Baltika Brewery (Балтика) 3 Klassicheskoye (Классическое)

3 Klassicheskoye (Классическое)

 

Baltika Brewery (Балтика) in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

  Lager - Premium Regular Out of Production
Score
4.55
ABV: 4.8% IBU: - Ticks: 167
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.
 

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6.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5
Schöne hellgelbe Farbe, angenehm süßlich-würziger Geruch. Der Antrunk ist süßlich-süffig, kaum Herb. Zum Hauptteil hin mild-süßlich und angenehm malzig. Zum Nachgeschmack wird das Bier noch etwas mild-süßlicher, vom Hopfen ist kaum was zu spüren, sehr süffig.
--> Erstaunlich leckeres Helles, angenehm süßlich, könnte nur eine Spur mehr Hopfen vertragen!
Test vom 13.7.2009, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 12,9,12,9,12,10 - 10,30
Tried on 22 Dec 2013 at 03:17

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours mid-yellow. Massive carbonation. Head is negligible. Nose is and spicy with a sour bit of skunk. All in all ok. It doesn’t taste of much, but you can taste the gritty flavour of the malt. Bittersweet with an odd sweet finish. Aftertaste a bit off though. Tasted like a beer, which is more than I can say for most macro lagers. Surprisingly passable.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2013 at 15:22

4.3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
bottle pours clear blonde, almost no white head unintence smell . some malts low carbo thin mouthfeel weak lager taste . some hidden bitterness .. too weak for me ..
Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2013 at 11:41

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
500 ml. brown – luckily – bottle @ home. Procured from Anna Maria in Antwerp. BBF 01/03/2014. Clear pale golden & as clear as water (if there were gradations for clearness, this beer might score full marks in the top criteria) with basically no head. Nose is pretty odd, raw dough, cookies mixed with pale lager grains, starch, sweeteners, pale lager hop oil. Okay. Taste is pale lager grains, white sugar, faint raw cookie dough, hop oil, dust, faint grass,… Oily body, this stuff is okay for a pale lager & somewhat drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2013 at 13:30

5.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts quite moldy with some grasy-moldy notes, a bit sourish-soapy. Hardly dry. Finish more balanced, not as moldy as the beginning. Okay. But nothing special.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2013 at 22:29

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
BOTTLE 50CL.

Head: white, medium, frothy, avg. retention. Colour: straw, clear.

Aroma: very weak, grainy, dms.

Taste: sweetish malt, „sweaty”.

A bland crappy lager.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2013 at 01:49

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottled, 0.50l. Clear straw color with large frothy white head, nice lacing and almost flat visible carbonation. Aroma of hay, grassy hops, grainy malt, mild floral honey, paper and a bit of skunk. Taste starts with light sweet malt and cooked vegetables, followed by grainy and light citric acidity, while finished moderate grassy bitter. Light body, thin texture and soft carbonation in palate. Refreshing, but unpleasant...
Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2013 at 10:38

3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 2
Bottle. Aroma rather hoppy, and not very good at that. Clear yellow colour. Stable head. Taste worse than their low alc. Sweet, stale, oxidated beer. Some low ambiguous bitterness. This is really bad.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2013 at 02:28

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
0.5L can at home, given by a friend who went to Russia, anyway i don’t see why this beer is given such a low scores... it isn’t that bad, just regular beer, a bit sweet but it doesn’t have anything bad to it...
Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2013 at 02:07

3.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2
I reckon they filled the bottles right out of the Neva. This beer is very watery and slightly chemical. Not that good.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2013 at 12:14