Hazy deep amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt and caramel notes. Sweet flavour with ripe fruits and metal notes. Ends sweet.

Clear golden with tiny white head. Smell like a cat and tastes like shit. What the fuck is this? weird weird beer...

Clear golden with medium white head. Sweet malty aroma with mild caramel notes. Sweet flavour with malty and mild hoppy notes. Ends somewhat bitter.

Can, 5.5%. Clear golden colour. Green apple aroma, vinous. Medium bitterness, rough.

Can, 2.5%. Strange aroma, earthy, and as Papsø says, smells like cat piss. Quite sweet flavour, a little grainy.

Can, 3.5%. Quite buttery aroma. Hazy brown colour. Very small head. Very sweet flavour, quite malty. Horrible metal finish.

Bottle, 5.3%. Quite citric aroma. Clear yellow colour, small white head. The flavour is also quite citric, and on top of that grainy. OK body though.

Half-liter bottle. As "Zhiguly Ale for Export." Needed some boxes because we’re moving. The wife asks me to check at Binny’s. Well, this is the only time my wife will actually ask me to go to the liquor store. But I ought to buy something before I ask for boxes… aha! Cheap Baltic gasohol to the rescue!
Pours dark, kind of brassy yellow under a head head that dwindles away immediately. Unattractive swirl of bits left in the bottle. Smell betrays corn, plastic band-aids, phenols. Taste… well, what should I have expected? Corny, alcoholic fusels, notes of honey. Hard to find evidence of specific hops, just some bitterness that can’t keep back the sweetness. Rather insipid mouthfeel. Other ratings imply this might be better than the example I’ve found.

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.

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