AF Brew

Commercial Brewery in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
Улица Степана Разина, 8А, Saint Petersburg, 190020, Russia
Subsidiaries
AF Brew owns 1 brewery:
Description
AF Brew is one of the pioneers of Russian craft beer revolution. We started the show in the ‘faraway’ 2012 in St. Petersburg, the most beer-focused and heritage city of Russia. Four years ago we started as a gipsy brewery having launched one of the first accessible craft beers in Russia – Ingria IPA, with the name dedicated to historically disputed region where the city of St. Petersburg is located. Our primary mission has never changed since then – we brew beer which was never brewed before and we keep no rules. November 2016 we turned the biggest page in our history: we finally built our very own brewery in our home city. The brewery is located on the historical site of 18-19th century city brewery and we did our best to make it a very nice and devoted place to brew and to spend time in. The open plan site with 20 hl brewing system and 400 hl fermentation capacity is supposed to grow twice in two years. It is already a home base for all our brews, collaborations and guest projects. It’s coupled with a barrel-room full of various wood-aging stuff and a taproom to drink, talk and have fun around.

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Canned (From Pieni Olutpuoti Humala, Pori). Pale carrot small white head. Aroma is mango, passionfruit and some not too sweet resiny tones. Flavour is passionfruit, mild spiciness, some mango and also quite herbal tones.
Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2024 at 19:08

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled. Hazy goldeny orange colour with a mediumsized white head. .Aroma is herbal, grassy, fruity and some mild earthy tones. Flavour is herbs, grassy, some fruity, nectary and quite wooden elements. Refreshing and a nice bitterness in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2024 at 19:05

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Draught. Hazy golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is grainy, bready, some fruity and honeyish tones. Flavour is very sweet malts, some spruce, pine and mild grassy tones.
Tried on 31 Mar 2024 at 19:05

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Appearance: Opaque petrol black with a small tan head of small retention. Aroma and taste: Toast & roast, cinnamon, nutmerg, chocolate, distant hop. Medium sweet, light bitter. Mouth feel: Medium to full body, soft carbonation. Overall: OK.
Tried on 02 Mar 2024 at 20:16

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500ml can from Pivo i PenaPaki in Moscow. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mandarin, coconut, mango. Taste is medium sweet, coconut and other tropical fruit. Light bitter finish. Medium to full bodied. Seems a bit too sweet, so something normal for AF Brew.
Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2024 at 15:37

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
330ml can @ Christmas tasting in Blackhaddock's beer cave. Deep brown pour, tan topping. Sweet toffee & maple syrup nose. Dark marzipan and toffee coming through well on the palate, nice sweet shades. Lovely beer.
Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2023 at 10:36

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Christmas Gathering, 18th December 2023. 5 guys at my gaff drinking beer and talking bollocks. 33cl can, dark brown, maroon hue, small beige head. Caramel sweet with a leather like undertone, a 'Snurgers' dream.
Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2023 at 10:27

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50cl can de chez Axiom, bue à l’hôtel. Canned 28/06/2023.
Dorée claire, col crémeux blanc-cassé tenace.
Arôme est plus sur la base session maltée, rétro-nasal sur un léger citronnelle, pamplemousse avec une pointe de mangue.
Palais est léger bien sur le malte avec des houblons assez dominants dont le Mosaic que je retrouve plus pour son apport résineux. Le Sabro reste plutôt discret surtout en rapport avec son caractère habituel chargé en noix de coco. Fini assez sec avec un retrait sur les agrumes/citron vert, pamplemousse avec ce volet poussiéreux boisé cèdre. Pas mauvaise, mais j'attendais plus du Sabro.
Tried from Can at Axiom on 14 Dec 2023 at 14:11

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
33cl can, canned 19/07/2023 du Bar Axiom, Tbilisi, bue à l’hôtel. Il semble que ce style de bière trouve son public en Géorgie ou ici en Russie car je n’ai jamais autant bu de bières de ce style que ici sur Tbilisi.
Couleur pâle rose sur l'orange, col effervescent fin rosâtre.
Arôme sur un bouquet de bière radler de base, relevé par des notes de tomates. Retro-nasal d’épices, bouillon, sauce Worcestershire et Tabasco avec une pointe de fumé. Pas certain que cette version utiliser le jus de palourde?
Palais est dans le but recherche avec un penchant marque sur la tomate tout en ayant ce côte radler de bière avec le rajout finement salin, citron vert pour une acidité légère d'agrumes et ce fini un peu épicé tout en ayant cet aspect de cube de bouillon d’épices. Petite note piquante de piment fumé style Chipotle pepper. Un peu douce sur la fin, collant aux lèvres avec ce volet bière radler citronnée qui revient en retrait.
Bière qui passe ou casse, pas la pire du style que j'aie pu déguster.
Tried from Can at Axiom on 11 Dec 2023 at 13:23

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
500ml can. Pours opaque deep red with a small pink head. Aroma is lemons and raspberries. Taste is medium sour, raspberries, lemons, malt. A somewhat unpleasant aftertaste. Medium bodied. Just another sour.
Tried from Can on 08 Dec 2023 at 13:16