Yarpivo Krepkoe (Strong)

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

A light yellow beer with a bubbly white head. The aroma is sweet metallic and alcoholic, and the flavor is very sweet and quite alcoholic, combined with a sour note of brewing cereal. Not my style - and I don’t like brewing cereal in my beer.

(Plastic bottle 100 cl) Fully golden with a small, white head. Rather neutral aroma - perhaps some alcohol does make it through my nostrils. Body is surprisingly thin considering the alcohol with a solid shot of alcohol and a bitter finish. Rather typical crude and inharmonious European Strong. 091205

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!!!

Aroma is very alcoholic. Taste is similar very bland and uninspiring. A terrible attempt at a beer.

Golden coloured. Sweetish aroma of malts with some alcohol notes. Slightly sweet and strong flavour. Rather clean and nice.

500 ml bottle. Very pale golden beer with a thin white head. Light pale malt aroma. A little bit of cidery character. Flavour is pretty crappy. Thin body, alcoholic and slightly fatty... bleh.

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)