Arsenalnoe Krepkoe (Extra Lager)

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

It pours a bright golden with a thin white head and copious lacing. A sour, malty aroma with some lemon. The mouthfeel is smooth a little thin. Flavors of malts, hops, alcohol, lemon, bitterness, and light spiciness. Yuck!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 3

Yet another Russian brew straight out of St. Petersburg in which I do not have high expectations for but, as always, I will keep an open-mind. The aroma is very pungent and sweet with some profiles of malt coming through as well as some graininess as well as farm hay with maybe some faint hoppiness. The appearance is a darker pale yellow with a full head on top that is bleach white in color and fuzzy with much carbonation and diminishes to a light and bubbly lacing that sticks to the glass. The mouthfeel is medium-bodied with some ruff malty complexity with not much any balance with a palate that is wet-like. The flavor is sweet and malty with some synthetic overtones with some dirty grain characteristics with some slight hoppiness with an aftertaste that is very alcoholic and heating with a finish that is anything but smooth but is still stomach-able. Overall, yet another Eastern-European strong lager that is reminiscient of an American malt liquor and is diesel fuel-like; just stick to Russian-made vodka. ...Addendum:... As I become more familiar with this brew, and as I spend more time consuming it; it seems to become much smoother than initially. This could become a 2.5 or 2.8 out of a possible 5 but I will re-rate at a later juncture.