Slavutych Pivo (Slavutich Premium)

Brewed by Slavutych (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

can 5.3%. Poured clear pale amber with a chunky white head. Light sweet grassy aroma. Light and malty. Chalky bready flavour. Light metallic bitter aftertaste.

On tap. Pale yellow with a thin white head. Not much aroma -- some malty sweetness and grassy hops. Flavor offers more of the same, plus some lemon, with almost no hop bitterness. Refreshing but rather forgettable.

My first Ukrainian beer during 10 days of river cruise along the Dnieper River in the country. Available on tap from Panorama bar on the cruise ship Taras Shevchenko. Pours a slowly fading white head over a clear, straw-golden body. Good amount of lacework on the glass. Weak smell of pale lager malts. Mild flavour of lemony hops lingering through the aftertaste. Lively carbonated. Thirst quenching and refreshing (mid-July 09).

Golden yellow with a small white head, very low carbonation. Bread and butter aroma with some grain, corn, plenty of metal. I taste some light grain, lemon, corn.

Bottle, 5.0%. Very pale yellow colour. Small plasticky white head. Citric flavour. Almost like a lemon beer.

Greeted with a horrible first whiff. Off to a good start! Standard gold Euro lager with some stuff floating around when dumped out produced a large white rocky cap that has left the dirtiest glass that I’ve seen in a long time. After the head settled down it left a crouton sized chunk bobbing around like a little beer iceberg. The aroma is better now - still stinky - not skunky, more pee like. Grainy malts and some sweetness...very standard, aside from the pee, the chemicals and the brutal initial fumes that pretty much killed this beer one second in. Taste is pretty much what one would expect from a beer in this style that they expect nothing from - Grains, obvious alcohol (and only 5.3%!!), some chemicals and a solid bitterness. Some woody flavour as well. Overall the mouthfeel isn’t that bad, but I’ve been left with a crappy chemical taste in my mouth. Thin bodied, highly carbonated and intitial bitter leftovers. Some malty finish - a pretty rough beer overall that is pretty much a waste of your money even if you bought it just to drink a brew from Ukraine or just to get a review in. On principle, I drank the whole thing although I really didn’t want to. The gas is incredible. CRAP BEER.

a - not much there a - Light and golden f - kind of sweet, but not much p - fizzy o - even though it is 5.3 it tastes like a canadian light.

Ukraine. Typical eastern European lager malt and hop profile. Very clear light straw/golden with small white head. Touch of lacing on the glass. Malty grainy and honey like sweetness. Finish is fairly sweet with a touch of residual spicy hop bitterness.