First brewery in Nagorno-Karabakh!

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Message YantarCoast P beers 4644 º places 210 º 13:09 Sun 5/7/2017 Just noticed that Nagorno-Karabakh has a single drinker on the Most Difficult Countries to Drink page. https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/central-brewpub/31249/ A bit of searching shows that this place has been open since at least 2013: http://gulikbeer.com.ua/xank%C9%99ndi-stepanakert/tsentral.html Roughly translated: 01.2013 9 Grigor Lusavorich Street Khankendi (Stepanakert) Nagorno-Karabakh 01.2013 – The first brewpub, Central, has opened in Khankendi (Stepanakert), the capital of the unrecognised republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. The pub is owned by Edik Stepanyan. Equipment has been supplied by Czech company J. Hradecky s.r.o and is capable of producing 6,000 dekalitres (da) of beer annually. The brewpub currently has a single beer and does not produce any beer-related merchandise.
Message minutemat P beers 14700 º places 551 º 13:22 Sun 5/7/2017 I’m passing there tomorrow, will have a look
Message adamnowek beers 7151 º places 117 º 15:36 Sun 5/7/2017 So cool! I really need to get on planning a trip to the unrecognised states of Europe.
Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 15:42 Sun 5/7/2017 I heard it was a Baltika 7 rebadge.

Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 15:43 Sun 5/7/2017 But seriously Yantar, I reckon if anyone could get a case of the beer it’s trade value would be massive.
Message 77ships P beers 14200 º places 919 º 15:52 Sun 5/7/2017 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-6WweqD0Y
Message CH-303 P beers 4551 º places 137 º 15:57 Sun 5/7/2017 ISO
Message omhper P beers 40272 º places 332 º 16:56 Mon 5/8/2017 Actually this has been on the site for a good while: https://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/Beer/ShowBrewer.asp?BrewerID=19580 I however received trustworthy information from a Moscow based tour operator that it was closed, hence it was retired. Can you verify that the rating is new, and that the brewpub is still open?

Message YantarCoast P beers 4644 º places 210 º 01:04 Tue 5/9/2017 Originally posted by omhper Actually this has been on the site for a good while: https://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/Beer/ShowBrewer.asp?BrewerID=19580 I however received trustworthy information from a Moscow based tour operator that it was closed, hence it was retired. Can you verify that the rating is new, and that the brewpub is still open? Oh, sorry, I didn’t notice that. I will look into it. The guy’s rating contains the phrase "Currently this is the only brewery in the country" so I assumed it wasn’t a backlog rating.
Message adamnowek beers 7151 º places 117 º 05:15 Tue 5/16/2017 Not to bring this back up again, but the one user that has rated this beer ( https://www.ratebeer.com/user/94354/beer-ratings/) has a pretty suspicious series of ratings: 178 ratings, 178 countries, and most of them were done over the course of a couple of days. Smells fishy.
Message YantarCoast P beers 4644 º places 210 º 00:39 Wed 5/17/2017 Originally posted by adamnowek Not to bring this back up again, but the one user that has rated this beer ( https://www.ratebeer.com/user/94354/beer-ratings/) has a pretty suspicious series of ratings: 178 ratings, 178 countries, and most of them were done over the course of a couple of days. Smells fishy. Yeah, I pointed this out previously when he had around the same amount of ratings, maybe 176 (all backlogged?), which all contained comments like "I tried this a long time ago, can’t remember the taste". I think that he had all those rates converted to ticks. This time it seems that he’s rated them again, but with slightly more detailed descriptions. Getting back to this Nagorno-Karabakh beer, I wrote to this guy on May 8 asking whether it was a recent rate, but haven’t received any reply. So it’s questionable as to whether this beer actually exists anymore. Although someone posted a photo of the brewpub to FourSquare a couple of days ago: https://foursquare.com/v/central/513e0c4be4b0923350badf73 So perhaps it’s still there.