Yarpivo Krepkoe (Strong)

Brewed by Baltika-Yaroslavl (Baltika - Baltic Beverages Holding)
Style: European Strong Lager
Yaroslavl, Russia

16.9 oz bottle-A clear golden body with a small white head which emits a slight aroma of a pale lager and alcohol. Taste of slight malt with a big alcohol taste. Tastes like a Malt Liquor. Blah.

Bottle 500 ml
Appearance :Clear , color of medium dark gold with medium fizzy top. 3-
Nose :Aromatic hop presence typical to Lublin hops , sweet sugar like pale malt backing. Little alcohol found.
Flavour/Palate : Medium thin body . Malty front followed by dry alcohol finish . Alcohol was rough and unplesant , far to much of it. Malt was too thin to balnce things up. Simplistic brew with rougher edges. Half way from Mocne to Malt Liquor of North America.

Bottle from Topp’s. 16.9 fl. oz. and label says Yarpivo Extra lager 7.2% abv. This appears to be the same although no can nor plactic bottle here. Pours a clear yellow with thin white head. Aroma is sweet, some malt, some alcohol. Body is lightly carbonated, thin. Flavor is sweet and alcoholic with some corn type flavors and a hint of hops. Finish is alcohol and some malt. This has some of the stomach turning character of a bad malt liquor and I think it’s giving me a headache. Not good.

Can. Yellow/golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hay. Flavour is sweet, fruit, malt, yellow apple, alcohol. Nothing special.

Can. Clear, pale golden with a minimal white head. Weak aroma, quite papery, with some hops, alcohol and a little note of hay. The flavor has yellow apples, alcohol and grass. Thin to medium body. The finish is quite sweet, with a vague fruityness and hoppiness. A typical "get-drunk-fast" kind of beer. (070404)

500ml (thanks to Per-Einar for bringing a can from Arkhangelsk). Clear amber-golden body under a gradually diminishing white head. Light aroma of sweet malts. Little more than very sweet flavoured alcoholic water. Light textured and savourless palate (05.04.2007).

Can. Light yellow colour. Bubbly bit creamy medium mostly diminishing head, which leaves a fair lacing. Aroma of grains and grass, light sweetness, bit sour and metallic. Flavour is harsh, moderate bitterness with cereals, alcoholic with perfume and medicine, bit dry. Quite nasty brew!

Plastic litre bottle. Golden color. Apple syrup and grapes in the aroma and flavor. Vague bitterness of old hops. Sugary sweet, somewhat perfumed. Alcohol. Thin. Bah!!!