Solodovoy Originalniy
Korund ZAO

Comes in a tall brown bottle with a long tapered neck and a green and gold label featuring the company's trademark L in the middle. The back text extols the purity of the product, without any extra ingredients, yet the ingredients list includes sugar. The best before stamp was smudged to unreadibility.

Pours a cloudy pale orange/dark yellow under a thin half finger off-white head that quickly fizzles to nothing, leaving no traces. Bread and sweet fruit nose, mainly plum and grape. The mouth is light and fairly prickly. The taste is mild but reasonably pleasant, dominated by the malt but with a touch of fructose at the opening. Hops creep through in the finish, adding a refreshingly dry, ever so slightly bitter note, which lingers in the aftertaste. It's drinkable, if not exciting.