Solodoff Svetloe
Krasny Vostok

500 ml bottle. This beer pours out a clear, light yellow color with fizzy, white head that fades to nothing. Nasty vegetable aroma that gets worse as the beer warms. The flavor starts off sweet with a vaguely malty flavor. Vegetable off-flavors are present, but kept to a minimum. Just a hint of hops. Watery, thin mouthfeel. This beer is not terrible, but it's a bad sign when you start wishing the beer you're drinking came in a smaller bottle.

Clear gold without much luster, sporting a giddy white froth that recedes slowly. It looks the part.
Nose of sweet potatoes, graham crackers, and soggy stems.
Begins with a snap of pils malt, all crackery and dry, then it fades towards a starchy sense of potatoes again. Leans a touch sweet with ideations of creamed corn. Watery through the midsection, not necessarily in that well-lagered brisk notion, but just plain and bland. On the plus note, all off flavors cease, as it concludes with a undistinct feeble brown leaf hoppiness, and general vapidness.
Light and fizzy in the mouth. It's drinkable, to a certain extent. And I've had worse dirt-cheap Russian lagers, but "sorta inoffensive, but not really" is about the kindest thing I can say here.