So, pubs and bars are starting to open again. Huzzah! Things may not yet be quite back the way they were, but it’s a welcome start. It’s a bit strange having to sign in to a pub and order your drinks from behind a plastic screen, but if it means we can start going out …
Last weekend in Warsaw we went on a tour of the Polish Vodka Museum. Poppy’s a vodka fan, but to be honest I’m usually no great lover of Poland’s favourite drink. However, it was fascinating to learn about the history of vodka and the methods used in its production. Poppy has written more about the …
No beer tour around the Baltics would be complete without a stop-off in Biržai in northern Lithuania. The town has a long and distinguished brewing history, and the traditional styles from the region are still popular today. They take their beer pretty seriously around here; apparently, after the Swedish destroyed Biržai in 1704, the locals …
As we came to the end of the Estonian leg of our trip, we decided that we should probably drink up some of the bottles we’d collected over the past three weeks or so (it also meant we wouldn’t have to carry them around any longer!). We took advantage of a quiet evening in Võru …