McDermottDrink (4593) reviewed Grand 9.5 from Gubernija 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
500 ml can from Sam’s, Downers Grove. Best before 20 Mar 09. A Baltic beer in a can. Will this come out better, being protected from the hazards faced by the green bottle in the picture? Well, first off, it has an ingredient list, and right after "barley malt" is "corn groats." Hmmm… groats! In a straight lager glass, it pours a somewhat gold color, sudsy white head. Smell is unmistakably malt with fusels from fermented corn. Taste is definitely corny, into my usual description: Karo syrup. The light kind. Very grainy, and gives the impression of having been spiked with cheap vodka. Something still compels me to drink it, maybe the need to get a snootful so I can go to sleep.
GRM (7524) reviewed Grand 9.5 from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Can, 500 ml, best before 12/12/2007, at Ian’s place, savoured October 12 2007; eye: golden, no effervescence, clear, tiny almond head; nose: honeyed, malt, corn; mouth: honeyed, caramelized malt, alcohol, sweet finale in alcohol (a bit too much even), creamy and alcoholic texture; overall: better than expected FRANÇAIS Canette, 500 ml, meilleure avant 12/12/2007, bue chez Ian, savourée le 12 octobre 2007; oeil : dorée, pas d’effervescence, claire, petite mousse amande; nez : mielleux, malt, maïs; bouche : mielleuse, malt caramélisé, alcool, finale sucrée en alcool (un peu trop même), texture crémeuse et alcoolique; en résumé : mieux que mes attentes
yespr (55501) reviewed Zhiguly Beer (Russian Label) from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
2 L plastic bottle. Pours slight hazy yellow and with a fully diminished white head. Butterish aroma, slight grainy. Grainy dry flavour with a finish of butter. Too much diacetyl for my liking.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Zhiguly Beer (Russian Label) from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Plastic bottle
Hazy blond color. Common Lager, sweetish, with some hay/honeish character and respectable bitterness.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
(Plastic bottle 200 cl) Actually comes as "Gubernija Zhigulevskoe Svetloe Pivo" in cyrillic letters - I reckon it’s this one (although I absolutely don’t understand the high US ratings!). Anyways, this pours slightly hazy golden with a tiny, unclean head. Odd aroma of vegetables, but not completely unpleasant. Medium body, a little flat in the mouthfeel - like most plasticbottled beers. Sweet accents of brewing cereal, a little cardboard and then a rough bitterness. Truly a relic from an ancient Soviet era. 301107
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. The label says "Weissbier" under the beer’s name. Hazy pale yellow color with a big white head. Aroma of malt, notes of hops and faint hints of wheat. Flavor has some sweetish malt and some sourish citric wheat. Light-bodied. More pale-lager-ish than a hefeweizen but has a bit of wheat beer character. not good, but drinkable. (Note: the importer’s hebrew back label says this beer contains 1.9% ABV, but the label has a lot of typing errors so I don’t really trust it.)
fonefan (84534) reviewed Ekstra from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Clear yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, cardboard ! Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to short duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Ekstra from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Bottled. Yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is cardboard and hay. Flavour is very much the samer along with some slight metallic notes. Not very good.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Ekstra from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
500ml bottle at Chris Shindig. Gold, lasting white head. Really bad candy sugar, sweetness. Some kind of kiddie sweet, very corny, awful.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Kunigaikščių from Gubernija 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with no head. The aroma is sweet and dominated by malt, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel. And it has a good body.