3 Klassicheskoye (Классическое)
Baltika Brewery (Балтика) in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺
Lager - Premium Regular Out of Production|
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4.56
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Retired in 2023 - replaced by the re-launch of the 1992 recipe.
Baltika 3 Classic is a classic lager with a pronounced hop flavor brewed using only 3 ingredients: malt, hops and water. Baltika No. 3 has a well-balanced malt taste with a pleasant hop bitter taste and aroma.
This is an absolute classic with a rich history, high quality and unique taste.
Baltika 3 Classic beer was first launched in 1992 and since the mid-90s, due to its consistently high quality, has been a permanent winner of Russian and international awards. The variety has more than 30 of them. In 2018, Baltika 3 Classic received the silver medal of the prestigious British International Beer Challenge in the «Pilsner» category.
Baltika 3 Classic is a classic lager with a pronounced hop flavor brewed using only 3 ingredients: malt, hops and water. Baltika No. 3 has a well-balanced malt taste with a pleasant hop bitter taste and aroma.
This is an absolute classic with a rich history, high quality and unique taste.
Baltika 3 Classic beer was first launched in 1992 and since the mid-90s, due to its consistently high quality, has been a permanent winner of Russian and international awards. The variety has more than 30 of them. In 2018, Baltika 3 Classic received the silver medal of the prestigious British International Beer Challenge in the «Pilsner» category.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle from Morrisons. Pale gold colour with lasting white head. Bit of buttery cornon the nose but otherwise awful aroma. Almost tasteless in mouth. Some lemon on finish. I like drinking these lagers because it reminds me how good other beers are.0.8/5.0 Re-rate Bottle in Cardiff. Good lemony rip on finish. Excellent lager which I got all of my colleagues to drink
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2005
at 19:39
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Pale straw colored beer with a nice white head. Non-descript aroma that you’d describe as lager-like. Some fruitiness to the flavor along with some malt. Medium body and finish. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2005
at 22:12
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle 50 cl) Very pale with a pretty full and creamy head. Faint hoppy aroma and a discreet bitterness. Otherwise completely anonymous. 090704
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2005
at 05:41
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pale golden beer; thick, fine, very white head, fast gone. Vanilla, wet hay, faint grain - very vaguely sourish smell. Sharpish grainy-malt taste, or some adjunct, some faint cookie. Sweet, but with again a sourish edge. Liquorice in the finish. Light MF, bit fizzy. Small burning aftertaste. Half litre of boring lager - ’nuff said.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2005
at 09:01
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
I had liked the wheat and the porter by this company so I decided to sample the lager with at least some reasonably high expectations. Sigh. What I found was Chernobyl mineral water. Sampled from a 16.9 oz bottle this beer poured a straw yellow color with a large bleached white head. The head was creamy at least. Sour macro aroma dominated. Sour macro flavor followed. I have had worse beers but this one now brings this brewer down some in my esteem.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2004
at 14:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a clear, straw yellow. Big white head. Aroma is of light light barley, nothing much there, maybe there is some lemon, maybe I’m just imagining that. Flavor is watery, but neutral, no skunky flavors. Some barley grains, light honeysuckles and hints of grass. . . . ya I’m stretching here for some description. Palate is watery, but not altogether passable as thin. Some decent refreshing body there is. Light, neutral, not skunked and macro tasting, so that’s worth something. Oh ya, no soap, no metal, no stale apples (though a bit of apples in the aroma). Rerate Better flavor than I remember, though it’s not as clean and flavorful and good as the 1, IMHO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2004
at 19:27
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Pours a yellow with a huge head. Aroma is very metalic. Flavor is bland and tasteless. Can be found all over Russia. I met a group of Russians in Poland after i had been to Russia. They asked me what beer i had tried in Russia, I replied Baltika. They all looked at each other and told me Baltika is crap.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2004
at 19:46
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Draft. Your standard issue beer for the proletariat. On my second sampling, I find some improvements from what I had originally written, though. Somewhat light in appearance, but still a pleasing gold, with a thin lagery head. The sugary taste I had on my first sample was absent the second time around, and there was a noticable hop balance; just to counteract the malt, with no eaxtra bitterness to spare. This is the most commonly available beer in St. Pete, and the brand that is most active in advertising and sponsorships. You can usually find a portable Baltika stand in front of most railroad stations and several trolley stops, with its blue and white identifiers.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 May 2004
at 17:59
2.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Pale yellow, foamy white head. Skunky hoppy nose. Carbonated, light-bodied with some alcoholic bite. Watery, oily finish. Lame.
Pale yellow, foamy white head. Skunky hoppy nose. Carbonated, light-bodied with some alcoholic bite. Watery, oily finish. Lame.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2004
at 13:12
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pale flat lager with a malty foral aroma, and a dry slightly Euro malt flavour. Overall a plain Euro lager.
Tried
on 07 May 2004
at 13:18