beer
Chapters: 1
The Beginning Was Sour
Summer 1993. MEPhI student Roman Peskov is taking his exams while working part-time as a night watchman.
Notes: 3
A Volume of 0.33 Liters
The 0.33-liter bottle size has a foreign origin. Its history traces back to the US: during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Pepsi-Cola began…
Moskvoretskoye Beer
The Moskvoretsky brewery operated in Moscow from 1959 to 2005. Construction began in 1939 but was interrupted by the war. In the 1970s it became an…
Murphy's Irish Stout: the "chocolate river" Roman loses himself in at the pub
A dark, creamy Cork-brewed stout that became an exotic status symbol in early-1990s Russia -- its history, its rivalry with Guinness, and the…