(I don’t have the faintest idea how to pronounce that)

Brewery: Trehsosensky Plant (Завод Трехсосенский (ООО))
Brewery Location: Somewhere in Russia… I am struggling to find out.
Alcohol: 4.9%

I was walking around my neighborhood and I found a polish market. In the search for poppy seeds rolls (which I used to get at the polish market where I lived in Chicago), I went inside to see what they have.

I didn’t find the rolls unfortunately, but I did buy a couple beers, this being one of them. It was completely written in Russian, which made finding out where it comes from difficult. I couldn’t even write it down, and I had to send a picture to a Russian friend of mine so he could write it for me, enabling me to copy-paste it.

Sight: It had a nice dark color, although there was barely any head to speak of, and what was there disappeared quite quickly. What I would like to bring attention to is the bottle, though, which I thought looked really cool. It had the appearance of a wooden barrel, which was kind of unique when most beers have the standard glass bottle. While the head was lacking, I still have to rate it highly based on the pleasantly dark color and the awesome bottle.

Smell: It smelled nice enough, but nothing special. A slightly malty aroma.

Taste: There are 2 sides to every coin, and while this beer had an excellent presentation with the bottle that impressed me so much, it was seriously lacking in the taste department. I felt like I could barely taste it, and what I did taste was just in the back of the mouth somehow. It seemed to have a taste, but it was just hard to place, as if there was some maltiness to it, but yet it somehow managed to be tasteless at the same time. My friend even said, “It’s somewhere between amazing and awful.” I found it to have SOME sort of taste, but tasteless at the same time, barely rescued by the malty undertones.