Gorkovskaya Brewery (Горьковская Пивоварня)
Commercial Brewery in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia 🇷🇺
Established in 2018
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
440ml bottle. Pours foggy orange with a small white head. Aroma is tropical fruit, sweets, grain. Taste is light sweet, fruity, caramel. Very light bitter finish. Light bodied. Some between good and awful on the Russian macro-craft spectrum.
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Bottled 440ml (from Tallinn) A bit hazy orange colour, steady white head. Aroma has banana and metal. Light-bodied. Light banana, metal and clove in the flavour. Light citrus but otherwise low bitterness. Kind of industrial vibe in this Weizen.
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Bottled 500ml (from Estonia, can't remember where). Clear copper colour, small off-white head. Piney, citrusy, caramalty, a bit toffeish aroma. Light-bodied. Pine, toffee and citrus in the flavour. Quite nice. Feels even a red IPA or even bitter than lager.
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Appearance: cloudy yellow to orange with a moderate white frothy head of medium retention. Aroma: tropical fruit, honey, grapefruit. Taste: light sweet, malty and hoppy. Lychee, passion fruit, crackers, floral notes. Discouraging near to zero bitterness. Mouth feel: medium minus body, average carbonation. Summary: a business matter.
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Appearance: cloudy gold with a moderate white frothy head of medium retention. Aroma: cracker malt, some spicy hop. Taste: light sweet, malty. Crackers. Spicy hop (not much anyway). Light bitterness. Mouth feel: light to medium body, lively to fizzy carbonation. Overall: drinkable.
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Appearance: Cloudy amber with a moderate off-white head of good retention. Aroma: honey, floral, malt, distant melon. Taste: light to medium sweet, light bitter. Honey, malt, meadow flowers. Empty ending. Mouth feel: medium minus body, uneven. Average to lively carbonation. Overall: not good enough even for a mass market IPA.
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450ml bottle. Pours slightly hazy gold with a small white head. Aroma is herbal/grassy hops, cooked vegetables and malt. Taste is light to medium sweet, herbal hops, malt. Bitterish finish. Pretty unpleasant. Reminds me of a low-quality Czech offering.
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450ml bottle. Pours muddy orange with a medium-sized off-white head. Aroma is caramel, yeast, hops that are both citrus and vegetable-like at the same time. Taste is sweetish, caramel, yeast, piney, citrus. Light bitter finish. Pretty unpleasant. Their N/A IPA is a lot better.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
450ml bottle. Pours opaque black with a medium-sized beige head. Aroma is artificial chocolate (flavouring), caramel, faint roasted malts. Taste is medium sweet, the same chocolate flavouring, faint roastiness, malt, sour note. Light bitter finish. Light to medium bodied, feels a bit weak bodied for 7%. Basic stuff, but for Russian supermarket beer I suppose it is not that bad.
Sweet, citrus, fruity, mellow