Kotayk Brewery

Commercial Brewery in Abovyan, Kotayk, Armenia 🇦🇲

Established in 1974

Contact
10 Abovyan Street, Abovyan, 2201, Armenia
Description
"Kotayk" Brewery being part of "Multi Group" Concern is the successor of the Abovyan Brewery, which was founded last century in the 70s and became one of the leading manufacturing companies in the Soviet Armenia. Due to Czech equipment and technologies, the factory successfully manufactures products using domestic and imported raw materials. The factory been exploited in January 1978, occupying an area of 6.5 hectares, which was selected considering the high quality of the water flowing from Katnaghbyur.

In 1995 the factory decided to create the Open Joint Stock Company Mr. headed by Gagik Tsarukyan. During this time the factory created a new beers "Artsakh" and "Kotayk".
In 1996 by Mr. Tsarukyan's decision was established a joint venture with French "Castel" Company, which is internationally recognized as a manufacturer of beer, especially in Africa.
The quality of "Kotayk" Brewery products is controlled with perfectly equipped laboratory of the factory.

In 2011 Mr. Tsarukyan bought all bonds of "Kotayk" Brewery and became the sole owner of the company.

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4.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

16.9 oz bottle. Pours a super light, almost orange color with no head. Semi sweet malts on the aroma. Really light in body and flavor. One thing I can say, this beer drinks super easy. Not enough flavor here, but the very little there is isn’t offensive by any means. Picking up the hints of hops in the finish. Not a bad lager. I prefer this over many other import lagers I’ve tried.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2014 at 19:01


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Golden colour, white head. Aroma of malts, hay, sweaty hops, quite soapy, herbal notes. Malty flavour, light hops, quite bitter, light sweet. Watery. Malty finish, herbal.
(from 50cL bottle @ BAB 2014. Shared by 77ships. Thanks Eugene! )

Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2014 at 15:12


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

14/9/2014 - 500ml bottle from a store in Moscow that stocks various imports. Like with most Armenian beers there are two bottle/label types: one for Armenia and one for the export market. This is the export version: the bottle says (in Russian) "Erebuni Beer, Light Pasteurised". ABV is 4.8%, gravity is 14%. Pours transparent gold with a very small head. Light hoppy and slightly herby aroma and flavour. 3/3/4/3/6 = 1.9 //// Re-rate 24/07/2016 – Still a 500ml green bottle but this time the design is fancier. Pours clear gold with a small white head that disappears fast. This time, however, there is some lacing. Aroma is straw, herbal hops, grain. Taste is slighlty sweet, herbal, and malty. Slight bitterness. Not that bad. 2.7

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2014 at 10:08


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Pours clear gold with a small bone white head that fades away very fast. Skunky, malty aroma, smells a hell of a lot like Kilikia. An average euro lager.

Tried on 12 Sep 2014 at 11:34


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Flaske delt på RBHD-samlingen hos Asle Bjørn: hurra, et nytt land! Lys og med kort skum. Litt smørmalt/diacetyl blander seg inn i den beskjedne humlearomaen. Drikkbar, men "with characteristic hop bitter and expressed malt taste" er en betydelig overdrivelse.

Tried on 31 Aug 2014 at 12:04


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Shared 50 cl green bottle at local tasting, 4.5% ABV. Pale golden colour, low white head. Strong aroma of grass, candy and butterscotch, but not unpleasant. Bland flavour, not much of anything, a little grassy hops in the finish. Forgettable.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2014 at 12:22


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Clear, pale golden. Quickly disapperaing white head. Sweetish aroma with flowery hops and butterscotch. Similar taste. Not too bad. A bit waterish.

Tried on 29 Aug 2014 at 12:19


3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Every country outside of the old historical ’beer belt’ and outside of the States has its own national mass-marketed lager and usually little else when it comes to beer, and this is the one from Armenia. Crisp with thin mouthfeel, grainy with some corn-like, even a bit sugary sweetness (something I utterly dislike in pale lagers) and light spicy but brief hop bitterness in the finish. Drinkable.

Tried on 21 Aug 2014 at 11:47


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Strongish Armenian lager with snow white head, golden colour and thin malt sweet taste, bit lightstruck aroma, grassy hops in an otherwise rather thin finish. I had worse in this style, I must admit.

Tried on 11 Aug 2014 at 13:03


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Getrunken auf einer Kaukasusreise im Sommer 2014 Ein einfaches, karges Bier, das nichts falsch macht, aber auch nicht viel ist.

Tried on 05 Aug 2014 at 12:33