Art Zhitnik

July 23, 2019

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Visiting the St. Petersburg brewing musem

I was recently in St. Petersburg and visited the brewery museum of United Breweries of Heineken. It's a small, cozy cellar in one of the historic buildings of the Stepan Razin brewery. Manager Galina Vsevolodna Klyarovskaya gave an engaging tour, covering various eras of brewing.

In tsarist times, beer was bottled in these beautiful bottles, stamped with the Emperor's supplier's stamp. Galina Vsevolodna holds a bunch of ceramic corks from them. Many were found on the factory grounds.

I was primarily interested in the Soviet period and corks. I found this exhibit on one of the display cases:

An ancient steel crowncap of Stepan Razin. The number was missing from the catalog. I tried to take pictures this way and that, but it still turned out bad. Unfortunately, the display case didn't open. We agreed with Galina Vsevolodnaya to photograph the cork separately in case of rearrangements in the museum...

Bottling line 1960s.

This is already a post-Soviet assortment. Here is a limited edition released as a gift to Kim Jong Il.

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