When I lived in St. Petersburg for 4 months I had some time to sample
some Russian beer. Mostly, we drank Baltica which came in a number of
varieties (1-8). 1 and 2 were apparently very watered down and
undrinkable (so probably similar to mass-market american beer). 3 was a
decent lager. 4 was darker (a porter) and 5 was darker still. I can't
remember what 6 was, it may have been the non-alcoholic version
(produced mainly for advertising purposes so you could advertise that
beer where ads for alcohol weren't allowed). 7 was the export version,
pretty similar to 3, the primary difference being that it came in cans
or 5L mini-keg form (All of the others were 500ml bottles). 8 was a
fairly new variety that had come out shortly before I was there (1998).
It was an amber ale that tasted slightly stronger than 3 but was
something like 8 or 9% alcohol. At the time they seemed pretty
drinkable but I wasn't as sophisticated a beer drinker at that time.
I've since give up alcohol for health reasons though.
The other beer I remember enjoying was one I had at a football (soccer)
match on Victory Day. I believe it was called Peterhof. Came in a can,
6.7% alcohol, decent lager.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 02:26 AM, andrew fildes wrote:
I notice that you don't mention the Russian beers Boris - they have to
be worse! My Siberian memories are a Stoly/Starka haze but I seem to
remember avoiding the beer after a first taste! Worse than that stuff
they used to give us kids in france all those many years ago...
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