Monday, April 9, 2012

Baltika 4

I took this picture some years ago while visiting Moscow with Erik Rottmann (right) and our friend and translator Konstantin Komarov (left). 

We stayed three days at a “flat” in a high rise building. After arriving in Moscow by train from Riga, Latvia, our first stop (after Red Square) was a supermarket to get provisions for our temporary “bachelor pad”.  Within a few short minutes in the store we had a full basket of the food we needed: some sausage, some bread, coffee and a dozen eggs.  Then we went to the beer aisle where it took us more than a half an hour to fill our basket with beer, picking up one bottle at a time, asking Konstantin to decipher the labels for us, taking a little of this and a little of that.  What fun!


I’m continually grateful to Konstantin for introducing me to Baltika’s line of beers.  I like all the even numbered ones, but “4” is in the top five of my all time favorite beers.

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