0,45l bottle from Skazka grocery shop, Chaussée de Wavre 890, Brussel. F: thin, white, not long lasting. C: pale gold, clear. A: watery caramel, bit mineral water. T: thin body, watery feeling, bit caramel and bready, rice, low carbonation, at least easy drinkable thats all.

0,5l bottle from Skazka grocery shop, Chaussée de Wavre 890, Brussel. F: big, tan, good retention. C: dark coppery to brown, clear. A: malty, bit bready, raw hoppy. T: light malty base, bit raw hops, some caramel, bit bready, quite watery, soft carbonation, quite strange all together and of course not for the style at all.

'Premium' lager from a brewery in Kirov, Russia, that besides lagers apparently also does German and even Belgian style beers... Too bad I couldn't find any of those instead of this 'Elitnoje', but anyway. Intricately cobweb-lacing, very pale greyish-tinged snow white, mousy, bit irregular but largely stable head with some gaps in the middle; crystal clear 'old gold' robe, a tad darker than usual in Russian pale lagers, with very lively swirls of sparkling throughout, sustaining the head. Aroma of sourish and sweetish soggy grains, chalk dust wiped from a chalkboard, plastic, sparkling water, hints of boiled corn water, chlorophyl, wet flour, cooked rice kept in the fridge for too long, dry breakfast cereals. Neutral onset, sourish grains paired with a dull sweetish 'cerealliness' and in all more sweetish than sourish, fizzy carbonation adding lots of minerally aspects; feels a bit 'fuller' and (cleanly) breadier in the middle than is usually the case in standard pale lagers but corn-like as well, tad oily as well, but with metallic and soapy aspects that become quite annoying in the end. Finish adds more soapiness and a plastic-like aspect, as well as a very light stroke of grassiness bringing some late and very faint bitterishness. More or less drinkable for its style - but yet another bland and boring, artificial and industrial standard lager.

Bottle (as Karl Schneider Tscheschskoe, Dank am See!): Pale golden, a bit unclear, no head to speak of, mild sweetish-bitter malty and hoppy nose, some - indeed - buttery traces underneath; mild - as expected - sweetish-bitter flavour, pretty - as expected - light bodied, almost watery; hardly lingering sweetish - and a bit sticky - malty and mildly bitter finish. Not unpleasant, but too thin and a bit too sweet...