August 2021

This post is dedicated to our friend from sunny Dilijan! I don’t know who it could be (obviously not Rubik Hachikian), but so be it. I don’t seem to have…

As many people know, and those who don’t, I’ll inform you, Volkoff Brewery comes in many forms. “Big” – what is brewed at the IPC facilities and “small” – brewed…

I remember the times when BrewDog was first imported to Russia (I think Carabus was carrying it) and how it ended up being sold at Ashan for 60 rubles, since…

Once again I want to say – smoothies and different tomato gozos are of course delicious, but I don’t dare to rate them as beer. There’s very little of the…

History is cyclical. Beer fashion is cyclical, too. In its inception, craft breweries brewed anything as long as it wasn’t a light lager. Right now, most craft breweries have either…

If anyone hasn’t watched the Sharp Trumps series, I highly recommend it, unless of course you’re at all opposed to the modern TV series format. And for those who have…

Talk about our ale, Mochnatit Shmel (Furry Bumblebee). Back in the spring, the IPC announced an unfiltered version of it, but for some reason I still haven’t seen it anywhere…

Discovered this beer at the Verny store. At first I thought it was something from STM, like Lander Bräu from Dutch Swinkels or similar. When they make something imported here,…

Once again, we have a regional German beer – Schwarzwald Michel. This time, from the Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu brewery. It seems that soon, we’ll be sampling all of Germany’s beers without…