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I can't name less than 12 favourite beers
Smh
https://sh.itjust.works/post/34562886/17365211
Alright, name them!
10/10 - Omnipollo - Triple Karpologi
9.7/10 - Volta Brewery - ACAB: All Craftlovers Ale Beautiful Sour with orange, guava, mango, maracuja, and sweet cherry. Volta Brewery is based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The previous batch was with an average price of ~4.5 EUR a liter.
9.4/10 - Funky Fluid - Thomas Gelato: Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte
9.5/10 - Ten Men Brewery - NOT FOR BREAKFAST CHERRY CHEESECAKE Ten Men Brewery was based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, near the border with russia. After the invasion, they moved to Lviv, Ukraine, and then temporarily closed. Three-quarters of their beers are my 8.5+/10. Mostly Sour/Smoothie. I'd fill in at least 5 favorites to this list from them alone. They are very well-known pastry sour/smoothie/gose professionals. 4+ average on Untappd is huge. Recently they started emerging again on Instagram with a new collaboration in Europe, I assume. You can follow them there and hopefully eventually taste them locally. The average price for their pastry sours was ~2.8 EUR per 0.5 can.
8.5/10 - Tsypa Brewery - Black Barley Wine-barrel-aged barleywine. Tsypa (Ципа) means a gentle name for the word "chicken". The brewery is based in Kvasy, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (literally "Kvas Village"). They are not very famous but appreciated for their very light gose. Also, their Sour Beer Dark and Sour Beer Pale (stupid naming) are also wine-barrel-aged, but sours. Very good. 8.5/10. And of course, their Kvasne gose lineup, named after their village: Cucumber, Cabbage, Sour-cherry, Raspberry, Thyme. 7.5/10. I drink them during the hot season here in Kyiv, Ukraine. Average price ~1.8 EUR per 0.33 bottle.
8.0/10 - Red Cat Brewery - Tomato Sour Another brewery from the Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Despite being close to the russian border, they are still operating. I love their tomato lineup: Tomato + Tabasco Sour, TOMATO+BBQ, TOMATO+Habanero, TOMATO+Сhipotle, Tomato + Basil, and others. My favorite one is Lecho tomato smoothie 8.5/10. Average price ~3EUR a liter.
8.5/10 - Varvar Brew - Captain Salt Traditional Sour Gose with only sea salt in it. Perfect for newcomers that still don't understand ""flavored"" beers. Varvar Brew is a Kyiv-based brewery, one of the first craft breweries in Ukraine. 1.5 EUR per 0.33 bottle
9.5/10 - PLEMYA - Kapisce Marshmallow Smoothie Style Imperial Pastry Fruited Gose. The highest-rated beer in Ukraine with a 4.46/5 average. Berry smoothie with marshmallow texture. It is as tasty as it is named. ~4.4 EUR a liter, if you are interested.
I can go on forever, but let's stop on the last, but definitely not least:
Oops, it seems I'm a pasty sour soul :) Tell me if you want to know more about the Ukrainian craft beer scene :)
That list looks epic. I've donated to your army and would love to try Ukrainian beer. Wonder if it's legal to ship it to the U.S.?
Also I don't hate all pastry stouts just the overly sweet ones. There's a brewery in Maine called Mastlanding that makes a good PB&J Stout
I doubt it's illegal to send cans of liquid to the US by mail, but I am sure you have some kind of craft beer aggregator like https://beerfreak.org/en/ that hauls a huge variety of beers from the whole world and sells them locally. Try looking up for one! And no, you won't be impressed by the typical Ukrainian lagers/pilsners with anything but price. But they are easy to find. And please come to Ukraine after the war, live here for a few months, and taste everything you can. I'll help :)