Baltika 2

Today Erik Rottmann, his middle son and I fished all afternoon in his boat on the Lake of the Ozarks.  We caught nothing. But we had a nice beer waiting for us when we got back to his place.

Baltika 2 is an excellent example of the European lager.  As Erik says, “It tastes like Latvia.”

For most people that will be meaningless. But for us, Latvia is just one of the countries in which Erik and I have sampled beers, and so the shared memories of the experience describe flavors better than any words.

You can read the many eloquent reviews of beers that are out there, but perhaps the most honest way of writing about beer is simply to say, “You had to be there.”