This Badboy is Baltika #8, from Baltika Breweries which is aparently the 2nd largest in Europe (?) Ruskys like their beer!
I say beer, but this is an “unfiltered wheat ale” so it’s pale and quite cloudy, which I didn’t notice until I’d nearly finished.
To be honest I was pretty charged when I tasted this, and I can assure you I was hammered after it. The pic doesn’t show it, but this is a BIG beer.
What I did notice was the strong belgian style flavour. It’s almost like ‘Leffe Blond” or Hoegaarden. Kinda surprising really, it’s like it’s been brewed with a bit of finesse. Not made with gypsy tears or heavy water.
It’s like Tasty Wheat. If ‘Mouse’ from The Matrix didn’t attempt to fire two automatic shotguns from the hip while Neo and Morpheus tried to escape, I would’ve told him that this is what tasty wheat tastes like.
It’s Russian. It’s huge. It’s strong like hammer and (probably) harvested by sickle
Indonesia is up next.
