AF Brew
Commercial Brewery
in Saint Petersburg,
Saint Petersburg,
Russia 🇷🇺
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2012
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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.
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
My girlfriend got me this from Rashka: pours orange with nice thick white head. Aroma is buttery, spicy, and pine. Taste is bitter and quite malty. The final buttery finish was not entirely to my liking. Maybe it is the hop or maybe Russia just hasn’t figured out dipas yet.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2015
at 19:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Thanks zvikar. ABV listed on the back label as 7.5%, but it actually feels more like an 8.7% beer. Clear golden with an off-white head. Aroma of weird leafy "green" hops, slightly fruity, and butter. Slightly buttery flavor with "green" hops, strong bitterness and a bit of alcohol. Medium-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2015
at 14:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
BOTTLE 50 CL. Medium intensity aroma, hops, grapefruit, some tropical fruit, mild minty resins. The flavour is hoppy, sweet citrus, light fruity (not much caramel sweetness though), kinda harsh wormwood like bitterness. Smooth body. Clean. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2015
at 16:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 50 CL. The aroma is hop forward. Not super intense, but bright and beautiful - blueberries and other berries, sweet citrus, balanced by mild minty resins. The flavour is also full of fruit, gradually replaced by a strong yet mild and pleasant bitterness. The body is creamy, carbonation is mild and soft. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2015
at 16:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 50 CL from eluosiren. Fresh and intense, red grapefruit, blood orange topped with sugary syrup and pine notes somewhere in the background. As it warms up, you get some dried fruit, mainly cranberies. Some rotten fruit off-flavour. Everything is balanced by a huge bitterness, that is pleasant and never over the top. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2014
at 00:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 50 CL 7,5% abv. Tropical fruit aroma of medium intensity, that becomes more pungent and herbal/piney and malty too. The body feels quite „imperial” with lots of malts, as well as lots of hops. It is so hefty, that I even have doubts that the abv on the label is accurate. Some meaty heavy notes. Light acidity. Really long bitter finish. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2014
at 16:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 50 CL. The hops dominate this stout from the very start. Intense, „German” hop profile (roughly like Schneider’s Tap 5), grassy, with notes of lemon zest and young vine shoots. The hops is backed by coffee beans roast, but not much chocolate (though, the „anti” prefix in the title might mean just that). The flavour is intense, but easy drinking at the same time. The finish is not as much bitter as it is spicy and pungent with a pleasant astringency. Might well be called a Black IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2014
at 17:01
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
BOTTLE 50 CL from Sharky Dodson.
Some vinegar out of the bottle, that fortunately goes away rather fast. What’s left is a very faint aroma of fresh cut pumpkin and green grassy homebrew-ish hops. The flavour is dry burnt malts (no coffee or chocolate), light body, and (surprise!) quite a hoppy and bitter finish with notes of citrus. Not bad, but rather simplistic, and lacking the fruity chocolaty goodness that we like in a porter.
Some vinegar out of the bottle, that fortunately goes away rather fast. What’s left is a very faint aroma of fresh cut pumpkin and green grassy homebrew-ish hops. The flavour is dry burnt malts (no coffee or chocolate), light body, and (surprise!) quite a hoppy and bitter finish with notes of citrus. Not bad, but rather simplistic, and lacking the fruity chocolaty goodness that we like in a porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2014
at 13:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at a tasting at Beer Market Jaffa. Thanks Vadim & Alexander for this bottle! Deep reddish amber with a beige head. Aroma of leafy, "green", piney and resinous hops and a bit of caramel. Flavor has a bit of sweetish malt, nice "green" hops and a big bitter finish. Medium-bodied. A good IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2014
at 11:17
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at a tasting at kerenmk’s place. Thanks Vadim for this bottle! Nice clear reddish amber with a stable off-white head. Aroma of malt, mild fruity hops a bit of caramel and a skunky note. Flavor has some sweetish malt, a bit bready, with a caramelly hint, fruity hops, a bit piney, and a finish with pretty strong bitterness. Medium-bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2014
at 09:59