I Tried Every Beer In Belarus…It Took Three Days

🇧🇾 There are six towns in Belarus which have their own breweries. They are Brest, Lida, Vitebsk, Rechitsa, Bobruisk and Minsk. And so I decided to go on a grand tour and try them all…in the cities where they are brewed. Join me on the no lockdown grand Belarus beer hunt.

put your hands in the air 
if you like to drink beer good because today i’m taking you on the great 
bella russian beer adventure i’m about to go to the railway station jump on a train and um i’ll 
explain to you what it’s all about let’s do it up here we’ve got a list of the romantic 
sounding names that we can travel to stop chi smalovici asipovici but we’re jumping on train 
661 the 753 down to the city of brest down on the polish border right six six one where are you six 
six one vietnam breast track three platform two track three platform two what the hell 
is the difference between a track and a platform let’s go and find it oh my god 
how lucky was that straight away breast 753 i was panicking about nothing we 
found it already let’s jump on the train number 17. there are six cities in belarus that 
brew their own beer they are brest leader vitabs and minsk and so i’m going to travel around 
each of those six cities and try the local beer and have a little look around the towns 
as well maybe so um yeah i’m now gonna have a little bit of sleep because it’s very early and 
um we’ve got a five hour train journey ahead of us down to brest where we’re going to begin the great 
beer adventure so um if you want to have a little look around belarus and you want to see me try 
some local beers then you’re in the right place see you in five hours in 
brest on the polish border [Music] welcome to brest finally we made it all 
the way down here in southwest belarus i hardly got a minute sleep i’m absolutely 
shattered but um let’s go to a shop and get a beer wake me up a little bit and 
then i’m gonna take you to a place of um well of great historical significance 
which i think any of you second world war history buffs are going to enjoy so 
yeah let’s begin it let’s go get a beer central supermarket let’s 
check it out shopping center used to us we’ve got no idea no one’s got 
any idea where the breast beer is register well it’s a lovely day and 
it’s a beautiful city but um it’s becoming a bit of a mission i thought i was 
gonna get off the train go into a supermarket buy a bottle of breast beer and then um yeah 
going to show you what i want to show you but it turns out they don’t sell much breast beer 
in breast ah jeez so i’ve got a walk oh if i’ve got to walk a long way i’ve got to go across that 
bridge in the distance man what am i gonna do if if old breast beer factory has gone bankrupt let’s try this big supermarket they don’t 
have it here they don’t have it anywhere might be some old dusty bottles on 
a shelf that no one wants let’s see yes we found some breast beer wow thank god for 
that the challenge continues it’s called do treat strong i don’t know what it says 
but anyway let’s um let’s get out of here and let’s drink some beer wow brisket eva the 
best on the morning of june the 22nd 1941 hitler began operation barbarossa the invasion of 
the soviet union and it began in the exact spot i’m about to show you breast fortress 
let’s go inside and let’s have a look around for the first 12 days of the war the 
defenders of the fortress held on under stuka dive bomb fire artillery machine gun 
charges from the german soldiers on those first few days they held on valiantly fought 
off attack after attack until finally there was no more ammunition left to 
defend the fortress and the inevitable happened at the end of the war in 
recognition for what the soldiers went through in the defense of 
the soviet union on that first day breast fortress was named a hero fortress along 
with 12 other cities maliensk murmansk tula kirch novorosisk sevastopo adiessa 
minsk kiev volgegrad leningrad moskva well if ever there was a place that deserved to 
have a beer raised in its honor on this journey it is most certainly breast fortress so um yeah let’s 
try the old breast peever whatever it’s called let’s give it a go to the 
defenders of the fortress not bad huh actually quite nice 
all right onwards to leader i don’t think there’s gonna be 
any soviet murals inside breast bust station let’s try and find a bus up to leader nothing to leader only to garage so yeah we can’t go to leader 
direct we have to go to grodner we get in tonight at six something so god knows 
how i’m gonna get from grodner to leader tonight crikey i might have to crash on elena’s 
granddad’s floor you’ll finally get to meet him all right let’s do it oh comfortable so what time is it eight 
o’clock there’s a train leaving for leader the last train of the night in 20 minutes 
so um yeah i’m going to try and get on it vauxhall [Music] that driver looked just like lukashenko it was 
a spitting image of the president wow maybe it was him maybe things have gotten that bad 
for the economy anyway after this train is my train to leader bye bye 
grodner it’s been emotional bloody hell grodno what’s with your weather 
it was like 30 degrees in brest this morning and now look at it absolutely grim 
what’s it gonna be like in leader grimm real provincial better russian train 
not like the ones with the beds goo lecturing the last passenger on the night train to 
leader everyone’s got enough apart from me this is the kind of situation 
where if it was a russian film some gopnicks would get on and give me a you 
know good old kicking but no gotnicks they’ve all gone on they’ve all gone to bed it’s 
just me the dark foreigner heading to leader wow welcome to leader at midnight oh what’s that i see in the distance oh man please have a room please have a 
room please have a room please have a room only if i hadn’t done my 14 days in 
minsk i wouldn’t be allowed to stay [ __ ] what’s this place gonna be like oh kind of what i expected pity is 
a single bed but anyway got a tv got a fridge got a nice little kettle for my 
noodles a lovely picture a little bathroom and all for the princely sum of i think twelve 
dollars u.s a tenner to us brits so um that’s it yeah end of the first day the great bella 
russian beer hunts not be much beer is there well he had one but um tomorrow that’s going 
to change we’ll definitely find beer in leader it’s famous for the bloody stuff and there’s 
something historical i’m going to show you so um yeah until tomorrow good night from leader never 
thought i’d say that to somebody till tomorrow jesus right day two let’s begin it with some beer 
and history [Music] and some snow and frostbite oh man what’s happened to 
the bella russian weather it was like 25 degrees yesterday 
in brest this is insane guys this behind me are the 
walls of the great leader castle built in the 1300s by the lithuanians 
and it demonstrates just how tumultuous tremendous is that word tumultuous the history 
of belarus is because since it was built it’s been sacked by the swedes by the poles 
by the russians by the germans by the french by the mongols by the knights that’s right 
they had bloody knights on horseback with swords and stuff and crosses attacking this 
place and this i just bought in a hotel lobby is leader beer it’s called legendary white 
beer yeah legendary beer let’s try is it legendary not as legendary 
as the castle anyway a toast to belarus and its freedom struggle over 
the centuries wow bloody hell this is a nightmare um yeah let’s get to railway 
station time for the terms let’s do it [Music] blue oh welcome to beetubbs let’s go and 
get beer oh what a soviet looking town in england we have streets like oxford road and 
london street something like that baker street but here in belarus they have cool sounding names like 
red army street imagine living on red army street when someone said where do you live and you could 
say i live on red army street or soviet avenue or 40 years of the glorious revolution road 
we just start calling our streets things like that in england and europe what street do you 
live on i bet it’s not as cool as soviet army street almost guaranteed i see a nice soviet 
looking shop across the road wow called viesta hopefully it has some good old vitepskian deer oh i got told off for filming in the shop not 
allowed to film in shops in belarus the lady said my first enemy in beetups right we’ve got the um local beer and now 
i’m going to show you something historical again here in beetubbs and that was the 
soviet shop with the soviet shop workers i’m outside the house of the artist mark 
chagall mark chagall grew up here in vitovsk mark sigal is the guy who drew the fantastical 
paintings of jews flying over the tops of villages in belarus playing fiddles check him out sometime 
and i’m now going to try some dwinsky brevard which is the beer that mark sugar would have drunk 
if he was still alive actually he might have done they first started brewing this in 1850 so um 
yeah maybe old mark had a pint or two let’s try it i doubt he did it’s rank well that was mark 
chagall’s house which was probably the worst museum i’ve ever been to they didn’t even 
have any of his bloody pictures in there crikey all right on to the next town 
of wretched sir down on the denipa crikey let’s hope the weather’s better down 
there i’ve got a long journey ahead of me oh well after god knows how many buses 
and a night in a soviet hotel i finally finally arrived in richitsa an old river trading 
port on the banks of the dunepa so um let’s go and buy beer and look at something interesting 
i’ve met a young man here in richardson who’s going to show me where to buy wretched sabir 
which is made in retchitsa right right right but uh lying you it’s a 
wretched beer but it’s very good okay this dude said i’m going to show you wretch 
it’s a beer and we came he said i lied to you i don’t want you to try richard sir i want you to 
try something else okay across the road brother you’ve killed me there come on let’s go to the 
other shop that’s why richardson ah oh my god why didn’t you listen to me when i said 
richard you lied to me well unbelievable i thought that bella russian people were 
honest and we’ve discovered we’ve discovered the first liar in belarus who took me 
to a shop that doesn’t sell rich it’s a beer wow wretched skull yeah wow which one do you think blue one or golden one you like this one 
better yeah you want a bottle of wretched let’s have a bottle of wretched sir [Music] 
let’s do it okay we found it that was easy when your friend doesn’t lie to you find it 
straight away good man thank you for your help you’re not a real gothnick what 
the [ __ ] you’re not a gothnick only got knicks can do this oh yeah 
richardson got knicks in the house so behind me flows the mighty denipa river 
the dunepa river that rises up in the hills near smaliensk and comes down through belarus 
down through the ukraine into the black scene it was along this river that the roost tribe 
came in their boats from sweden vikings and they founded towns and trading stations like 
wretched sir and kiev all along this river the roost is where the people who are 
from russia get their name uruzki’s from that roost tribe all those many hundreds of 
years ago so let’s raise a glass of wretcheds of beer to the original vikings nikita you’re a 
viking there we go cheers to the roost tribe that is a good beer why did you say it was 
bad you don’t like it just not bad but not a good thing mikita is not a patriot he is not 
a patriot he says that he prefers belgium beer my man makita here was just telling me that 
a packet of cigarettes a packet of camel in belarus costs two rubles even one ruble 
so like basically a packet of camel cost um 50p and a bottle of beer costs the same so 
for like one pound one pound fifty you can have a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes 
wow you brits should all move over to belarus come to richardson because villarreal is a very 
poor country basically that’s the reason i suppose nikita nice to meet you hey nice to meet 
you we’ll see each other again i hope yeah yeah definitely thank you so 
much it’s always really interesting and thanks for the beer see you soon my friend wow 
what a legend all right off to the brusque well i’ve just been trying to get a ticket to babrus 
from the bus station there’s no buses or trains today or at least not until later in the evening 
so um i’ve ordered a cab a bit cheating but i’ve ordered a cab going to jump in it and um yeah 
let’s um get up to a brusque and um have a beer and buy my t-shirts this is going to cost 
a fortune buy some merch for god’s sakes is the second to last town on the great beer 
adventure is anyone else losing the will to live watching this because i’m losing the will 
to live making this two more beers oh and then we’re over there was only one place i could 
bring you to for my brewesque beer and that is the brewery soviet bus station are you hungry if you’re hungry 
maybe i can introduce you to some bella russian food at the station yeah it’s time to try the old beer from babrusk 
which is called bobrov from babrusk and let’s raise a toast to um soviet architecture and soviet 
bus stations in particular say what you want about the soviet union but they sure knew how to build 
a good old bus station so run yeah here’s to that wow that is the worst beer of the trip so far wow the trip’s almost over thank god i thought 
it’s going to take like a day and this is what the end of the third day so um yeah let’s get to minsk 
and grab the final beer of the trip yes we did well we’re back in minsk where it all started all 
those days ago so um let’s go and have the final beer some local brew some local 
beverage from minsk let’s go and do it oh [Music] well we had a good old adventure didn’t we we’ve 
seen some towns in belarus you might not have seen before even i haven’t seen before and we tried 
some random beers some good ones like in brest and in leader and some nasty ones like in babrusk 
and vitovsk so i suppose the final toe should be for the beers of belarus that’s a good one 
let’s try it since 1864 alivaria broodin minsk a good one we finished on a good 
one thank god all right guys thanks for joining me hope you enjoyed 
it something a little bit different and um until next time from no 
lockdown belarus take it easy guys