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My Experiences With Russian Beer-
While We Were Living In Belarus.

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Some time passed during intervals-
between beer reviews.

Total time covered in Vitebsk:
during this journal was about 1 year.

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Black Prince

Enjoying a beer last night after we got all finished with work. I bought a new beer to try, called Black Prince. This is a dark beer made here in Belarus, tried one bottle. This stuff is OK, amazing it has 15% alcohol. I've never had a beer with that much alcohol to my knowledge. Interesting taste, I would go very easy with this stuff. Cost is reasonable at about 47 cents per 1/2 liter bottle. The weather turned much colder, nasty wind yesterday and so far today. We hope to get back to that mild weather. We walk to a small indoor Kiosk, a very small store about a 5 minute walk from here. This is where I get interesting beer, and a few other things we need.

It's run by Olga and her husband, some very nice people. Olga speaks English, it's great to stop in and say hello. She has an employee who is married but who has a sister who wants to join our agency. Olga knows her family, tells us they are good people. She will soon come over for her first interview.

It's nice speaking English with Olga. Her husband does not speak English. 
Very hard working, good people.
Baltika

Speaking about the Super Bowl and beer, since I got here I have found one of the best tasting dark beers ever. It's made in Russia, the name is "Baltika." They have different numbers, I prefer the dark #6. Great stuff. I shall stock up and enjoy while following the Super Bowl on this damn computer. Alex turned me onto this beer when we got to Minsk last month. He bought me a "mini keg," which we hauled on the train from Minsk to Vitebsk. I'm sure we turned a few heads as we went past people with the keg. 
This is the label on the keg, which contains #7 only, a light beer.
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Perhaps I should add a category to the rating system for our Russian women. It would go something like this. "Her attitude and acceptance of her future husband to be able to have a few Baltikas, watch a good football game, scream at the TV, and not be angry about that." Any rating over a 10, or average, in this category would simply Require any guy with any common sense at all to drop everything at once, get over here and Propose to this Russian Woman At Once!

You know when you just want to sit back, relax, have a beer and enjoy yourself the big question all us guys face is, which beer? This was the challenge facing me last night. Nina and I took a walk down to see our friends at our little convenience store, actually Nina and all the other Russian people were walking, I was sliding.
The people watching me try to walk on the ice must be thinking to themselves, "There goes that idiot American again, trying to find his footing." At least they are kind and keep those thoughts to themselves. Anyway, we go to the store, Olga and Viktor and the gang are all there, the dilemma hits me in the face. Which beer?
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Anyone following our newsletter knows our friend Alex turned me on to "Baltika" beer, #6 is my favorite, the very dark beer. Thank you Alex! The problem last night was Olga and Viktor only had one Baltika #6, so the dilemma deepened. Viktor suggested Yaroslavl, so I got a few. Interesting that Nina was born in Yaroslavl Russia, a town about 150 miles north of Moscow. Yaroslavl is where this beer is made, hence the name.

On these cans, the wording on the name is a Russian letter "YA"..then a Russian letter "R"..which looks like our "P"..and then "Pero," or beer. So the name has the first two letters of Yaroslavl, then beer, meaning Yaroslavl Beer.
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This beer is also a dark beer, but only about 50% as dark as Baltika #6. It is a lighter beer, not as rich or full flavored as Baltika. Still quite good.

Had a nice relaxing evening, Nina and I had a nice discussion about life in the USA verses life in Belarus. We have had many discussions comparing life in the two countries. Most of these discussions start out by talking about the differences between the two places.
Most of these conversations end up with the both of us realizing how similar life is between the two countries. Interesting small differences, some slight cultural differences of course. In general people live, work, raise families. Just like people do around the world.

Afanassey

Dark bottle with a green label (some with red label as shown below) with picture of a smiling farmer on the label. The name of the beer is actually an old Russian name, not used much anymore according to Nina. The top smaller label has a small picture of a ship that is difficult to see. When the beer is cooled down to about +12 degrees Celcius, the little ship becomes dark and much more easy to see. Your beer is now ready to drink. This is a slightly dark beer, but much lighter than Baltika #6. Nice flavor, just a tad sweet, very nice and light. Alcohol content is 4.8%, density listed on the bottle is 14%. Made in Tver, Russia. Nice beer. I need to do a follow up test as soon as possible.

The ship which turns color when the beer is cold enough is in the small circle in the small top label.
It does not scan, sorry.
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Fat Man

The name on the bottle sounds like "tolstyak." The literal meaning is of course "Fat Man." Made in Perm & Saransk, the label is light brown with the picture of a happy fat guy holding a mug of beer. Alcohol content is 6.1%, density is 14%. Nice tasting beer. Label says "In the company of friends, a good mood guaranteed." That's the best of our translation abilities. Similar to Afanasey above, a good light beer if you want to enjoy a few. Slightly higher alcohol content, not offensive to the taste.

Yaroslavl Original

The "original" is a light beer. See above for the darker beer of the same name. Green can, says "original" in English. Alcohol content is 4.7%, density is 11%. Good light beer with rich flavor. Not at all like American light beers which basically taste like watered down crap. To me all the big name light beers in the USA taste bad. Bud Light, Miller Light, so on down the list. This beer has a full flavor, nice light density, good all around beer. Comes in 1/2 liter cans, tastes as good to me as bottled beer. I recommend this beer.
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