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Bulgaria, anyone?


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KnutAlbert 4375:207
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t seems like I will find myself in Bugaria for a few days next month. Does anyone have any (updated) info on beers, brewpubs, the beer scene in Sofia in general?
Googling is more difficult when they use an alphabet that is unfamiliar!
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ALLOVATE 1530:71
I have no idea, but on the bright side you can write up a report for anyone else looking at venturing there for travel. Maybe you’d be more surprised without a beer itinerary, let the life and locals lead the way. No ratings, ahh well, you’ve still been to Bulgaria!!!
Prost,
Dan
2/9/2007 8:40:42 AM

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Marko 2977:161
If you’ll visit Sofia, do check out this...
http://ratebeer.com/Ratings/Beer/ShowBrewer.asp?BrewerID=5498

Seems to be a brewpub.


Oh, right...
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2007-01-14/1013992.html
2/9/2007 9:35:23 AM

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Marko 2977:161
http://www.bulgarianbeer.com
http://www.pivovari.com/Breweries/Breweries-1.html
http://beerme.com/breweries/bu/index.shtml#4570

Hmm... almost nothing that’s not on rb is mentioned anywhere. Pri Kmeta is the only brewpub I can trace.

There’s some "microbrewery" called B’lborg (Бълборг) in Trud... (I put the link only cos of the pic ;)) It’s not on RB.
http://www.eunet.bg/bgnews/show_story.html?issue=255259808&media=3669536&class=251783808&story=255261600


Found also this on nubo.ru.
Установлен он в помещении ресторана на склоне горы Витоша. Наверное, это самый высокий над уровнем моря пивзавод, который лично я посетил за свою жизнь. В последние годы ресторан не работает, но пивзавод (оборудование и технология HBH ) исправно варит пиво. Это пиво можно попробовать в баре "Лучано". Там же удалось добыть и бокал HBH , единственный пивной атрибут пивзавода с горы Витоша. Завод варит, в том числе, темное пиво, которое просто обожает единственный софийский пивной коллекционер Людмил Фотев , собиратель бутылочных пробок. Огромное спасибо Людмилу, его семье и близким друзьям за помощь в посещении Болгарии !!

It’s a bout some microbrewery on mount Vitosha (near Sofia) that used to be a brewpub but lost the "pub" part, and now just brews beer (HBH style) and the beers’ available at some bar called Luchano (in Sofia I guess). Then it says that the "only beer collectioner in Sofia, Ludmila Fotev, loves their dark beer"...
2/9/2007 10:12:59 AM

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Oakes 9988:591
I’d highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the alphabet, though. I’d be suprised if you could find much of anything without it. It only takes a few hours. 2/9/2007 10:14:25 AM

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Marko 2977:161
Originally posted by Oakes
I’d highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the alphabet, though. I’d be suprised if you could find much of anything without it. It only takes a few hours.


That too. Heck, if I managed to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet from a picture book without any help when I was 6 years old...
2/9/2007 11:07:33 AM

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Marko 2977:161
Another relevant link (in Bulgarian, so of little use to you).
http://www.underlog.org/beer/

Still, it helped me find the adress of that Luchano bar with the HBH beer.
Birarija Luchano
pl. Slaveikov No. 9
tel: 9803050
2/9/2007 11:23:54 AM

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Oakes 9988:591
Originally posted by Doggythedog
Originally posted by Oakes
I’d highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the alphabet, though. I’d be suprised if you could find much of anything without it. It only takes a few hours.


That too. Heck, if I managed to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet from a picture book without any help when I was 6 years old...


Easy for a Croatian to say...
2/9/2007 11:43:12 AM

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Marko 2977:161
Originally posted by Oakes
Originally posted by Doggythedog
Originally posted by Oakes
I’d highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the alphabet, though. I’d be suprised if you could find much of anything without it. It only takes a few hours.


That too. Heck, if I managed to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet from a picture book without any help when I was 6 years old...


Easy for a Croatian to say...



Yes and no. Most, nearly all people my age (even older) can’t read it, have few places to learn it from and no real reason to learn it.

But yes, it was easier for me because the "Standard Croatian language" is similar, almost identical, in a lot of aspects to "Standard Serbian language", and because there was that ancient picture book in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (and, obviously, in Serbian) at my grandparents’ place. I would identify and name the animals on the pictures, and so decypher what was written below them in Cyrillic alphabet...

I was just seconding your statement that it’s easy to learn.


Googling is tricky even for me because I have to copypaste the characters (I lost the Unicode .txt files I made that contained Cyrillic, Georgian and Armenian alphabets).
2/9/2007 12:15:59 PM

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in Bulgaria be wary

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=76156
2/10/2007 10:09:21 AM

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KnutAlbert 4375:207
Thanks a lot, Marko. There is a distinct possibility that I’ll be in Croatia for a week this summer. If so, I’m sure there will be a box in the mail for you.

(If the package mail from Bulgaria to Croatia is cheap, tell me soon...)
2/10/2007 5:41:58 PM

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