{"id":10036,"date":"2024-03-13T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:02:26","slug":"craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft Beers on Form at Forma Bar Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good beer in a vintage-inspired bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>13 March 2024 ~ Craft Beers on Form at Forma Bar Kaliningrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Those of us in the UK who are firm believers in the importance of preserving traditions and the history of our country, and who do their bit in this regard by paying homage to, and overpaying for the beer in, one of the oldest legacies of our country\u2019s heritage, I am talking about the British pub, will be well acquainted with such familiar pub names as the King\u2019s Arms, Nag\u2019s Head, Fox and Hounds etc, and had you been around in the 1980s and 90s the fad of renaming pubs with silly names, such as the Slug and Lettuce and Goose and Firkin, but in all your days of pub frequenting you may never have come across any drinking establishment, be it a pub or a bar, that goes by the name of Form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Craft Beers on Form at Forma Bar Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Form is a malleable word with manifold definitions, as any search through online dictionaries testify. One of the simpler meanings is that of a hard, plain bench, the more complicated &nbsp;reserved for the exotic world of aesthetics. Then there\u2019s \u2018he\u2019s got form\u2019, which is, in police parlance, another way of saying he\u2019s done time, which is another way of saying he\u2019s been in the nick, which is another way of saying that he has been in prison. &nbsp;But whether \u2018form\u2019 has to do with a hard-arsed bench or is recognition of a criminal record, one thing we know for certain is that Form is the name of a Kaliningrad bar that sits next door to the Yeltsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In short, the Yeltsin and Form are geographical neighbours, located either in the same building or one that is joined and adjacent. I have not quite made up my mind which of the two it is, as usually when I visit them I have downed a pint or two, which seems to a certain extent to demagnetise my compass. Suffice it to say, for arguments sake, that the space between the two establishments is less than a stone\u2019s throw away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This convenience of vicinity does not automatically mean that once you have found the Yeltsin, you have also found Form. The Yeltsin has a belter of a sign and sits prominently on the cusp of a junction which, at certain times of the day,&nbsp; is fairly heaving with traffic. So, if you are looking out for bars, the Yeltsin is hard to miss, and those that say it isn\u2019t should hurry along to SpecSavers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Conversely, its bedfellow, Form, has no such startling signage, at least not one that is visible from the busy vehicular street, and as the entrance is off the pavement, down some steps and tucked at the back of a forecourt, getting to know that the bar is there either involves a pedestrian element or relies upon word of mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"837\" data-attachment-id=\"10043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/forma-bar-kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?fit=896%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"896,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C837&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C837&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=765%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1029&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C836&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-front-door-rz-min.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Take us, for example, me and my fellow pub crawlers. It was the bar staff at the Yeltsin who apprised us of Form&#8217;s whereabouts in answer to our question where is the next nearest bar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Craft Beers on Form at Forma Bar Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Vicinity, and close proximity,&nbsp;are not the only things that the two bars have in common. Both bars cater predominantly for a&nbsp; young clientele. Both, in fact, are student hangouts. Both bars have an appealing basic look. Both have a vintage approach to d\u00e9cor, and some of their customers, not all, but some, have a bit of vintage about them. Both bars cater to the craft beer penchant for the names of  beers and their respective strengths to be written in chalk on boards. And, last but by no means least, both bars have a reputation for keeping and serving premium beers on a selective, rotating basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Where the two differ is that the Yeltsin is more alpha male and Form more feminine. Now, don\u2019t get excited and don\u2019t go all western liberal gender woke on me, I do not mean it like that. My definition divides the two bars into one which seems geared to young male drinkers who equate craft beers with male camaraderie, and the other that seems to attract a more mixed crowd. Or, to put it another way, go to the Yeltsin for good beer, to listen to tracks on a classic&nbsp;juke box and a game of table football ~ you can also admire the urbanised bogs, with their lashings of bold graffiti ~ but go to Form if you want to sit in a group around tables you&#8217;ve pushed together to discuss the grades you got for your essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"470\" data-attachment-id=\"10046\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/retro-look-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?fit=1280%2C963&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,963\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?fit=625%2C470&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=625%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Forma Bar Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-10046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=1024%2C770&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=768%2C578&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=16%2C12&amp;ssl=1 16w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=624%2C469&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=24%2C18&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=36%2C27&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?resize=48%2C36&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-look-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"837\" data-attachment-id=\"10045\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/forma-bar-kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?fit=896%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"896,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C837&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C837&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mick Hart &amp; Inara bar in Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-10045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=765%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1029&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C836&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-photo-through-shelf-rz-min.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Neither of the two bars are better than the other, not in the strict comparative sense, but nuances in composition lend to each a slightly different feel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From an architectural standpoint, Form has less form than Yeltsin. Yes, yes, I know: he was a larger-than-life man, with a lived-in and craggy face \u2026&nbsp; Form, on the other hand, is little more than a room ~ little more than a large room, granted ~ &nbsp;hived off down one end by the inclusion of a shelving unit filled with intriguing vintage stuff, which acts as a screen for a makeshift cloakroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"837\" data-attachment-id=\"10044\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/forma-bar-kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?fit=896%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"896,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C837&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C837&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Craft beer bar vintage Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-10044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=765%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1029&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C836&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-length-of-room-rz-min.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Form is not exactly spartan, but neither is it cluttered. It contains a number of antithetical but, even so, well-planned pieces that might not or ought not work together, but in Form they actually do. And Form is very comfortable. The floor may be plain old concrete, but it is patched &nbsp;with vintage mats&nbsp; \u2014 real, proper, woven mats, agog with interesting patterns. &nbsp;The retro furniture is hotch-potch, but all the more engaging for it. The wall mirrors look in shape as if they once belonged to, and are now on loan from, a 1970s\u2019 lava lamp, and up there on the ceiling some strange artistic drawing is going on: lots of dark black swirling lines, some being tightly compressed, others apart and free flowing, which would not look less at home superimposed on a TV weather chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"831\" data-attachment-id=\"10040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/ceiling-art-forma-bar-kaliningrad-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=963%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"963,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=625%2C831&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=625%2C831&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Exotic patterns on Forma bar ceiling\" class=\"wp-image-10040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=770%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=624%2C829&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ceiling-art-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?w=963&amp;ssl=1 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As for the lighting ~ how could I possibly not mention the lighting! ~ the ambient light is dimmed exactly to the right level, and the wall lights are of that special kind that direct illumination in an accommodating intensity only to where it needs to be and just as much as there needs to be, thus creating the sort of mellow cloistered moon-filled shadows in which a canoodling couple could easily fall in love or a single man could fall in love with his beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The bar within the bar, ie the actual bar itself, &nbsp;is straight out of DIY Ville. Wooden, too high for comfort, so that when you try to lean upon it, you look as if you\u2019re begging, which, when the bar is full, I imagine you very well might be, all behind it is on display ~ buckets, pipes, barrels, glasses ~ whatever they use behind the bar you see it. It\u2019s a wonderfully basic bar and that\u2019s basic with a capital \u2018\u0411\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"470\" data-attachment-id=\"10041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/beer-on-blackboards-forma-bar-kaliningrad-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=1280%2C963&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,963\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?fit=625%2C470&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=625%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The bar at Forma Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-10041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=1024%2C770&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=768%2C578&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=16%2C12&amp;ssl=1 16w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=624%2C469&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=24%2C18&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=36%2C27&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=48%2C36&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beer-on-blackboards-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As the seating is notably mismatch, finding a chair to suit you should not be a crucial issue, but in the unlikely event it becomes one, there is plenty of scope for musical chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Craft Beers on Form at Forma Bar Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My most recent visit to Form was a strictly Jack Jones affair: I was going it alone. Having purchased for myself a half-litre of Kristoffel Blond, six percent in strength and 400 roubles a pop, I took up temporary residence in a low-slung, wooden-framed fully cushioned chair, which, in my professional opinion as an always-on-duty vintage dealer, had travelled into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century from way back in the 1970s. The chair and I were perfectly matched. Within a few minutes of sitting there, a couple, on whom I had never laid eyes before, opted for the seats opposite and joined me at my table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In broken Russian and beery English Me, and in beery Russian and broken English Them, we conversed quite satisfactorily. What the gentleman of the two did not know about craft beers you could write on a half-torn beer mat. Thus, we spent in our comfortable vintage chairs a pleasant 60 minutes talking the kind of talk that only beer drinkers are able to talk whilst they are drinking beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"10042\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/craft-beers-on-form-at-forma-bar-kaliningrad\/retro-furniture-forma-bar-kaliningrad-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?fit=625%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min.jpg?resize=625%2C833&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Retro furniture at Forma\" class=\"wp-image-10042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=624%2C832&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Retro-Furniture-Forma-bar-Kaliningrad-min-scaled.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Definitively and succinctly put, Kaliningrad\u2019s Form is a comfortable, laid-back place. It has a lighting system to sing about, a convincing vintage feel and beers you can fall in love with. It caters inexclusively, but let us hint predominantly, for those who are young and intelligent enough to know what it means to drink sensibly, but nevertheless probably don\u2019t, and strange old English fellows who certainly do but don\u2019t, never have and in all likelihood never will be able to, but who are skilled in waxing lyrical about beers of outstanding quality \u2014 which is something that Form has \u2014 and also about good bars \u2014 which is something that Form is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If it was up to me, I would say that Form is always on form, but I\u2019ll leave it up to you to form your own opinion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bars to like<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/yeltsin-bar-kaliningrad\/\" title=\"The Yeltsin\">The Yeltsin<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/4-great-kaliningrad-bars-mick-harts-pub-crawl\/\" title=\"Pub Crawl around Kaliningrad\">Pub Crawl around Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/london-pub-kaliningrad-best-pub\/\" title=\"The London Pub\">The London Pub<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/an-englishman-at-the-dreadnought-kaliningrad\/\" title=\"The Dreadnought\">The Dreadnought<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/sir-francis-drake-english-pub-kaliningrad\/\" title=\"Sir Francis Drake\">Sir Francis Drake<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/true-bar-kaliningrad-the-citys-latest-music-venue\/\" title=\"True Bar\">True Bar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2024 Mick Hart. 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