9 Krepkoye (Крепкое)
Baltika Brewery (Балтика) in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺
Lager - Imperial Pils Regular|
Score
4.54
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A strong lager beer with a taste close to classic lager varieties. The flavor is light and there is a suggestion of malt, together with sweetish notes and mild hops bitterness.
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3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Rasputin’s, Ipswich. Pours a light golden colour, with an off-white head. Subtle hoppy, grassy aroma, accompanied with a strong alcoholic kick. Medium sweetness and bitterness. Oily texture, syrupy alcholic finish. Not for me but no doubt serves a purpose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2015
at 03:41
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Tasted years ago as Baltika 9 Extra, bottle from a night shop. Medium, snow white head over a clear, pale golden blonde beer. Grainy and corny aroma, soapy, alcoholic; sweetish taste, adjuncts, grainy with a certain sourishness, metallic, bitterish finish more so because of alcohol than because of hops. Alcoholics’ fuel like most Eastern European pale strong lagers, but not even the worst in its style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2015
at 14:50
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle, courtesy of MiP. Pours clear pale golden with airy white head. Clear aroma of malt and yeast, with very faint notes of hops. Sweet flavour of malt and yeast, quickly offset by offensively bitter alcohol notes and some hoppy hints. A massive attack of cardboard tanks (T34?) closes the battle, leaving nothing to salvage. Not my favourite style and definitely not my favourite beer. Despite my Polish origin, I have never understood what it is that makes people east of Eden delight in superboozy concoctions of lager death.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2015
at 14:23
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
You must be kidding me. This is my 750th rating and I am drinking Baltika. Is this some kind of sick joke? OK, I’ll make the best of this. Pale gold with no head. Sweet malt nose. Metallic malt flavor with obvious alcohol burn when swallowed. Ugh, why would anybody purchase this. My son did because he likes to try beers from impoverished totalitarian rudimentary monopolistic /dictatorships! Avoid this at all costs.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2014
at 21:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Pale yellow with small foamy white head, crisp malt aroma, sweetish taste with doughy flavor, low carbonation, abrupt finish with slight metallic aftertaste. Nothing too remarkable about this beer,
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2014
at 17:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500 ml bottle into lager glass, best before 12/6/2014. Pours fairly crystal clear bright golden color with a 1 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of pear, apple, white grape, cracker, bread, honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Okay aromas with decent balance of pale malt, earthy hops, and fruity yeast ester notes; with solid strength. A bit too fruity/estery on the nose. Taste of lemon, pear, apple, cracker, bread, honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Fair amount of earthy/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, pear, apple, cracker, bread, honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice balance and robustness of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, moderately crisp, and slightly slick/sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warming present after the finish. Overall this is a pretty solid pale lager style. Good balance and robustness of pale malt, earthy hops, and fruity yeast ester flavors; and smooth and crisp to drink for the ABV. A pleasantly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2014
at 18:56