Golden colour with small white head.Aroma is malty and grainy with medium white head, taste is watery and thin bit boring but guess what we have to deal with right now.

Country Tick #162 Kyrgyzstan, bottle shared, darker golden beer, small head. Aroma is light struck, metallic, malt. Taste is the same, metallic, malt, grain, lightstruck. Nope

The national standard lager of Kyrgyzstan, from a 50 cl bottle shared by tderoeck, thanks for this country tick Tim! Thin and open, snow white, shred-lacing head over a somewhat orange-tinged old golden beer, clear with some loose sparkling here and there. Aroma initially primarily lightstruck (mercaptans from disintegrated hop components – or ‘cat pee’ as some say), later making room for notes of old cereals, dry straw, stale corn water, grass, dust and iron – I guess the dusty mountain slopes of Kyrgyzstan are well conveyed here… Neutral onset, quickly shifting to a monochromous and boring grainy sweetishness, with slick, thin body, moderately carbonated; simple sweetish graininess continuing further on with slight metallic edge and ending with a vague grassy touch, but remaining dramatically low in (hop) bitterness. This is about as blend as they come, even in this most hopeless of beer styles, but it sure makes for a great country tick…

20/I/23 - 50cl bottle as a gift, shared @ Wim’s place, BB: 16/I/23, bottled: 18/X/22 (2023-80) Thanks to Jochen for the bottle!

Clear gold beer, big creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: wow, very skunky, lots of cardboard, weird, caramel touch, sweet sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: a bit malty up front, skunky, very weird, unpleasant bitterness, bad, herbal, weird, very oxidized, don’t like this one. Oh well, at least it’s a new country tick, hurray! :-)

500ml bottle from Tzum, Bishkek. Golden body, no head, patches on top. Soviet design, the same grainy, breadlike and sweet nose and taste as many other lagers from former soviet republics. A reminisce of the planned economy? Drinkable, but nothing special. Ok with horse meat.

50cl bottle from a random minimarket in Karakol. Pours clear golden with a white head. Peculiar grainy aroma with hints of grass and hay. Strange Soviet style lager in a strange Kyrgz city. There a golden Lenin statue on the square, but now a cold yurt is waiting. Don't know what's worst. --- Beer merged from original tick of Arpa (Арпа) on 19 Sep 2019 at 19:35 - Score: 3

Pours clear golden, topped with large frothy white head, very nonlasting. Grainy nose with breadiness. Gently bittery, grassy with some sweetness. Very light, almost watery. A bit metallic in the finish. Not too nice, but hey, it's from Kyrgyz Rep.