Today we bought some beer to try, planning to enjoy it over “Velyka Riznytsia” (a Ukrainian TV show). The gist is that after the brewery (which is in Poltava) the beer is not put into a keg, but into an expensive German wunderwafe (actually “wunderfass”), where it continues to “live.” They claim that in any other container beer quickly spoils, so it gets pasteurized and preserved, and only in these wunderfasses can it stay alive for a long time. Once poured into a bottle, according to the sellers, it stays good for 12 hours, and after 3 days it’s gone entirely. Supposedly all other “live” beers in bottles are actually a scam for suckers. This super-beer is called “Oberfest” (to sound like “Oktoberfest”), sold at Amstor, poured from a fancy technological barrel, packed into a little bag, and they even give you a club card (every 11th liter is free). In light of all this, I’m reminded of the beer from our first local brewery, whose label read “live” and “Drink beer while it is clear.” That beer was great if the production date was within 7 days. After that, the taste noticeably deteriorated. If the beer was 3–4 weeks old, it was already swill. The thing is, our Zaporizhzhia “Zhyhulivske” cost 6 hryvnias per liter, while this wunderwafe stuff costs 36.
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And neither Google nor Yandex knows anything about wunderwafes and oberfests, except for one website. And for now it’s sold exclusively in Zaporizhzhia, nowhere else.
Are we the richest here, or the most naive? Or the biggest beer lovers?
I’ll try it, and the answer will become clear.
UPD: Crap. Don’t buy it.