Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled. Nut brown, minimal head. Fruity malt aroma. Sweet and fruity, medium bodied and a bit syrupy. Low hop rate allows solid fruity malt to dominate. Rather clean flavour profile. Lightly salty finish. Simple, but not bad at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can
Clear copper brown color, small brownish head. Metallic, caramelly, a bit unclean aroma. Harsh grassy hoppyness, almost like in some German kellerbier. Alcoholic, but not totally hopeless, quite like typical Russian "temnoe".
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Can "Tian-Sian 11º Svetloe" (BB 06/2006)
Pale yellow, not much head. Aroma is harsh malty with metallic notes. Very watery, carbonated, harsh, vegetables notes in the finish. Totally lacking malts. But another new country :)
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Canned. Yellowish golden colour, not much head. Harsh malt with strong metallic hints. Sweet malty and hoppy flavour with strong metallic hints. Very unbalanced and unpleasant. A bit dry hayish finish.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Pours a clear golden. Fruity-minty hop note. Very light malt. Light body. Finish is quick. Kazakh equivalent of Labatt Blue Light.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cherrywood colour. Flavour has a firm alcoholic smack with strong toffee overtones. Sweet, earthy, chewy and dense - like bottled Devils Food cake.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Light amber colour. Cidery, grainy, slightly phenolic (paint) aroma. Fairly light, watery palate but with more of those unpleasant phenols.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Slightly spicy hop note with thin malts, leading to a dryish finish. Very faint apple notes that could easily be attributed to the hops. Light straw colour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pale golden. Dry and bitter with oily saaz hop aroma. .....................
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Named after the mighty mountain range in the southeast of the country you are lead to believe that the beer will be fresh as a mountain creek. But no, already the smell of old wollen socks tells you that your assumption was wrong. This is a golden coloured sweetish and unclean standard lager with low bitterness.