{"id":8634,"date":"2023-03-11T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T06:52:51","slug":"taurus-beer-in-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/taurus-beer-in-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Taurus Beer in Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bull-headed whilst drinking Taurus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

11 March 2023 ~ Taurus Beer in Kaliningrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mick Hart\u2019s totally biased review of bottled beers* in Kaliningrad (or how to live without British real ale!)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 24:<\/mark> Taurus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, come on! Even those of you who are far too rational to have any truck with mystic nonsense know that Taurus is an astrological sign and, for what it\u2019s worth, the second astrological sign in the modern zodiac. No, not the Ford Zodiac. Who remembers those long bench seats and that tricky column gear stick?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The zodiac sign for Taurus is the bull. Zodiac people are said to be hard-headed, down-to-earth, tenacious, reliable, loyal, and sensual. I wonder if the latter quality is why so many wear the cuckold\u2019s horns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewing Taurus Beer in Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So, this beer that I am reviewing today, this pilsner, is named after the second sign of the zodiac. It has a bull\u2019s head on the label, so it must be so, but we won\u2019t know if the label stands for zodiac sign or something else until we attempt to drink it. Well, they ~ the brewers and distributors ~ are hardly likely to adorn the bottle with a hefty pile of bull droppings, are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m not a pilsner man \u2026 blah \u2026 blah \u2026 blah \u2026. Yes, you\u2019ve heard it all before, but that does not mean that I am not afraid to try it. I once tried a liberal girlfriend. At least, I think she was a girl? Maybe, she was a feminist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles in this series:<\/strong>
Bottled Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Variety of Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Cedar Wood Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Gold Mine Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Zhigulevskoye Beer Kaliningrad Russia<\/a>
Lidskae Aksamitnae Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Baltika 3 in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Ostmark Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Three Bears Crystal Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Soft Barley Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Oak & Hoop Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Lifting the Bridge on Leningradskoe Beer<\/a>
Czech Recipe Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Zatecky Gus Svetly in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Gyvas Kaunas in Kaliningrad<\/a>
German Recipe Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Amstel Bier in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Cesky Medved Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
OXOTA Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Lidskae Staryi Zamak Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Cesky Kabancek Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a>
British Amber Beer in Kainingrad<\/a>
Hemeukoe Beer in Kaliningrad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some out there who say yes, but \u2026 and they don\u2019t get any further because they are drinking a good strong ale, but others say a pilsner is a pilsner is a pilsner, and most of them are me. But what the tongue doesn\u2019t taste the tum can\u2019t grieve about, so whilst you can\u2019t teach your grandmother to suck eggs (why would she want to?), you can occasionally, on a hot afternoon, get a real-ale drinker to forget his religion and sip an ice-cold lager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if that lager is pilsner, make sure that it is<\/em> ice cold, or it could taste like the bull I am hoping this pilsner will not be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mick<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, off we go with the top and up to the nostrils: \u2018Dull, sour smell\u2019 ~ make a note of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pour it into the glass, and it looks light. I am relieved about that; don\u2019t want to be asking, what did you do with the water that you washed the bull\u2019s hind quarters with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sip it; I taste it; I swig it: Dull metallic taste. \u201cJust as I thought, Watson!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, you silly bugger Holmes, why on earth did you buy it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy, because I have this \u2018Year of the Bull\u2019 tea towel, which I knew would make for a very interesting photograph even if the bull\u2019s head attachment makes it a very inconvenient tea towel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What a load of bullocks!” In the farmer\u2019s field opposite. {Watson is looking out of the window into the farmer\u2019s field opposite.}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strength of the beer is not OTT. It weighs in at a very respectable 4.6%, which in the hereabouts, Kaliningrad, would be seen as lightweight but in the UK regarded as A-OK. For example, a matador could drink it and still not be incapable of waving his little red handkerchief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with many lagers, iced over from the fridge as if imported from a Siberian winter, pilsner is nothing to do with taste but all to do with coldness and getting it down your throat, hence the expression \u2018Lager Louts\u2019. Obviously, no regard for taste and quality equals no regard for decorum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drinking Taurus Beer in Kaliningrad <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some pilsner lagers evade the spell checker and by the time you have finished drinking them, let alone writing about them, they have turned into something else. I am relieved to say, however, that Taurus does qualify as a pilsner, not a pisner. It has all the ~ we won\u2019t say qualities, but we will allow ourselves to use the word usefulness ~ of an alcoholic drink that comes in handy on a hot sweaty day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that was the penultimate sentence, which leaves you wondering how exactly, given the Taurus-bull connection, I resisted including a word like bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\ude00TRAINSPOTTING & ANORAKS<\/strong>
Name of Beer:<\/strong> Taurus
Brewer: <\/strong>Kalnapilis Brewery
Where it is brewed:<\/strong> Panev\u0117\u017eys, Lithuania
Bottle capacity:<\/strong> 1 litre
Strength:<\/strong> 4.6%
Price:<\/strong> It cost me about 127 roubles (\u00a31.38) [at time of writing!]
Appearance:<\/strong> Light
Aroma:<\/strong> Dull, sour
Taste:<\/strong> Typical pilsner
Fizz amplitude:<\/strong> 4\/10
Label\/Marketing:<\/strong> A load of bull
Would you buy it again? <\/strong>Hmm, debateable \u2026
Marks out of 10:<\/strong> 4.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*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":"

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