Posted on 10/25/2005 11:20:10 PM PDT by jb6
Beer output in Russia rose by 4.6% in the period from January to September, against the corresponding period last year, to 694m decalitres, the Russian Brewers' Union has reported. The union was citing figures from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
The union added that beer production growth rates had been higher in the January to September period in 2004, at 12.9% year-on-year. "The drop in beer production growth rates was the result of restrictions on advertising that took effect in September 2004 in addition to the passing of the anticipated inflation level for excises on beer in 2005," the Russian Brewers’ Union said
It's the Vodka input that is the problem :-)
When I was there, many Russians liked Miller. Miller tastes like camel piss. They had no idea what micro-brews were.
I understand Russian beer makes a great paint stripper. Maybe they've expanded their marketing.AWB
I was there two months ago with my wife...we went to get a beer and there were so many new choices I pretty much so had to choose by the best looking label.
Really?
Best tell that to Heinikan (?sp). Baltika is the second best seller in Europe, after Heinikan. True paint stripper is warm, flat Beast Light or Keystone (any variety).
Please don't call beast light or keystone beer. That is just a marketing ploy to get alcoholics to drink it.:)AWB
sweetwater brew can be found in and around Atlanta. Tours are scheduled on the web site.
I read somewhere that Russian beer is 10% - 12% alcohol, and is considered a soft drink, very nearly. True?
The law which gave beer the status of soft drinks have been overruled this year (or some months more than a year I don't remember exactly).
But there was a limitation of proportion of alcohol.
Sale of beer is less restricted than sale of wine or strong alcohol, but it applies to beer of certain strength. AFAIK it's 5% vol.
Consumption of beer is regulated like consumption of other alcohol drinks now (ban to openly drink in public places, except bars and so on), but the police fail to enforce it.
Advertising has also been restricted (no ads on TV before 11 at night, no human characters). It makes major TV channels show only beer commercials after 11 pm. Some private commercials have 20 mins long ads' blocks - all about beer.
I stopped drinking those beers in college but I used to still drink Bud or Miller on and off until I got deployed to Germany and got used to drinking REAL beer....wow, flavor, taste, body...even room temperature it was good. Now I'm spoiled for life.
Yup, but most European beer is that. NC finally passed a law allowing 12% brew...yayayayyayhooooo, but I'll be moving out of the state soon enough and back into crap beer. :0( I drank 20% beer in Germany, Bache Beer, something the monks brew and sell only on Easter and Christmas (and the month before them).
Eeehhh? I was walking down the streets of Moscow with my wife, two months ago, drinking beer, along with everyone else. Walked by a bunch of cops, not a glance from them.
It's illegal anyway. They should have fined you. The police just don't do anything about it. But is there sense doing otherwise when 70% of men openly drink beer in the street?
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