I've visited one of my favourite wholesalers earlier and walking past the drinks section I found something that caught my eye, mostly because none of them had English labels so I was left guessing as to what they actually were.
I saw a lady loading up on these little bottles.
I've asked her what they were, she looked a bit embarrassed and said she doesn't really know how to explain it but that this one's her favourite and I should try it.
Looking at the label, I saw a 2.4% so I assumed it was some sort of weak beer, perfect for this weather so why not.
Got home and hit google up...well it seems I stumbled across a classic. This is a Kvass beer. I've never had this style before so I got excited. While it was chilling a bit of google translate told me that this one is "Made from rye bread dumplings" .
I love bread, I love beer ... there's no need to say anything else really; I was game!
Pours with a little head that doesn't last long.
Lovely light ruby colour. It smells like butter caramel. Tastes sweet but not sickly sweet, caramel notes, not as bready as I expected it to be but you can make it out, the malts are shining through and it has a lovely bitter finish to balance the sweetness off. I have no idea what the alcohol strength is though, that 2.4% was the amount of rye bread I think. Googling gives results of 0.5%. After drinking it, I think I might have had this style before; there was a little bar in my grandma's village that sold home made alcohol free beer; my cousin and I used to have that when we were kids; it had a really dark colour though but tasted very close to this.
Some people say that singing to your plants makes them grow better; well, I can tell you that they're a lot happier if you drink with them!
This will make those toms ripen way faster!
Got some yuuuge trusses formed on so many plants!
My lemon cucumbers are putting out so many of these furry balls!
By now I have thousands of these. Don't know what I'll do with all of them, going to see if the cucamelons can be pickled.
And a little view from the middle of the jungle to close things up for now.
Thanks for peeking at my post guys!
Cheers
PS: Guess who's going to brew some Kvass beer next?