What do you drink for breakfast? In the magical city of Baku, where I was born, one usually drinks aromatic tea for breakfast. Traditions are still strong there and most people stick to the saying, “You eat your breakfast yourself…” Living in Israel, I can’t do that. The most I can allow myself in the […]
War has been going in our country for almost a month now. It is impossible to get used to it and our brain tries to shield us from the grief and pain in which we have been living for the last month, as if it hides all this horror in a closed cocoon inside us, […]
The people who visit my site know that I mostly write about Love, my love to beer. And now, almost a week, I can’t write a word about beer. Because there’s a war come to my home… It came early Saturday morning, when the whole country was celebrating the last day of the holiday of […]
These projects have long been discussed among brewers, but something held them back. Perhaps they subconsciously realized that this would be one of their last bastions. We are talking about entrusting artificial intelligence to create Beer. AI, commonly referred to as “Artificial Intelligence”, has already burst into our lives. More and more companies at first […]
One more year has passed. It has been different for everyone – a loved one has left us and a new family member has arrived. When one door closes, another opens, as they say. Today I want to write about what is happening to us. After living for a certain number of years, we begin […]
The term Beer itself includes different varieties, sometimes radically different from each other in taste, color and aroma. Each of these varieties has its own fans, its own serving ritual and, of course, its own appetizer. Nevertheless, there is something that unites them – common rules of storage and consumption. It is about them that […]
Today’s recipe is simple, not to say primitive. We can make it ourselves, giving our halves a rest. So, here is a recipe for an easy to prepare, but tasty appetizer for beer – halibut with tomatoes. Ingredients: 2 fillets of halibut or flounder fish (Hebrew: (דג סול) 6 medium tomatoes 3 medium garlic cloves […]
Israeli craft brewery Shikma has released a limited edition of a new beer – Smoky Ale. The beer is very beautiful, it has a fine-grained, persistent foam and good body with a relatively low alcohol content of only 5.1%. Very unusual new beer has a strong smoky aroma, which after the first sip turns into […]
I, Rafael Agaev, am a professional brewer. I have been working for an international brewing concern for more than a quarter of a century. I am developing new brands of beer.
My second specialty is a professional beer taster and judge of beer championships, including international ones. In addition to popular lectures about beer, I regularly conduct tastings and master classes on brewing beer, including abroad.