AF Brew
Commercial Brewery
in
Saint Petersburg,
Saint Petersburg,
Russia 🇷🇺
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
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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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught@TCBW2018. Hazy yellow colour with a small white foamy head. Aroma is tropical fruit concentrate with mild bready and lactic notes. Flavour is mild tartness, some fruity bitterness along with some lactic and fruity tones. Smooth palate.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled@TCBW2019 (Ltd Bottle). Hazy orange colour with a small white head. Aroma is cloudberries, some tart wood and mild lactic notes. Flavour is cloudberries, some wood, quite mouthdrying and mild sourish notes too. Still very smooth
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught@Craft Beer Helsinki 2018. Black colour, small head. Aroma is sweet malts, toffee, mild roast and some berry notes. Flavour is sweet malts, alcohol, some fruits, dried fruits and mild nectary notes. Quite much bitterness to it as well.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught@TCBW2019. Black colour, beigeish brown head. Aroma is vanilla, wood, alcohol, liquorice, some roast and mild dried fruits along with some herbs. Flavour is quite similar to the elements in the aroma, but also has a quite strong chocolaty edge to it.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught@TCBW2019. Black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is sweet rum, coconut, chocolate, some alcohol and mild ripe fruitiness. Flavour is rum, coconut, some toffee, chocolate, mild toast and also some dried fruits to it. Not that boozy in the flavour.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught@Craft Beer Helsinki 2018. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, nutty notes with some wood, alcohol and sweet maltiness. Flavour is sweet malts, some roasted notes along with nuts, wood and alcohol. Also some ripe fruits as the beer warms up a bit.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught@TCBW2018. Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is nutty, some roasted notes, mild toffee as well as some alcohol and mild ripe fruits and figs. Flavour is figs, plum, ripe fruits, some alcohol, toffee and mild toasted/roasted notes with nuts and some coffee. Mild vanmilla edge too.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Close to black colour with a mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is syrup, rye bread, some alcohol, mild dried fruits as well as some slight toffeeish tones. Flavour is rye bread, some sugary tones, alcohol, mild dried fruits, plum and some mild smoked wet wooden tones.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught@Panema, Helsinki. Black colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is chocolate, vanilla, coffee, some roasted and mild alcohol tones. Flavour is chocolate, vanilla, coffee and some roasted tones with mild alcohol sweetness.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Black colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is sherry/port like elements with some spices and liquorice. Flavour is liquorice, some roasted tones with mild dried fruits and some slight alcohol and toffee tones.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 20:44