Chișinău Blondă
Efes Vitanta Moldova Brewery - Chisinau Bere

May 2014: Shared can at local tasting. Pale golden colour, moderate white head. Aroma of grass and candy. Fizzy mouthfeel, light bodied. Medium sweet flavour, some grassy hops. Could have been worse.

Pours clear with a delightful honeyed hop aroma. There’s a low bitterness with a crisp finish. Surprisingly enjoyable, although truth be told I only picked this up to add to my country count.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A: Pours a crystal clear pale golden yellow in color with slightly heavier than moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising quickly from the bottom of the glass and moderate bright yellow + straw yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall sudsy foamy bright white head that reduces to a handful of small patches of medium thick film surrounded by a large patch of thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Slightly heavier than moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of cracker + bready + grainy malts with a light amount of grainy sweetness. Light aromas of grassy + citrus/grapefruit zest hops and a light to moderate aroma of lager yeast.

T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of cracker + bready + grainy malts with a light amount of grainy sweetness. That is followed by slightly heavier than light flavors of lager yeast. Finally there are light flavors of grassy + citrus/grapefruit zest hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away leaving a clean finish.

M: Light to medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Crisp with a clean finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a crisp + refreshing mouthfeel. More enjoyable than I was expecting but not something that I would seek out again.

Taste: crisp cracker, slight citrus, airy mouthfeel, champagne finish. Yeast bread and lemony nose. Bright gold, clear, foamy white head some lace. medium light body.

Had both on-draft and poured from a bottle during a trip to Moldova

L: Crystal clear light golden pour. Thick fizzy white head. Falls fast with some lacing.

S: Mild nose... grains and grassy hops.

T/F: Pretty mild... light grains and mild hops. Grass and faint citrus. Relatively clean/crisp. Light and with fizzy carbonation. Goes down easily.

O: A below average beer... but if you're in Moldova they go down super easy and have the virtues of being cheap and readily available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decent lager, nothing special. tastes a lot like Efes Draft.

 

Pours out a clear gold with fluffy white foam.

Pale malts and actually the faintest touch of some hop that provides some bitterness and grass.

Light and bubbly on the tongue.

Pretty nice for a beer on the blander side.