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A Tasting Tour of Russian Craft Beer

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Craft beer is all set to replace vodka as Russia’s go-to tipple. The Russian beer scene is evolving rapidly with the rise in the number of brew-houses and equipment modernization. Moscow is driving the craft beer trend and establishing Russia as one of the world’s top three beer producers. 

Keen on helping yourself to some delectable, artisanal Russian craft beer? If yes, embark on a beer tasting tour of Moscow. It’s an entryway to the world of Russian craft beer for someone with a more evolved palate like you. It’ll change your standard drinking experience for good.    

Roam through the streets with a local guide and crash into some of the best craft beer bars in Moscow. The guide shares your passion for craft beer, isn’t it obvious? The tour lasts for at least three hours, involving a visit to three or more different craft brew houses and bars in Moscow.      

Want some info on the city? The guide keeps you covered. Do you know the city well and just wish to beef your knowledge on the craft beer on offer? The guide keeps you covered with this too. From the evolution history of Russian craft beer to fundamentals of brewing, recent trends, varieties available, and brewery spotlight – know whatever there’s to know.  

The guide listens to your taste and cravings and suggests some local and non-local craft brews accordingly. The overarching objective of the tour is to help explore the sights and sounds of Moscow while savouring some delectable craft brews and gaining new insights.

Velka Morava | Moscow, Russian Brewery

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For years now, we have been combining beer brewing traditions and modern technology to malt the finest Velka Morava beer. To preserve history, preserving traditions is a must. That’s why we craft the finest Velka Morava with the age-old Russian recipe, as it’s supposed to be.

Influenced by the Russian brewery for creating the premium Russian beer, we constantly learn and develop and thus, look to bring something innovative to the world. We have been brewing beer for people who don’t live by inertia but like to make informed choices, even if they have to drink a glass of beer.

European Style Malts

Castle Malting is known to be one of the experience breweries, specializing in Czech-style camp beer and other European-style malts to make beer drinkers’ familiar with the traditional tastes of their favourite brew.

In recent years, our brewery has been also focusing on top fermentation varieties, including porters, stouts, IPA, pale ale, and New England IPA. Strong and dense varieties, such as imperial porters, stouts, barleywines and doppelbocks, are always present in our brewery line. Besides, occasional brews with both foreign and domestic breweries are a part of our range of varieties.

Velka Morava – Authentic Taste

The Russian Brewery producing the classic Velka Morava has been known to deliver the classic taste for decades. We try to maintain the same authenticity of the brew to ensure that the beer-enthusiasts don’t miss out on the original taste.

You may find this classic malted beer and other European-style brews in our wide range of products on the official website.

Learn about how to make craft beer and brewing.

Is Gluten-Free Beer Good?

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With people’s increasing demand for gluten-free beer due to health conditions like celiac disease, Castle Malting has come up with better brewing alternatives that don’t contain gluten.

We have recognized the need of glue-free customers to enjoy their favourite beverage without gluten ingestion. Our dedicated gluten-free brewery also caters to people with gluten intolerance and health-conscious beer drinkers who follow a gluten-free diet.

What is Gluten in Beer?

Gluten is a set of proteins, known as glutelins and prolamins, which occur within the endosperm of many cereal grains. It is considered bad for some people because it triggers an immune response, which may damage the small intestine lining. It can further interfere with the absorption of major food nutrients and lead to issues like infertility, nerve damage, osteoporosis and seizures.

Gluten-Free Beer

Castle malting uses buckwheat to create gluten-free beer. For 5% ABV beer per hectoliter, we use 25kh Castle Buckwheat, 1.5 kg rice husks and an artificial amylase enzyme to prepare gluten-free beer. Since buckwheat is known for containing no gluten, it’s a perfect ingredient to brew beers for our gluten-averse customers.

Gluten-Free Craft Beers for Community

Since the mid-1800s, people are found to be suffering from ill-effects of celiac disease. However, the grains responsible for this health condition were discovered in the 1940s. After the 1960s, many brewers have started brewing gluten-free craft beers. Now with the increased demand for reduced-gluten and gluten-free craft beers, many reputed breweries like Castle Malting have been catering to everyone who’s part of the gluten-free beer community.

Brewery Spotlight: Castle Malting Brewing Company

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Beer is one of the most popular drinks across many countries and societies. With varying types and alcohol percentages, it is one of the most preferred when it comes to choosing an alcoholic drink for the day or when you want something light. In Europe, there are many breweries, which produce world-class beers of different varieties. Among them, Belgium is like a heaven for beer lovers. Castle Malting is one of the oldest steam breweries in the area. It offers more than a thousand varieties of beers to satisfy their vast range of customers. Belgium malts like Castle Malting are very famous and are exported to more than 100 countries worldwide.

How does Castle Malting brew the beer? Beer brewing is basically fermentation of grains ranging from wheat, barley, and even rice. The grains are allowed to sprout and then ingredients are added to bring out the rich flavour and aroma to produce different kinds and qualities of beer malts.

Hybrid Beer Production Process

Castle Malting has a hybrid process of beer production wherein they blend the old and the new technologies to get the best products out for the customers. They make sure that their processes are environmental-friendly causing as less damage as possible to the ecosystem.

Premium Quality Products

Castle Malting products are premium and quality oriented ranging from basic Belgium malts to more premium beers brewed specially for a certain taste and colour. The company has also developed a unique malt roasting and fermenting technology, which is a world-class beer brewery. The company follows strict rules in maintaining high quality and standards of the process and also the plant. It has assured the conformity to many industry standards of food safety management in the world. Many quality analysis tests of the grains are used while making the malts and the end product tests are conducted regularly to ensure the best service in the industry.

With beers offered in all ranges from basic to premium, Castle Malting has been delighting its customers with class, quality and innovation always. Check out their wide collection of beers today!