl - 500 ml bottle. Light golden, pale pour with a soapy white head that leaves a goiod bit of lacing. Grainy aroma with some grassy and skunky Euro notes. Typical Eastern Euro lager flavor, hints of honey sweetness, a bit of corn, some back end steeliness in the finish. Thinnish Mouthfeel. Drinkable.

Acrid, cheap malt liquor aroma. Decent bottle, featureless yellow beer with a thin head. Starchy, flat, dry, bland. Medium to medium-light hopping which is mostly evident in the unpleasantly tart finish. Wisps of vanilla here and there are the only redeeming qualities.

Bottle. Clear golden coloured with a rather large white head. Grainy with notes of metal, malt, fruit, bread, and hops.