Yarpivo Elitnoye (Premium)

Formerly brewed at Baltika-Yaroslavl (Baltika - Baltic Beverages Holding)
Style: Premium Lager
Yaroslavl, Russia

Name: Yarpivo Premium (Elitnoye)
Date: 06/01/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

pale yellow, scant head, sweet candy malt aroma, light malt flavor, touch of hops, nice bitter finish, underlying sweetness from start to finish

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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Grainy-grassy character. A little fizzy. Quite thin. Higher alcohol notes make the whole production rather unpleasant.

Gee what a rubbish brewery. Aroma gives nothing but corny metal alcohol. Taste is similar.

This headless, flat yellow drink smells like caramel corn that had been dropped into mud. The flavor is mainly corn syrup sweetness with some malty graininess. It’s watery to drink and has a tinny finish. Lovely.

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Light golden color with a moderate dense white head. Light malt and dry hay aroma. Light candi and alcohol sweetness send their greetings from the start. Light caffine bitterness mid swallow. Tastes like a malt liqour with just a touch less alcohol then most. Interesting. Spritzy and oily on the tongue.

Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, cereal), lightly hoppy (flowers, herbs), with a light note of DMS. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, slightly unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Cleaner aroma than the Krepkoe, but still...just another industrial Russian lager.

From a bottle purchased at Lukas Liquors in Iowa City. The body is medium gold with a large white head. The aroma has notes of cooked carrots with a hint of hot plastic. The taste has some nasty notes of sweet potatoes and over ripe cherries. This is way too sweet. The body is highly carbonated. The finish gets more of a note of green tomatoes as you drink. Pretty bad.

This bottled brew poured a very large head of foamy finely sized white colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a transparent carbonated straw yellow colred body and a poor lace. If I didn't know better, I'd say it looked just like an American Standard such as Bud Light. The aroma was a mild malt hop one with a touch of something else. The mouthfeel was smooth with a very mild hop bite in the finish. Mostly malty in flavor, it also had a touch of sweetness like honey.