Varvar Brew

Microbrewery in Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Associated with 2 Venues

Description
It all has started with a dream. OK, let's be honest, it's started with a glass of beer. Brewed by someone else.

Dream big. Always dream big, you know. We started small because at the beginning the only thing we had was our dream. We haven't owned any equipment, so our first brews were born at other city and other mash tun entirely. But we took one step at the time and soon our very own, very handcrafted and assembled by hand brewery arrived from Bila Tserkva. We installed it here in Kyiv at the premises of the former lumber house – “lisopylka” in Ukrainian, hence the name of the brew-pub – and continued the pursuit of our dream.

Today we have new state-of-the-art brewery and immensely proud of it. Don't think that we discarded our small but utterly loved old brewing system, because we have, yes you've guessed, BIG plans for it. And we keep on dreaming big. We just want to share this dream of better beer, sheer enjoyment of the drink, greater and more diverse beer culture, share it with you.

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml can. Pours black with a small beige/tan head. Aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, molasses, caramel. Taste of molasses, a bit of dark fruit, caramel, chocolate, a touch of coffee bitterness, minimal salt maybe just enough to warrant the salted caramel descriptor. Medium bodied.
The adjunct usage is pretty low here but I don't see that as a bad thing, think of it like a trad stout with a small amount of salted caramel flavouring.

Tried from Can from Left Field Beer on 21 Sep 2025 at 00:25


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml can. Pours a very slightly hazed yellow, white head. Aroma of bready, doughy malts. Taste is very wheaty as expected, prominent bready doughy malt flavour not too dissimilar from a Hefeweizen, but unlike that style it's still quite crisp and clean, none of the estery banana notes, floral, slightly sweet, low bitterness. Medium bodied, feels fuller than a typical lager.
Interesting wheat beer / lager hybrid. Honestly I'd rather have a regular Hefeweizen given the choice, but I enjoyed this. Really surprised I'm the first rater of this in the two years it's been available.

Tried from Can from Left Field Beer on 18 Sep 2025 at 21:22


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

330ml can. Aroma is very floral, berries, tropical. Taste is the same, berries and tropical fruits with floral notes throughout, mandarin, very mild peppery hop spice, light bitterness. Medium bodied.

Tried from Can from Left Field Beer on 18 Sep 2025 at 20:43


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml slim can, sold to me by djoeye. Shared at a rating session with Finn. Deep reddish-brown body, bubbles on the surface, lacing rings down the glass. Inviting roasted malty aromas, mid-dry. Mixed taste of dried fruits, including prunes and raisin, added by mid-sweet malts. Prolonged, rounded ending, semi sweet. Fine bodied. Like it, sipper qualities. (Tromsø, 18.09.2025).

Tried from Can on 18 Sep 2025 at 18:55


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

330ml can. Clear golden, big white head. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, pale malts, grains. Taste is citrusy, orange and grapefruit, grains, resin, pine, moderate bitterness. Light-medium bodied. Pleasant APA, not bad at all but perhaps a little lacking by today's standards.

Tried from Can from Left Field Beer on 18 Sep 2025 at 18:53


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Spandert av Rune. Delt i WCveien.

Tried from Can on 18 Sep 2025 at 18:44


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap @MBCC 2025, Green Session. Clear golden white head. Floral hoppy malty aroma. Sweet sugary malty flavour. Some floral and fruity notes.

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2025 at 15:14


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @MBCC 2025, Green Session. Clear golden white head. Fruity aroma, some tropical fruit perhaps. Sweet herbal fruity flavour, creamy mouthfeel.

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2025 at 15:13


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @MBCC 2025, Red Session. Clear golden white head. Mild fruity aroma. Sourish, sweet fruity flavour.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2025 at 19:37


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @MBCC 2025, Red Session. Black, beige head. Roast and dark choc aroma. Sweet roasted flavour, dark choc, some jammy notes, roasted dry finish.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2025 at 10:20