Beer Post #2

I share tonight's brew with Sergey! We're enjoying a Ziberta beer, produced by Obolon, which is Ukraine's largest brewery. Ziberta is less commonly known around here than other Ukrainian beers, because it is a newly launched premium brand. The one that Sergey is holding is a traditional German heffe weissen called, Klasychne Nimetske Pshenychne. It's the best Ukrainian beer in this style that I have tried. Try it with sausage and pickles! It is a little more expensive than other Ukrainian beers, H3.60 ($0.72) per half liter. Yummy.

Here's an excerpt from Company News about the newly launched Ziberta brand, "Alcoholic Beverages Kyiv
based Obolon, one of Ukraine’s four largest beer manufacturers, launched a new beer under the trade
mark Kolektsyia Ziberta. The trademark includes three types of beer: Klasychne Nimetske Pshenychne, Klasychne Fla
mandske Bile and Klasychne Angliyske Porter. Obolon is positioning the new brand on the market as a premium brand. The company said that the launch of the new trademark was prompted by growth of the premium sector in Ukraine’s beer market. Obolon also plans to invest Hr 150 million ($30 million) into the construction of a malt
ing plant in Khmelnytskiy Region and launch its operation in autumn 2007. The capacity of the Ukrainian beer mar
ket is estimated at 145
150 million dec
aliters a year. Obolon increased beer production by almost 11%, to nearly 94 million deciliters, in 2006 compared with the year before." (sorry for the goofing squares, I can't get rid of them).

Thanks, Sergey, for having a brew with us tonight! You can meet Sergey Miroshnikov on Facebook. He's a very good babysitter, too! Thanks again, S.