I won’t drink a beer that is called lame beak. Are you kidding me? A beer named goose? Is it egg-flavored? I’m sticking with my laijer.

reverse osmosis. try Ecosoft. it’s a Ukrainian brand.

Auchan still operates in russia. https://leave-russia.org/auchan

the best birthday present for my wife

I have just answered your question: corruption.

well… maybe we wouldn’t. the EU membership will make it harder to steal both for the greens and for petya+whoever is next. they are all capable of promising the EU membership forever until the end of times.

yeah, 40 drones outside Kyiv right now. it’s loud here.

Ukrainian Viking blood has been boiling since 2014.

hey, that’s my girlfriend Sai Lormoon! where did you get her photo?!

yeah, it was just a flashmob

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 :)

https://sh.itjust.works/post/34562886/17365211

• 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:

• 9.5/10 - SHO Brewery - Kysil This year’s new hit. Named after a fruited beverage Kysil, this smoothie pastry sour with sour-cherry pure with hibiscus and cinnamon blew the whole craft beer scene away. SHO Brewery is a Mykolaiv-based brewery with a wide variety of beers and brave experiments. Mykolaiv is a frontline on Kherson’s direction, if you are interested, so the city is under constant heavy fire. ~3.8 EUR a liter

Oops, it seems I’m a pasty sour soul :) Tell me if you want to know more about the Ukrainian craft beer scene :)

I can’t name less than 12 favourite beers

I wish it remained a Ukrainian unicorn company

unfortunately not so many people boycott these companies even here in Ukraine.

it’s a russian game.

here in Kyiv, if you don’t know what present to get for a person, you just grab a set of Dodo socks, and the person will be 100% happy. I have at least 15 pairs already, and I only buy them for someone else but not for myself :D

thank you for buying our Ukrainian domestic products!

thank you for not letting this go and supporting our domestic Ukrainian products <3