Nicola Cranberry Kvass (Никола Клюквенный Квас)
Deka Brewery
- From:
- Deka Brewery
- Russia
- Style:
- Kvass
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 5.31%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 14, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.52/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A thanks to the Czar of the Kvass kick, woodychandler, for this beer. Poured from a brown plastic bottle. Has a black color with no head at all. Smell is of dark fruits and breads. Taste is dark breads, cranberry, light sweetness, refreshing. Feels medium boded in the mouth and overall is a decent beer.
Mar 14, 2019
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.84/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Happy New Russian Beer (?) Sunday (Week 729), comrades! I began with getting Stoned, but now I am moving intoMother Russia. This is the real thing, yo! Straight from Bell's Market in PHL where English is a second language & the beautiful Russkie women will check you out as they are checking you out. I LOVE visiting that store!
There are a number of forces at work here. First & foremost is that Russian Kvass is barely alcoholic, hence a long-ago debate as begun by @UCLABruin & settled when it was decided that its inherent, albeit slight alcohol content was meritorious of inclusion. That, plus how often do you get to dabble in Russian? Frankly, I am fascinated by their culture, their foods, their drink, their dress, their language (both spoken & written) & most especially, their women. The blonde beauties that descend from the Caucuses & the Urals are no less than stunning!
From the (plastic) Bottle: "Live(ly) Fermented".
I unscrewed the top with no compunction nor animosity. "Nikola" means "NOT Cola", but it is razor-close to being so. My pour created a brief moment of fizzy, foamy, light-tan head & then it was gone, never to be heard from again. 8=( Color was Brown to Dark Brown (SRM = > 22, < 27) with NE-quality clarity & … cola (!) highlights! Hey, who's zoomin' who, here? No, really, cola is a shade & while Kvass is not cola, it mirrors it closely mirrors it. Nose was not for the uninitiated. It smelled of rising rye bread dough, treacle, tangy cranberry, sour mash (like a combination of sourdough & pre-distilled bourbon) & raisins. Whoa! This is what it is supposed to smell like, though. The Russians are firm believers in "Waste Not, Want Not" & so as their national staple, Rye bread begins to go stale, it is soaked with raisins, yeast & sugar to begin a refermentation which can the be drank. I have had authentic Kvass in Brighton Beach, NYC & it is a tart, thirst-quenching drink, to be sure. This one was even more so, thanks to the inclusion of cranberries. Begin by thinking of Cherry Coke, next add cranberries, then soak it in rye bread, Get the idea? It's very foreign to us as Americans, but for the Russians, it is a staple. Finish was dry, but was it tart? Sour? Sour, tart & bready? Pretty much all of the above. It may not get you where you are going, but it is an interesting drink.
Feb 10, 2019There are a number of forces at work here. First & foremost is that Russian Kvass is barely alcoholic, hence a long-ago debate as begun by @UCLABruin & settled when it was decided that its inherent, albeit slight alcohol content was meritorious of inclusion. That, plus how often do you get to dabble in Russian? Frankly, I am fascinated by their culture, their foods, their drink, their dress, their language (both spoken & written) & most especially, their women. The blonde beauties that descend from the Caucuses & the Urals are no less than stunning!
From the (plastic) Bottle: "Live(ly) Fermented".
I unscrewed the top with no compunction nor animosity. "Nikola" means "NOT Cola", but it is razor-close to being so. My pour created a brief moment of fizzy, foamy, light-tan head & then it was gone, never to be heard from again. 8=( Color was Brown to Dark Brown (SRM = > 22, < 27) with NE-quality clarity & … cola (!) highlights! Hey, who's zoomin' who, here? No, really, cola is a shade & while Kvass is not cola, it mirrors it closely mirrors it. Nose was not for the uninitiated. It smelled of rising rye bread dough, treacle, tangy cranberry, sour mash (like a combination of sourdough & pre-distilled bourbon) & raisins. Whoa! This is what it is supposed to smell like, though. The Russians are firm believers in "Waste Not, Want Not" & so as their national staple, Rye bread begins to go stale, it is soaked with raisins, yeast & sugar to begin a refermentation which can the be drank. I have had authentic Kvass in Brighton Beach, NYC & it is a tart, thirst-quenching drink, to be sure. This one was even more so, thanks to the inclusion of cranberries. Begin by thinking of Cherry Coke, next add cranberries, then soak it in rye bread, Get the idea? It's very foreign to us as Americans, but for the Russians, it is a staple. Finish was dry, but was it tart? Sour? Sour, tart & bready? Pretty much all of the above. It may not get you where you are going, but it is an interesting drink.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.38/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Kljukvennyj translates to "cranberries", and they're certainly present in this version of Deka's Nicola Kvas.
It's clearer than many examples of kvas, and it has a definite ruby cast to it. Crimson highlight gleam when you hold it to the light. As expected, the carbonation level is kept quite low, and it only produces a minor ring of light tan on the surface along the rim of the glass.
The nose is surprisingly limited. There are suggestions of the typical "rye bread and molasses" kvas aroma, but it seems watered down. I'd have to guess that this is simply the standard version of the Nicola with a certain amount of cranberry "liquid" added to it. That would explain the aroma, and the lighter, redder color in its appearance.
The flavor, however, clearly shows the cranberry, and I'm surprised it doesn't come through stronger in the aroma. It's not too tart; and really, it could be any berry flavor... it could even pass for cherry. But it's a refreshing and playful note that's not normally found in kvas, and so it's slightly more interesting.
Overall I think I'd prefer a straight-forward kvas over this one, but I could see how this might be nice on a very warm summer day. Worth trying.
Jul 14, 2011It's clearer than many examples of kvas, and it has a definite ruby cast to it. Crimson highlight gleam when you hold it to the light. As expected, the carbonation level is kept quite low, and it only produces a minor ring of light tan on the surface along the rim of the glass.
The nose is surprisingly limited. There are suggestions of the typical "rye bread and molasses" kvas aroma, but it seems watered down. I'd have to guess that this is simply the standard version of the Nicola with a certain amount of cranberry "liquid" added to it. That would explain the aroma, and the lighter, redder color in its appearance.
The flavor, however, clearly shows the cranberry, and I'm surprised it doesn't come through stronger in the aroma. It's not too tart; and really, it could be any berry flavor... it could even pass for cherry. But it's a refreshing and playful note that's not normally found in kvas, and so it's slightly more interesting.
Overall I think I'd prefer a straight-forward kvas over this one, but I could see how this might be nice on a very warm summer day. Worth trying.
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