Been avoiding this one, but it’s got to be done. Deep gold with a foamy, white head. Aroma of paint thinner, butter and apple sauce. Taste is mildly sweet throughout. The touch of spice at the end is the highlight. Finishes with a touch of raw alcohol, but given what it is, the booze is hidden better than I expected. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, decent chewiness. Not an experience that needs repeating.

From one Ucranian shop, you can forget this product for your life, venenous and this bottle finished in a sauce for the meat. The alcool is sharp and too metalic, totally unbalanced, malty with a typical side of toffee, good one to kill your bees in the garden, 05.09.20, at Epalinges.

0,5 l can from the Kaufland in town, costs 1,39 €. Clear darker golden to pale amber in the glass, big white foamy head. Not a lot on the nose, little bit sweet elements, pale malt. Taste is increasing alcoholic, sweet, some malt, dry metallic. Above average carbonation. Meh ...

In some corner shop in Brussels.
Deep gold.
No head.
Light body.
Sticky.
Sweet malts.
Dry bitter finish.
Overall not a good experience.

Polish strong lager of industrial signature bought at a nightshop near my place in Ghent - expectations are obviously low, I recall my visit in Poland a couple of years before the craft beer movement hit Europe and this kind of alcoholics' fuel was omnipresent back then, I am guessing it still is now in spite of all those much more beautiful brews they created since then. Anyway, medium sized, opening, off-white, moussey head leaving some flat 'islands' in the middle but retaining well around the edge; crystal clear orange blonde robe, a kind of 'burnt orange', a ginger-ish colour I have rarely seen in a strong lager of this kind - very clearly darker than average. Aroma of overcooked rice, raw cereals, cheap industrial crackers, industrial caramel, wodka, shoe polish, honey, glue. Sweetish, clean onset, lager-like in the cheapest way possible, with moderate carbonation and smooth, bit glueish but altogether - considering ABV - rather thin mouthfeel; minerally carb under a slick cereally core fuelled with thin graininess and burnt sugars as well as something oddly meaty (soup meat), until of course this heating effect comes along to kill the little amount of flavours that were present - wodka-like, with only a slight hint of hop extract bitterishness at the back, but also solventy, albeit considerably less agressive than is usually the case in this dreary style. I hesitate to take another sip - this is burnt caramel with fusel alcohol and not much else, and its entire make-up shouts "hangover" tomorrow. Straight to the drain - another fine example of how bad some beers can be. This is an assault to anyone's health, alcoholically challenged or not, and should, as such, be forbidden by the European Union.