{"id":5124,"date":"2021-11-21T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2021-11-21T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:04:35","slug":"amstel-bier-in-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/amstel-bier-in-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mick Hart\u2019s totally biased review of bottled beers* in Kaliningrad (or how to live without British real ale!)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Article 17: Amstel Bier<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 21 November 2021 ~ Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So, if you don\u2019t like pilsner what are you doing buying it? That\u2019s easy. It was on special offer at my local supermarket, and as I am saving money to buy myself a ticket to Anywhere before the whole world is renamed Vaccination to make sense of the universality of the Vaccination Passport, at 90 roubles, less than a quid, as Abba used to say, &#8216;how could I resist you!&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Amstel Bier\u2019s marketing strategy relies for its gravitas, if not its gravity, on that ubiquitous word of the beer-drinking world \u2018premium\u2019. Next to \u2018love\u2019, it is probably the most overused, abstruse, misunderstood and misappropriated word of all time. Although it occupies many a \u2018premium\u2019 slot, if not an entire chapter, in the <em>Beer Posers&#8217; Dictionary<\/em>, it would not, in its day-to-day marketing application, be permitted as much as a footnote in the <em>Dictionary of Truth<\/em> (which is not published under licence to any of the Davos set).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous articles in this series:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/bottled-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Bottled Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/variety-of-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Variety of Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/cedar-wood-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Cedar Wood Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/gold-mine-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Gold Mine Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/zhigulevskoye-beer-kaliningrad-russia\/\">Zhigulevskoye Beer Kaliningrad Russia<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/lidskae-aksamitnae-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Lidskae Aksamitnae Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/baltika-3-in-kaliningrad\/\">Baltika 3 in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ostmark-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-top-quality\/\">Ostmark Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/three-bears-crystal-beer-in-kaliningrad-russia\/\">Three Bears Crystal Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/soft-barley-beer-in-kaliningrad-russia\/\">Soft Barley Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/oak-hoop-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Oak &amp; Hoop Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/lifting-the-bridge-on-leningradskoe-beer\/\">Lifting the Bridge on Leningradskoe Beer<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/czech-recipe-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">Czech Recipe Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/zatecky-gus-svetly-in-kaliningrad\/\">Zatecky Gus Svetly in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/gyvas-kaunas-in-kaliningrad\/\">Gyvas Kaunas in Kaliningrad<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/german-recipe-beer-in-kaliningrad\/\">German Recipe Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gold labels and award-winning medallions are often used in conjunction with the word \u2018premium\u2019, and it does not hurt any to lend to the product a date in antiquity, thus enabling it to draw from the not-so mythical notion that everything that was produced in the past that did not need a Vaccination Passport or be stamped with a QR code was quality or, to define \u2018premium\u2019, was of \u2018superior quality\u2019 ~ as  was life itself ~ once. Thus, Amstel\u2019s bottle incorporates the lot: the gold label, the word \u2018premium\u2019 and a date when the world was real ~ 1870.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-attachment-id=\"5129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/amstel-bier-in-kaliningrad\/amstel-label-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?fit=1263%2C947&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1263,947\" 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;1595685467&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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amstel-Label-rz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=625%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-5129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=24%2C18&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=36%2C27&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?resize=48%2C36&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Label-rz.jpg?w=1263&amp;ssl=1 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Carlsberg Company saw the funny side of this marketing coin many years ago. They flipped the irony of it into their award-winning marketing slogan, \u2018Carlsberg, probably the best beer in the world,\u2019 proving to the world that at least they could laugh up their sleeve, which is more than can be said for Watney\u2019s, with it\u2019s disingenuous, \u2018Roll out Red Barrel, Let\u2019s have a barrel of fun!\u2019 ~ which drinking it was anything but.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When you see a product labelled in this way, especially a beer, the \u2018premium\u2019 promise first supposedly sells it to you and then, before you take the top off the bottle, influences your opinion, so that, unless you are really studying it, when swilling it back with your mates, this little gold word keeps ringing around your taste buds, going \u2018Premium! [yum, yum] \u2026 Premium! [yum, yum]&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With an introduction of this nature, you could easily jump to the wrong conclusion that I am now going to say that Amstel is crap, but that would be too easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Let\u2019s take the top off first and check its \u2018nose\u2019, as the pretentious like to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My first reaction was to reach for my NHS Do-It-Yourself Coronavirus Testing Kit, because I couldn\u2019t smell a thing. No, that\u2019s not altogether true. I could smell something. I think it was a rat. I am not saying that the beer smelt like a rat, because I have never snorted rat. I use the term loosely, as I might, if I was a brewster, use the word \u2018premium\u2019. In other words, I could smell nothing, no rat no premium, and certainly nothing that could justify anything approaching the notion of \u2018superior quality\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I sniffed the top of the bottle with the cap off for such an inordinate length of time that Ginger, our cat, thought he must be missing out on something and tried to get in on the act. But after the briefest second, he walked away in disgust without so much as a \u2018buy it again\u2019 or just a \u2018meeoww\u2019 for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I didn\u2019t want to end up with the bottle stuck to the end of my nose and be rushed off to hospital in one of those little white Russian ambulances with the siren blaring \u2018snout stuck, snout stuck, snout stuck\u2019, so I gave up after five minutes, concluding that I had detected a faint something or other, an intriguing cross, you might say, between musk and tinniness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When I eventually poured it into my glass, I found myself staring at a pale amber liquid, with very little head, which, as soon as it saw me, made a fast exit. I think this is what is known in beer reviewers&#8217; speak as &#8216;having two fingers&#8217;, or should that be giving two fingers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Most people who occasionally drink pilsners but usually drink something else, tell me that pilsner appeals to their taste in summer because served cold ~ how else? ~ it is light, crisp and refreshing. From that statement, let us extrapolate the word \u2018crisp\u2019. Amstel Bier isn\u2019t. No matter how you drink it ~ swig, gulp or roll it around your mouth ~ crispness doesn\u2019t come into it, so, if that is what you are looking for, you won\u2019t find it in Amstel. Make no mistake about that! (Oooh, he can be so manly when he talks about beer!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, Amstel is not without flavour: it is mellow, smooth, rounded and gives the lie to the notion that it is all about tininess and not about taste. Some beers, especially some lagers, go down like a lead weight, but the Amstel finish is not unpleasant. It doesn\u2019t really justify the self-presumptuous handshake of the two chums on the front of the bottle leaning out of their stamps of approval ~ perhaps they have just been vaccinated and are about to open a Facebook account ~ but thin and wishy-washy beers never have an aftertaste (think Watney\u2019s!), and this one certainly has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In fact, Amstel has a two-phase aftertaste: the first is surprising and seems to hit the spot, but as it Victor Matures it does not so much as sock it to you as socks it to you. In Amstel\u2019s defence, pilsners tend to do this to me generally, so it is by no means unique in this respect either, but in this particular case after five minutes had elapsed, I found myself looking for words to describe the after-aftertaste in my cockney rhyming slang almanac, where all I was able to find was something to do with Scotsmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I am not saying that Amstel needs to pull its socks up, as I hear tell that if it is not a popular lager on the other side of Hadrian\u2019s Wall, the Greeks can\u2019t get enough of it. This may have something to do with the fact that the Athenian Brewery in Greece is now owned by Heineken and as Heineken brew Amstel, well, work it out for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Amstel was originally brewed at the Amstel Brewery in Dutchland. It has a proud heritage, going back to 1870 (you can see the date on the Amstel bottles). However, it was taken over by Heineken International in 1968, who moved production of Amstel to their principal plant at Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I am not sure whether the Chief Brewer, Jock Strap, still works for them or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\ud83d\ude01<strong><strong>TRAINSPOTTING &amp; ANORAKS<\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>Name of Beer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Amstel Bier<br><strong>Brewer:&nbsp;<\/strong>Heineken<br><strong>Where it is brewed:<\/strong>&nbsp;Zoeterwoude, Netherlands<br><strong>Bottle capacity:<\/strong>&nbsp;1.3 litre<br><strong>Strength:<\/strong>&nbsp;4.1%<br><strong>Price:<\/strong>&nbsp;It cost me about 90 roubles (91 pence)<br><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>&nbsp;Pale-amber<br><strong>Aroma:<\/strong>&nbsp;Faint<br><strong>Taste:<\/strong>&nbsp;It does have some<br><strong>Fizz amplitude:<\/strong>&nbsp;4\/10<br><strong>Label\/Marketing:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2018Premium\u2019<br><strong>Would you buy it again?<\/strong>&nbsp;If the price is right!<br><strong>Marks out of 10:<\/strong>&nbsp;4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#1e5d77\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Note that the beers that feature in this review series only include bottled beer types that are routinely sold through supermarket outlets and in no way reflect the variety of beer and\/or quality available in Kaliningrad from speciality outlets and\/or through bars and restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Hart\u2019s totally biased review of bottled beers* in Kaliningrad (or how to live without British real ale!) Article 17: Amstel Bier Published: 21 November 2021 ~ Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad So, if you don\u2019t like pilsner what are you doing buying it? That\u2019s easy. It was on special offer at my local supermarket, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5128,"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":[1706,480,598,498,479,483,530,1707,482,497],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-kaliningrad","tag-amstel-bier-in-kaliningrad","tag-beer-drinking-kaliningrad","tag-beer-guide-kaliningrad","tag-beer-kaliningrad","tag-bottled-beer-in-kaliningrad","tag-englishman-beer-kaliningrad","tag-mick-hart-beer","tag-mick-hart-reviews-beer-in-kaliningrad","tag-mick-harts-guide-bottled-beers-kaliningrad","tag-variety-of-beer-in-kaliningrad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amstel-Bier-with-Skelet-rotated.jpg?fit=948%2C1264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5495,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/cesky-medved-beer-in-kaliningrad\/","url_meta":{"origin":5124,"position":0},"title":"Cesky Medved Beer in Kaliningrad","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"19 \u044f\u043d\u0432\u0430\u0440\u044f, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Mick Hart\u2019s totally biased review of bottled beers* in Kaliningrad (or how to live without British real ale!) 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