Tinkov Royal Russian Pilsner
Tinkoff Brewery

I honestly bought this for the bottle. Very cool design.
The beer poured a pale amber, much darker than i expected, with a thick, frothy white head.
Aroma is maltier than i anticipated, with more weight on the hops. A bit of toasty malt, fairly clean, and a moderate spicy herbal hoppiness.
The flavor itself reminded me of a helles or export style, not a pilsener. Heavier that I expected. Malty, with moderate hops coming through in the end, but not too much. A light spicy peppery flavor. I drank this with sushi hand rolls, and it complimented it well.
I'm happy with my purchase, but I doubt I'll make a habit of this stuff. There's hundreds of better beers out there.

Straw colored yellow, 1/3" white head. Aroma of some barley, not much else.

Taste might as well be an AAL, nothing really discernable German about this, or pilsner. Not horrible, no off flavors, its just another watery, easy drinking, highly carbonated, yellow beer that is short on malt, yeast and hops. I take that back, there is a slight yeast fruitiness going on here.

Very clear light yellow. Aroma nonexistant.

Its really similar to every other yellow beer in this style out there. Carbonation trying to pump up the hops, no malt, yeast gives just the slightest dallop of fruitiness. A 'refreshing' beer only because it really emphasizes the water.

I give it drinkability points because it is cheap and in a cool bottle.

On sale at BevMo for a shamelessly low price. What the hell. Pours clear yeallow, weak white head. Corny, grainy aroma. Taste was sweeter, saaz-like sweet hops and light grain. Light and enjoyable. Good on a hot day. Every beer has its place. I would put this in the same category as a Dos Equis or Corona.

A - this pilsener pours a straw color, with a thin white head, moderate carbonation

S - sweet malty honey-like aroma, there's also a background of a ginger spiciness to it

T - weak-bodied, but nice flavor, a light sweetness and hoppiness

M - nice hoppiness vs. sweetness balance, highly impressed, body is weak, but other than that its very good

D - highly poundable, high drinkability, easy down brew

First of all, I love the bottle this came in. The graphic design has a very communist propaganda look to it.

Appearance: Honey/apple juice yellow with a jasmine green tea tint. White, fizzy head with mediocre retention. Against the light, flaky/grainy floating bits and vibrant, hypnotic strings of carbonation can be seen.

Smell: Smells of honey, unrefined sugar, malts, chlorophyll, a touch of grassy hops and white wine, and a drop of maple. Has a bit of a musty character, as well.

Taste: A jumble of sweet flavors: honey, cotton candy, rum, and white grape juice. Very mild hop character reminds me a bit of iceberg lettuce. Sweet, sticky finish.

Mouthfeel: Thin and surprisingly flat.

Drinkability: This is too sweet for my tastes... I couldn't drink very many of these. But if you prefer a more saccharine lager, this might be for you.

11.2 oz bottle no freshness date, but a nifty painted on lable.

Hazy golden in color, fizzy white head. Lots of carbonation.

Grainy aroma.

Lightly sweet malty flavor with a tinny and slightly bitter aftertaste.

wasn't terrible, but this sample cost me $2.49. If it was more like $5 for a six pack I might consider purchasing again.

Light yellow in color with minimal white head. Strong carbonation. Looks more like a soda than a beer. Low on appearance. Faint floral aroma with grainy malt background. Taste is really hurt by strong carbonation. Not a very pleasant mouthfeel. I had the pleasure to try Victory Prima Pils recently and Tinkov pilsner fails in comparison. This beer is like a very good version of macro beer, but a below average version of pilsner. I got a kick out of trying it (mostly because of cool bottle design), but I won't be searching this out again any time soon.

The beer pours a hazy pale gold color with a thick frothy white head that slowly fades to lacing. The aroma is good. It has a nice pale and bisquit malt aroma that is earthy and slightly sweet. The hop content is low. The taste is decent. It has a semi-sweet pale malt flavor with a dry bisquity finish. It's light with an earthy feel. The mouthfeel is fine. It is a low bodied beer with adequate carbonation. This is a good pilsner. I love the aroma as well as the taste. It's different from most in that there actually seems to be some malt complexity. This is a fine sessions beer.

Pours out pale straw and sits a bright faint yellow in the glass with a large soapy white head fading to a faint skim, holding strong on the sides leaving a good coat of lacing on the glass.

Smells big and crisp up front. Sharp grainy nose with boatloads of grassiness.

Crackery flavors build up the malt caracter, just think saltines and you're already there. Solid hop bitterness driven by mid-summer's grassy flavors, dry and sharp. Basic duality system here, well-played out.

Very light and sharp, crisp carbonation. A basic pils I guess, nothing real exciting.

Nice white head, a little chill haze, and seemingly flow carbonation. Some lacing. Slightly muddy nose, some herbal hops and a good dose of malt. This is a malt driven pilsner. Not too much hop presence at all except for some grassiness up front and a VERY faint lingering bitterness. Malt is doughy, but with very little sweetness. Finish is quick but not crisp. There is very little aftertaste. I haven’t seen this little since my taste of Bud Select. Body is fine as is the carbonation. Not too much going on here.

I can’t blame the Russians for bringing in beer from England!

Pours a light yellow with a decent head. The smell is of grain and dewy grass, hints of yeast. The taste is funky, bits of grain and dough, not much doing. No real hops to speak of. Not the best pilsner I've had, isn't refreshing and clean, won't return to this beer.

Pours a hazy golden brew with abundant carbonation.

Smell is sweet toasted grain and hay smells very malty.

Taste is sweet with a strong hop level to keep it in check. Mild smoky flavor and a floral hop flavor. Flavor goes sweet then floral and then smoke and ends with a mild bitterness.

Mouthfeel is OK.

Tasty drinkable brew, worth about $7 a sixer.

This beer makes part of what i like to call, nowadays, the "bogota airlift": i've been isolated from the beer world in colombia, and now all quality (apart from the bogota beer company, but that falls into another category) i get is from my family's travel abroad every month or so to the states or europe.

I guess i got the wrong beer, cos mine was actually cloudy, a tan, honeyish tonality with a medium white, sorta thick head which looked nice. I was fooled for a second there.

The smell pitched a combination of scents, ranging from a slight metallic feel of the pilsners to that malty background of some pale ales. still fooled by then. could it be the russians finally did *something* right?

Nope. taste proved me wrong. although it was not all that bad, mixing a certain sweetness into your regular sorta pilsner that rather enhanced it and made it more drinkable. still, this doesn't overcome the fact that it still holds many macro-like mediocre properties in taste and mouthfeel, as drinkability, and doesn't seem to be in the future repertoire of the Bogota Airlift (BA..errr...)

Pours out a golden clear liquid with a thin white fizz of a "heaad." Some light struck from the clear bottle. Fizzy mouthfeel with harsh grainy malt flavors coming through along with a strange bitter sensation. Worth skipping over this beer as it does not have many redeming qualities.

The only word to decribe this beer is disappointment. It pours, smells and taste like carbonated water. IMHO, the big three would reject this brew. Lots of fizzy, soft drink carbonation on the pour with a big bubble head that disappears in the blink of an eye. At best, the aroma had a faint fragrance of a grainy malt. The taste was a watery bland malt in the absence of hops. Drinkability for me was none existent; down the sink after half a glass. Pilsner is my favor style brew and this was poorest pilsner imitation I have had to date.

The Tinkov brewery is a modern company with sexy television ads and the bottles to go with it. The silk-screened, retro-looking Lenin-esqe label in primary red, blue and grey with a twist-off cap gives the impression that this is a hip, throwback beer, whereas it's really just a bottle full of average Russian lager aimed at the export markets. That said, it pours a clear golden body beneath a short head of thin, bright-white froth that fades shortly to an average collar and leaves only minor, transient lace about the glass. The nose is fairly basic with a combination of spicy, herbal and slightly floral hops over a subtly sweet and grainy malt. There are some mild, dialkyl sulfides (cooked vegetable, tomato juice) and some dimethyl sulfide (canned sweet corn) but they're somewhat limited. The body is light-medium and its fine-bubbled, moderate carbonation leaves it smooth across the palate. The flavor reitereates what the nose suggests with dms apparent at the start amidst it's slightly husky graininess. Grassy, spicy and herbal hops appear at the swallow, and its firm bitterness helps to dry the finish although some sticky malt lingers. However, some mild cooked vegetable and a touch of dms, linger as well; thankfully balanced after a few moments by the longer lingering herbal hops. Beautifully made bottle - poorly made beer.

Appearance – Light orange in color with a decent head that went down quickly.

Smell – The floral hopping is strong and I can pick up some light fruiting, but that’s about it.

Taste – The sour malt overtakes this one, giving it an overpowering tangy flavor.

Mouthfeel – Flat and thin and very sour in the mouth. This one will pucker you up.

Sinkability – If it wasn’t spicy Mexican night, this one would be in the sink for sure.

A golden yellow color with a decent white head that is creamy in texture, the lace a somewhat thin sheet to almost cover the glass. All malt nose sweet as is the start, thin to medium feel at the top. Finish is nicely carbonated, but lacks ant real hop spiciness, and the aftertaste dry as a desert bone, nothing to write home about, actually sub-par in my book of lagers/pils.

I'm going to assume that this is the same beer as the Tinkiv Lager. I don't think it is, but the line between lagers and Pilsners fron Russia is a little nebulous. Light gold color, small head. Light tasting, slightly maltly, not very hoppy. Not a lot of taste. Mouthfeel is neutral. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is neutral. Not much to this beer. Etched beer bottle.