{"id":10493,"date":"2024-06-06T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:27:47","slug":"keptinis-farmhouse-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/keptinis-farmhouse-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) in Kaliningrad is it good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers: <\/strong>Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>6 June 2024 ~ Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) in Kaliningrad is it good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnyone for tennis?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Hardly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnyone for Keptinis?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I should say so!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u2018Keptinis\u2019 ~ it doesn\u2019t exactly roll off of the British tongue, does it? How I remember the name of this beer is to think of a sport I don\u2019t like. Problem is there are many ~ football, cricket, rugby, tennis, I have a healthy dislike of them all. But for the sake of recalling the name of a beer, and a very good beer at that, no sacrifice is unjustified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thus, I take the silly game in which three rackets are involved, two that are held in hands and the other that coins in money, and, by the simple cross-referencing method, I think of that common earole complaint medically known as tinnitus, but spelling it wrongly \u2018tinnitis\u2019, and I allow the tail of the misspelt word to wave in my direction. Then all I have to do, by way of association, is to think of a beer so all consuming that it would save me from anything foolish or rash, like playing or even watching tennis, and \u2018kept away from tennis\u2019 thus, with tinnitis in my ear, I say it so fast it becomes &#8216;Keptenis&#8217;, which is as near to Keptinis as dammit and as damn them is to a boat load of migrants steaming into Dover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An easier, far less linguistically challenging means of bringing this beer to mind is to focus on the label. With its striking green and yellow shapes and the stovepipe hat and long moustache of its mysterious pop art poster man, it really is, to coin a phrase and in the process mix two metaphors (which like mixing race is never advisable), the ultimate dog&#8217;s whiskers, and just to please the equality conscious, the absolute cat&#8217;s bollocks. Mix your metaphors if you will, but before you go mixing anything else, for heaven&#8217;s sake think of the pups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Beer review links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cc034fdac9a1171c0a35d421c5170b50\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/butauty-beer-in-kaliningrad-how-good-is-it\/\"><strong>Butauty<\/strong><\/a>] [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kanapinis-cannabis-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/\">Kanapinis (light)<\/a><\/strong>] [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/kanapinis-dark-beer-in-kaliningrad-how-good-is-it\/\" title=\"Kanapinis (dark)\">Kanapinis (dark)<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Keptinis is a mixed-up beer. The moment you flip the Keptinis stopper you are nose to brew with a different species. This is no simple mass-produced, wishy washy paleface lager or bland keg-bitter fizz bomb. What you have is a subtle hybrid. So subtle, you may not know what it is, but it sure as hell smells different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So, there I am, sniffing away like a kid in a baker\u2019s shop. Although, I never was a kid, as I never was American. And my first reaction to Keptinis is: For what I am about to receive, will it taste like liquefied rye bread? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIs there any body there?\u201d I ask, like the only one at a lonely guy\u2019s s\u00e9ance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And remarkably there is. An awful lot of body. Almost too much in fact (and also too much in fiction): a crowded coven of smell apparitions which, in no one order of merit or preference, gives vent to nasal impressions like dried fruit, molten caramel, aromatic scents, spices of the orient and something not dissimilar to chestnuts roasting on an open fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Whiffed from within the glass, the subtle and complex combination of deep and rich aromas give way to a smell that is more pronounced, more reminiscently rounded. The jury is out on the soft drink kvas, which is, it may surprise you, mildly alcoholic, while at a stonking 5.7% Keptinis commands a virile strength that by any stretch of the wotsit is hardly soft and rarely limp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The creamy head that flows profusely and lathers up at the top of the glass looking like old-fashioned shaving foam is a sight for proverbial sore eyes, especially eyes up North (It\u2019s looking up at those pigeons that does it. Why are they all wearing head scarves these days?). But it reminds me more of ice cream; Mr Whippy passing his flake. It was all 69 in the &#8217;70s. (That&#8217;s &#8217;99&#8217; with a bit knocked off.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) in Kaliningrad is it good?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The first mouthful revs up your kvas. Talk about turbo-charged! The taste is full-throttle and it comes at you fast, bouncing from taste bud to taste bud, like brown ale on a Friday night down at the working It&#8217;s club, and though incipiently and enduringly dry, both the finish and the aftertaste possess a hitherto secret hint of a not unlikeable sweetness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The contrast is right-on punchy and funky. To give it a visual translation, a kind of non-binary gender-neutral pole-vaulting limbo dancer strutting her stuff on a pinball table. Please, if you must indulge you fantasies, Keptinis them to yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some beers are disappointing. They flirt with you in the early evening yet fold before the evenings through, after parting with your money. You might just as well have sat and drank tea whilst watching some tripe on the BBC (It rhymes!) Is this something else you shouldn\u2019t have paid for? A lie, lie, lie, lie, lie-sense. Look out, you\u2019re being investigated! Will you be in next Thursday? You bet your wife I will, but possibly not for the rest of the week! (Sorry, that&#8217;s an &#8216;in&#8217; joke.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Of all the things on God&#8217;s great Earth that are not worth the salt of being kept in by, the BBC is top of the pops. They forgot to investigate Jimmy. But even without a TV licence, I would do everything in my power not to be kept in by a Liebour party political broadcast, or by something equally appalling and unequivocally just as implausible, which rules in coronavirus. And I never have, at least to my knowledge, been kept in by the rogue desire to watch a game of tennis. I would rather stand outside in the street and laugh at cyclists in Lycra shorts. Yet, to be keptin by Keptinis, now that is a horse of a different colour. We won&#8217;t divulge which colour (clue, it&#8217;s nothing to do with Persil) or we may be coerced into ruining our trousers, along with our integrity, by doing something really stupid like taking a virtue signalling knee. Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! He! He!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"340\" data-attachment-id=\"10502\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/keptinis-farmhouse-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/keptinis-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?fit=242%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"242,340\" 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=\"Keptinis beer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?fit=242%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=242%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) in Kaliningrad bottle lable\" class=\"wp-image-10502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?w=242&amp;ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=17%2C24&amp;ssl=1 17w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=26%2C36&amp;ssl=1 26w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keptinis-rz.jpg?resize=34%2C48&amp;ssl=1 34w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thankfully, Keptinis is 100% hysteria free: a &#8216;no one size fits all&#8217; beer that bucks (Did I get that right?) the stereotyping  straightjacket. It is less insane than more well-balanced, and though it does resemble kvas, in unassuming and subtle ways, especially if you smoke, has flavours hidden deep within arranged in such cunning and clever ways that the taste bouquet only glitters (all that glitters is not Gary) by slow and teasing degrees, which is all to the \u2018so say all of us\u2019, hooray! ~  for Keptinis, it is telling us, is not a one-glass beer and that in order to fully appreciate the deluxe brew it surely is, you have to finish the bottle. I suppose it is what is colloquially known as a drink that is rather morish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">They say, and they are always saying, and I suppose they always will, that the saying about the &#8216;good thing&#8217; of which, it is said, &#8216;you can have too much&#8217;, will, if you say it often enough, get in the way of the very thing that you cannot get enough of. But shucks (and a word that rhymes with shucks), what the hell do they know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnyone for Keptinis?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Everyone, I should think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer: Keptinis bears no resemblance to cyclists living or dead or to anyone else not as daft as cyclists who nevertheless would not be seen dead in a pair of Lycra shorts? <\/em><\/strong>(sponsored by the Save Me from Being a Sheep Society and the Campaign for Corduroy Trousers in association with Bicycle Clips)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>BOX TICKER\u2019S CORNER<\/strong><br><strong>Name of Beer:<\/strong>\u00a0Keptinis (or is that &#8216;Keptenis&#8217;?)<br><strong>Brewer:<\/strong>\u00a0Auk\u0161taitijos Bravorai<br><strong>Where it is brewed:<\/strong>\u00a0Lithuania<br><strong>Bottle capacity:<\/strong>\u00a01litre<br><strong>Strength:<\/strong>\u00a05.7%<br><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0It cost me about 230 roubles in 2021. More recently in Kaliningrad, it cost me about 399 roubles\/\u00a33.44<br><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\u00a0Dark<br><strong>Aroma:<\/strong>\u00a0Not unlike kvass<br><strong>Taste:<\/strong>\u00a0Predominantly caramel but with other things going on<br><strong>Fizz amplitude:<\/strong>\u00a03\/10<br><strong>Label\/Marketing:<\/strong>\u00a0Pop Art<br><strong>Would you buy it again?\u00a0<\/strong>Faster than I would buy the Labour party\u2019s policies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beer rating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"59\" data-attachment-id=\"9632\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kanapinis-cannabis-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/screenshot-2023-11-20-151415\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=810%2C77&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"810,77\" 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=\"Mick Hart Beer Reviews Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=300%2C29&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=625%2C59&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=625%2C59&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mick Hart Beer Rating Scales\" class=\"wp-image-9632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=300%2C29&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=768%2C73&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=18%2C2&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=624%2C59&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=24%2C2&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=36%2C3&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=48%2C5&amp;ssl=1 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#f0dcbc\">About the beer: <strong>Auk\u0161taitijos Bravorai | Keptinis<\/strong><br><br>Keptinis is categorised as a \u2018Farmhouse Beer\u2019, a rare beer, difficult to brew, native to Lithuania. It is called \u2018farmhouse\u2019 for the very good reason that it was traditionally brewed by farmers. Rumour has it that as the special kind of malt that was needed for the brewing process was cost and distance prohibitive, the crafty farmers would create a mash and then bake it at high temperatures in order to produce the distinctive caramel taste for which it is renowned.<br><br>The brewers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aukstaitijosbravorai.lt\/\">\u00a0Auk\u0161taitijos Bravorai<\/a>, refer to it as an \u2018Oven Unfiltered Beer\u2019 and describe its unique personage thus: \u201cThis beer stands out because it uses not only caramel and Pilsner malts, but bravura roasted malts, which give this beer a mild bitterness and aroma. Beer after fermentation and maturation has a frozen taste and a dark color.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aukstaitijosbravorai.lt\/\">https:\/\/www.aukstaitijosbravorai.lt\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wot other\u2019s say<\/strong>&nbsp;[Comments on <strong>Keptinis<\/strong><br>&nbsp;(Farmhouse Beer) from the internet, unedited]<br>\ud83d\ude11Taste is close to aroma, but with harsh yeasty note.<br>[Comment: Yeasty note, yes; harsh, no]<br><br>\ud83d\ude0aA very rare farmhouse style<br>[Comment: Wellies and all the rest of it?]<br><br>\ud83e\udd14Initial malty flavours soon got tired, it really needs some hop bite to balance it out<br>[Comment: Your application for tightrope walker has not been successful]<br><br>\ud83d\ude0a Kvassy, super bready, yeasty and bit funky, bit caramelly sweet and quite bitter<br>[Comment: Yesy, very goody, welly saidy]<br><br>\ud83d\ude42Strong, baked caramel flavour, smooth mouthfeel, interesting sweet notes<br>[Comment: Orchestrally correct]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2024 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4f9\"><strong><em>Now see this <\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/variety-of-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\" title=\"Variety of Beer in Kaliningrad\">Variety of Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers: Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad 6 June 2024 ~ Keptinis (Farmhouse Beer) in Kaliningrad is it good? \u201cAnyone for tennis?\u201d Hardly! \u201cAnyone for Keptinis?\u201d I should say so! \u2018Keptinis\u2019 ~ it doesn\u2019t exactly roll off of the British tongue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[480,598,479,2232,2357,2356,2355,482],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-kaliningrad","tag-beer-drinking-kaliningrad","tag-beer-guide-kaliningrad","tag-bottled-beer-in-kaliningrad","tag-craft-beer-in-kaliningrad","tag-keptinis","tag-keptinis-farmhouse-beer","tag-keptinis-farmhouse-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good","tag-mick-harts-guide-bottled-beers-kaliningrad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Hand-holding-Keptinis-rz-min.jpg?fit=544%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11133,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/bistrampolio-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-any-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":10493,"position":0},"title":"Bistrampolio Beer in Kaliningrad is it any good?","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"25 \u0430\u0432\u0433\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers: Bistrampolio Dvaro Alus Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad 25 August 2024 ~ Bistrampolio Beer in Kaliningrad is it any good? 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