Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Light malt and light grass aroma. Malt and light grain flavor with light mineral notes and ligth grass. Medium bodied. Malt and light grain linger with light mineral and light grass.

Can at 4.7%. Clear golden colour. Basic white head. Aroma: malts. Light body. Clean grainy taste. Restrained fruitiness.

Held onto this .5 L bottle way too long. Brought from Russia in 2004 along with other beers, vodkas, and our wonderful boy Vanya. Wanted to share this with a Russian-speaking acquaintance who could never make it out and whose diabetes got worse. Okay, I’m opening it to celebrate our move, having let it "lager" for 4 years. At least it’s been in the fridge almost the entire time.
Pours straw yellow, lots of bubbles, and a nice big head. Smell is light bready malt, a whiff of adjunct. Taste is actually above the usual cheap lager. A bit of fusel at first, but it clears away quickly. Does in fact seem to be an all-grain taste, just a basic balance of hops. Light citrus note. Goes down very well in the summer. I’m sure if I’d found this in a store around here, it’d have sat in an uncooled warehouse under florescent lights for months and tasted awful. Probably cost 75 cents American over in St. Petersburg.

Copper-gold, clear; thick and fine collapsing off-white head. Creamy, coconut nose initially, going over in grassy malts; bit of corn flakes. Not bad. Starting neutral, taste glides over burning caramel and cornflakes. Hops in the finish, without getting really bitter. Something almondy retronasal. MF begins watery, but fills in gradually, with even quite some malt (or adjunct) slickness. Better than the usual Russian stuff, I might have been a tad generous because of this with the marks.