Pikra

It's the end of another week in Krasnoyarsk, and this one has been pretty laid back. Yesterday I went on a tour of the Baltika Brewery here (what was once the independent company "Pikra") as a part of the International Office's orientation events for five new Czech students. It was fun to tour the brewery of a pretty crappy beer company with a bunch of Czechs. There was clearly a lot of Czech beer pride in the air, and there were several moments when they started explaining different beer related things to the guide. The tour concluded with a tasting, but they didn't even give us beer from the tap and a lot of it was luke warm. Nothing to help the fact that the beer is pretty bad to begin with. But it was fun to see a million 2 liter plastic bottles of Arsenalnoe, and they gave us big Baltika bar glasses at the end. Also got that thing on my finger in the picture below--it's a little tube that will eventually become one of those 2 liter plastic bottles and keep some delish beer tasting fresh.


I'm in a particularly stay-at-home kind of mood at the moment, but I feel ok about it. It's cold and I've got lots of nice food and tea and movies and books.