Niksicko Pivo

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Clear pale yellow, white lacing foam head. Earthy aroma and taste, barley dry aftertaste. Guess would taste much better when in country, in summer. (Velp 201510)

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

Pale yellow color. Quite a lot of foam, but it dissapears fast. Aroma is nicely hoppy, but little bit weakish. Taste is quite crispy, but at the same time little bit sweet. Not bad, but just a little bit plain for me.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 2

What more can really be said about this one? It's a typical pale lager with the pale yellowish colored pour, a weak initial head that fizzles out and doesn't lace. The aroma is sloppy corn and adjuncts. The flavor followed suite, and was your typical sloppy malt heavy pale lager with a lingering unclean adjunct aftertaste. Another country in the passport, tick, tick, tick!

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

Never thought I would have a beer from Montenegro. Aroma is of some slight saaz as well as some malty sweetness with some very faint cardboard and some musty sweetness. Appearance is a pilsner-gold in color when held to the light with a medium-sized head on top that is fuzzy and a bleach-white in color that adheres to the glass when it diminishes leaving a fine layer of of fuzz on the glass. Mouthfeel is light-bodied with some decent complexity and balance with a pallette that is crisp and clean and pretty sharp. Flavor is of slight hops as well as some malty sweetness with an aftertaste that is clean and crisp like a pilsner should be and has a finish that is sweet as well as malty and a tad dry-like. Overall, I am actually surprised with this brew, seriously, and is a easy-drinking lager beer that I would go for again. I actually recommend this one if you see it somewhere.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

This bottle may be past it's prime, I see a date of 6/24/07 on the label so it's a year old at best. Dark gold pour with a 1" thick head and blanketing lacing. No real aroma to speak of, neutral to the nose and very faint. Medium bodied with a strong, funky bitterness. Stale, offensive aftertaste that is really distracting. The stinging hops overpower the pale malt. This may be too old to be worthwhile.

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

Canned. Yellowish golden colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is malts, hay and some mild sweetish notes. Flavour is malts, hay, grass and some sweetness. Quite refreshing. hayish aftertaste.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

My cousin got this in KC on a recommendation. It was much better than I expected. Poured a medium hazy gold with traces of a head. The aroma was light bread with carrots and mild apples. The taste was bread crust with some bell pepper. There is a definite black pepper spice in the finish. Well balanced. I would get this again.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

500 ml bottle. ABV is 5%. My first beer from Montenegro. Clear pale golden colour, large and lasting white head, good lacing. Flowery and grassy aroma, quite nice. Maybe some soap in the background, but not enough to ruin the aroma. Light bodied with a substantial hoppy bitterness from start to finish. I would like some more malts to balance the hops, but this beer is still much better than I feared.

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

Found this one by accident, and it is a rare bird in this part of the world. It poured a hazy dark gold with a good-sized foamy head. Aroma was nicely malty. Taste was also of malt with some hops and perhaps slight spicing. Aftertaste was quite pleasant; a most enjoyable beer to drink.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

An interesting import from what remains of Yugoslavia (specifically, the Montenegro region).

500mL bottle, with a rather bland label: white oval, green band all the way around the band, with "Nikšičko Pivo" witten in gold. "Anno 1896". And in the green band, the brewery and the alcohol content written in gold. Best before date of 06.03.04. Also interesting is that the malt content is printed on the label (11.8%), which contradicts the websites claim of 12%. Of course, what's the remaining malt bill consist of? I guess it's better not knowing... ;-]

Good appearence, with a nice thick and rocky head of foam, and lots of sticky lacing on the inside of my Hacker-Pschor 50cL glass.

Adequate aroma, that can neither confirm not deny this beer's characteristics. Very anonymous, but, at the same time, not unappealing.

First impressions of this beer's flavor profile aren't all that positive, to be honest. Kind of a burnt plastic-like taste in the back of my mouth, with some sweet stickiness also over-staying it's welcome. But, FWIW, this went pretty well with the brats-and-spicy-mustard meal me and my fiance shared while watching the football games today.

Simple and very unpretentious -- I guess I would call this maybe "the Ranier [beer] of The Balkans". Workmanlike, and adequate for what it sets out to do.
//TB