Rinkuškiai Zhigulyovskoye

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

This may be my favorite of the low alc beers from this brewer. Clear dull dark straw pour with minimal wisp of white head. Corn and sweet vanilla with a little bit of diacetyl in the flavor. Light citrus. Pretty much just like many of the others, but this one isn’t sickly sweet.

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.

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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.5 liter brown bottle from Royal Liquors in Kansas City. No notch on label for freshness date. a clear gold with no head and light body. Gave a grainy, slightly astringent flavor with a mellow pale malt paired with a slight hoppy flavor and bitterness. Very non-distinctive.

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.

Pour is a bright gold with a small white head. Aroma is part skunk and part malt. Flavor is somewhat grainy and very watery. Typical eastern euro lager and nothing great.

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.

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.