Baltika Brew Collection-Russian Honey Brown
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Baltika Brew Collection-Russian Honey BrownBaltika Brew Collection-Russian Honey Brown
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From:
Baltika Breweries
 
Russia
Style:
English Brown Ale
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
83
Avg:
3.58 | pDev: 7.82%
Reviews:
6
Ratings:
18
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jul 17, 2017
Added:
Mar 28, 2015
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  1
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Ratings by tone77:
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania

3.62/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a brown 14.9 oz. bottle. Has a caramel color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is mild, some honey and malts. Taste is the same, honey and malts, sweet and bready, refreshing. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a smooth and enjoyable beer.
Jun 25, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.25 by armock from New York

Jul 17, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by DNICE555 from Connecticut

Apr 01, 2016
 
Rated: 3.78 by TheBeerdedCharmer from Pennsylvania

Mar 13, 2016
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Reviewed by beergoot from Colorado

3.74/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
The label hypes this as a "honey beer"...so...

Deep honey amber body; thick, rocky head; slow rising filaments of carbonation gently rising; sticky globs of foam all down the glass. Sweet, honey-like aroma. There is the honey again -- mild honey flavor; brown sugar and molasses; light touch of hop bitterness. Medium body; seems rather flat and watery; gently warm; sweet finish.

A respectable, sweet brown ale with lots of emphasis on the honey angle. On the plus side, things are relatively balanced although this is definitely a sweet beer, but not quite cloyingly so.
Mar 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by DbbC from Illinois

Dec 22, 2015
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Reviewed by Foyle from North Carolina

3.4/5  rDev -5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Sampled from 16.9oz bottle in pint glass

Appearance: pours a thick off white head that drops quickly with moderate lacing. Color is clear amber with plenty of streaming carbonation.
Aroma: honey, caramel malt
Mouthfeel: medium bodied and frothy with a mostly dry finish.
Flavor: definite honey sweetness and taste of honeycomb along with bready malts and caramel with some earthy hops for balance.
Overall: good but not outstanding. I give them credit for having a honey beer where you can actually taste the honey (a rarity), however it is a bit too sweet and I think more than one of these would become cloying.
Nov 20, 2015
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Reviewed by dbrauneis from North Carolina

3.62/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours a crystal clear deep copper in color with moderate to heavy amounts of active visible carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass and moderate garnet red highlights. The beer has a finger tall sudsy foamy beige head that reduces to a mottled thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a thick ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to heavy amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Light to moderate aromas of toasted and bready malts with light amounts of honey sweetness.

T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of toasted and bready malts with a moderate amount of honey sweetness. There are some hints of light fruit yeast (apple and white grape) and a light flavor of earthy + spicy hops which imparts a light amount of bitterness in the finish which does not linger.

M: Medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation.

O: Not bad and pretty easy to drink while evoking memories of Dundee Honey Brown from the late 1990s while in grad school. Not sure I would grab it again but definitely not offensive.
Sep 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4.14 by Greg_Nall from Florida

Sep 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.53 by Huhzubendah from District of Columbia

Sep 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.02 by acropolis from Oregon

Sep 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.27 by lucky_rodent from Illinois

Sep 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.29 by Latarnik from New Jersey

Jul 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by a77cj7 from South Dakota

Jul 15, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by paulish from New York

Jun 24, 2015
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.69/5  rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a ruby amber into the mug. Nice off-white head covering the sparkling beverage. Pleasant taste. Just a touch of sweetness in the beer, well balanced overall. Yum!
Jun 24, 2015
 
Rated: 3.23 by BlueSpader from Washington

Jun 09, 2015
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Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois

3.65/5  rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
14.88oz bottle, Production Date 20.01.15; Best Before appears to be 20.01.16; 4.5% abv. Fresh on the shelves in the last couple of days. I hadn't heard anything about this series from Baltika, so I was surprised to see it.
A - bubbly ivory head fades rather quickly into a thin foam atop a golden-brown colored ale
S - sweet nose with honey malt and earthy hops
T - quite sweet with honey, brown sugar, bready malt, earthy & spicy hops
M - smooth and medium body, finishes on the sweeter side but the hops give it some much needed balance
O - this was about what I expected for this type of beer. Good representation on the style, but nothing to write home about.
May 05, 2015
Baltika Brew Collection-Russian Honey Brown from Baltika Breweries
Beer rating: 83 out of 100 with 18 ratings