Hamovnikov Czar-Pushka

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Quite an interesting split in the reviews of this one. Me? I didn't think it was all that bad, until I started pouring more of it into my glass...! Huh? Please allow me to explain.

Pale gold, with a wispy layer of foam. Aroma? Not so bad, nothing offensive so far. Nuetral, but that's okay by me.

First few tastes weren't negative either. A bit sweet and biscuity -- very much reminded me of Klaster (a Czech Pils that I happen to enjoy). Rather refreshing. In short, this is surprisingly interesting beer, so far.

But then things took a sudden and dramtic turn for the worse once I went to refill my small hotel room glass..., when the first ugly brown clumps were roused from the bottom of the bottle, and several ended up my glass. Gross! I glanced at the bottle's bottom, and it looked like the bottom of a pond, with thin wispy clumps -- some as big a dime -- floating around like algae.

In short, this beer had a good thing going for itself, until whatever brownish muck was roused up and placed into suspension. Perhaps it would have been better if I poured most of the 500mL bottle into a glass all in one go? But really, is that my problem, or a fairly foul beer's fault?

Either way, this beer really doesn't taste bad, but without careful pouring, will end up looking down-right disturbing in the glass. Shame too, since I was kinda warming up to this rather arcane looking beer.

But sorry, don't care to deal with the creepy brown clumps from hell...! Next!

Music: Cryptosy's "Blasphemy Made Flesh"
//TB