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Baltika Brewery (Baltic Beverages Holdings) is a Russian brewery based in Saint Petersberg. The Neva river has been called the main street of St Petersburg Saint Petersburg   listen? (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at...

Brief details

Baltic Beverage Holdings (BBH), is a joint venture of the Finnish bevarage company Hartwall and its Norwegian partner, Orkla. Baltika began production in 1990. Hartwall is a bewerage company based in Helsinki, Finland. ... The Orkla Group is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate which regards the Nordic region as its domestic market. ... This article is about the year. ...

Baltika has five breweries, in Saint Petersburg, Habarovsk, Tula, Rostov-na-Donu and Samara. Their combined output totals 24 million hectoliteres per year. Along with the Baltika plants, the BBH consortium operates ten smaller breweries producing its Yarpivo, Pikra and Vena brands. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) (population 582,700) is the capital city of the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, some 30 km from the Chinese border. ... Places named Tula include: Tula, Russia Tula, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico Tula is also the professional name of model-cum-actress Caroline Cossey. ... The kremlin in Rostov Rostov (Russian: Росто́в) is one of the oldest towns in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. ... Samara (fruit) — a type of winged tree fruit Samara, Russia — a large city to the east of the Volga River. ...

Beers

Baltika produce a range of beers under the Baltika, Arsenalnoe and Leningradskoe brand names.

Baltika beers are marketed in 38 contries, and have earned the company 207 million dollars in profit in 2004. Baltika (Балтика) beers are popular in Russia and the CIS. CIS is an abbreviation of: Commonwealth of Independent States Canadian Interuniversity Sport Contact Image Sensor CompuServe Information Service Chinese International School Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars) Continuous injection system Communication Information Services Card Information Structure Cisalpino See also uses of the word cis. ...

Baltika 6 is a bottom fermented 7% abv dark beer that the brewery class as a porter. Such strong dark lagers are often termed Baltic porters. Alcohol by volume (ABV) is an indication of how much alcohol (expressed as a percentage) is included in an alcoholic beverage. ...

Baltika 3 is a 4.8% pale lager. This is also known as Klassicheskoe (Classic). A half drunk pint of lager Lager is also a word with similar etymology meaning a camp, which is often used as a short form of Konzentrationslager (concentration camp). ...

Baltika 4 is a 5.6% amber coloured lager. Such coloured lagers are often termed Vienna. This is also known as Originalnoe (Original).

See also

• Category:Beer and breweries by region

External links

• The Official Website of Baltika Beer
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