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2009 04 28
"Visiting local places I" | | Comments: ON (0)
Sunday we came back from our short ~500 km ride on bikes through Lithuania. We took off not so early, at around 9 am from Kaunas, rode up to the Anyksciai, then down to Puntukas stone, back to the Anyksciai then lost our way and did some offroad (ok, ok, that's a bit exaggerating, we did only 7 km on gravel road) and that was fun! Especially when you ride a super bike :)

At noon ...[more]
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2009 05 22
"Short stay, but was worth it!" | | Comments: ON (0)
We visited London in early autumn, just before rains and bad weather kicks in - perhaps that's why London left a very warm and sunny impression, compared to stories and what I have heard from friends, who were there. A pity our time here was very limited - we stayed just for a couple of days - but hey, it's the thought that counts :)

A bit of counting - journey for two of us cost about 100 ...[more]
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2009 06 08
"A taste of beer! At last!" | | Comments: ON (2)
Today, I was stuck by some sort of brightening - Even thought my blog is called beer and travels, actually I wrote more about travels than beer. In fact, I wrote only about travels, hardly mentioning beer anywhere! It's about time to fix this mistake, and here is first short post about beer!

During trip to Italy, I was eager to try some Italian beer, because Italy is known for vines and ...[more]
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2009 06 25
"Lets put news through the test!" | | Comments: ON (4)
Long time ago, Lithuania was famous as Baltic pagan country, chopping Teutonic order knights here and there, later it was first country who separated from Soviet Union (USSR). Later, then talking about Lithuania, for someone who does not know anything about this country, you usually said: "Yes, that's are home of Euroleague basketball champion Zalgiris team" and "oh, and there is lots of ...[more]
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2009 06 28
"Few thoughts" | | Comments: ON (0)
Yesterday I came back from Poland, been there for a couple of days, a pity none B&T pictures taken, as I somehow managed to forgot my camera. Also, been driving for nearly two days, still a bit tired, but I have scouted middle and north region of Poland, from [more]
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2009 06 29
"Star for testing Polish production" | | Comments: ON (0)
Following up my recent post about Poland - time to start testing the beer I brought. This time leave Zywiec, Lech and other Polish trademarks behind, lets try some not so famous brands.

First I started with 'TAB' beer. First thing that interested me was the price. Bought this 0.5 can for ...[more]
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2009 07 01
"Testing Polish beer II" | | Comments: ON (0)
Continuing my research for decent Polish beers, this time lets put 'Barley Gold' beer for the test. While name is pretty straight forward and without any signs of humbleness, I couldn't say that about beer.

There is somewhat stronger taste, if considering with TAB beer, but cant stand against ...[more]
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2009 07 03
"..Is always nice" | | Comments: ON (0)
Thanks to B&T fan and reader, Agne, who send these pictures. Thanks for sharing them! I sure do envy her the chance to sip beer in Venice, Verona and Paduda :) oh, also meeting Mr Moretti!

Mean while we are preparing our backpacks to Zakopane, where we will set of for the Tatra park. Also, ...[more]
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2009 07 08
"A beer with character?" | | Comments: ON (0)
Haven't seen this beer until recently - I'm quite positive it was not available last year. Right now there is heavy marketing campaign, which makes this beer more visible compared to other brands (well, except Zywiec). Also, shop had discount on this beer at the time, so I took my chances.

First impression comes from the label. Meanwhile it is not somewhat spectacular, ...[more]
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2009 07 10
"A beer you will like.. or hate" | | Comments: ON (0)
After couple of mediocre liters of beer I finally came across something more interesting. Somehow I never heard of this beer and never noticed it in local stores - there are lots of beer brands. But thankfully I bought one can of this beer during my last trip!

Karmi beer is the type you will love or hate it. Actually, that is not exactly your common beer, its ...[more]
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2009 07 17
"Now THAT'S a place for beer!" | | Comments: ON (0)
This time thanks goes to Giedrius aka Grimasa for this photo taken in Italy, Dolomite Alps. Whan cay I say - one can dream to get there, and thank you for sharing this! I think Giedrius would be able to have such blog as this and post perhaps 10 times more these type of pictures but thankfully he does not enter ...[more]
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2009 07 20
"So which one is true?" | | Comments: ON (0)
It has been already quite some time when Lithuanian beer company, Ragutis introduced beer named Volfas Engelman. It has become quite popular too, due to heavy media campaign which accented this particular beer as "old and traditional". Some also considered it's design being not bad too - I agree on that. However, this company belongs to Estonian ...[more]
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2009 10 13
"I would like to receive bussines card like that" | | Comments: ON (0)
During my trip to Serbia I got my hands on few beer cans which I proudly brought home. This time I will review one special beer - Beer Fest!

This can is more like business card for beer fest (You can read about it more here.), which takes place annually in capital of Serbia, Belgrade. It lasts for ...[more]
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2009 10 22
"There is no wrong place or occassion to enjoy beer :)" | | Comments: ON (0)
Strangely, not with this beer. This picture was proudly taken on our wedding few days ago! Thanks to my ex-girlfriend (now wife :)) for putting up with me and my attraction to beer :)

In case you are wondering, the beer in this picture is one of my favorites Russian brand, Baltika Nr. 5. And just in the background you can glorious town hall of Kaunas - city where ...[more]
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2009 11 21
"Beautiful town with great beer!" | | Comments: ON (2)
Yesterday we got back from Germany - Bremen, we have been there only for a couple of days but I have to say - very well spent days in the beautiful old town, old Schnoor quarter and we even got a tour in Bremen Haake-Beck's ...[more]
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2009 12 02
"Travel and beer" | | Comments: ON (0)
Trip to Bremen was extraordinary short - together with my wife we stayed in Bremen only for three days. Short stay indeed, but time was well spent. This trip was somewhat spontaneous - I got ticket from Ryanair almost accidentally during one of their extreme low price sales. Price was so tempting that I got 3 return trips - considering November being busy month for me - I got 3 trips for the first ...[more]
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2009 12 20
"National treasure of Montenegro!" | | Comments: ON (0)
This time I will present you national treasure of Montenegro – “Niksicko Tamno” beer. Tamno means dark, and so it is, but thought it has 6.2% alcohol it’s still mild and really tasty. I recall that one of our hosts in Serbia offered us Niksicko beer (from plastic 1.5 l bottle) and I have to say I was quite surprised that it was especially tasty beer! Usually plastic bottles ...[more]
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2010 01 21
"Beer year" | | Comments: ON (0)
I just thought, that I should summarize last year - trips, destinations, beer. Looking back I have to say - this was truthfully good year.

So, statistics:
• countries traveled: 9, all in old continent.

Italy in spring, April. Visited cities: Florence, Lucca, Siena, Pisa. A nice trip to remember! Short story about one particular object I visited ...[more]
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