Beer in Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

Beer in Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian language: пиво/pivo) is rarely talked of outside of its state, regardless of its quality.

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Appearance

Beer is mostly sold in half litre bottles (empty bottles must be exchanged while buying or if not, bottles must be bought with beer as well); cans are less common and canned beer could be of slightly better quality. Recently, most breweries began packing beer in plastic bottles of 1.5 or even two litres. This beer is cheaper though equal in quality.

Most beer that is produced is light beer. Dark beer is rarer (almost every larger brewery produces dark beer but in such small quantities that it is hard to find it). Some breweries also produce kvass or a similar drink.

Beer in glass bottles costs around 45 dinars (0.69 euros) per litre while in plastic it could go as low as 35 dinars (0.54 euros) per litre. Beer in pubs costs around 100 dinars (1.54 euros) per litre. Of course, it is possible to buy foreign beer in better equipped stores, of these Heineken being most popular; but it is inaccesible to average citizens.

Quality

Which brew is the best, and indeed which brews are good or bad is, of course, a disputed subject.

In an on-line poll[1] (http://www.krstarica.com/eng/poll/index.php?anketa=125) conducted by the largest Serbian search engine Krstarica.com, 5304 visitors have voted on what is the best domestic beer. The winner was Jelen with 30% of the votes, followed by MB with 26%, and Nikšićko with 16% while all other brews have 7% or less votes. Of these, Jelen has richer taste and especially smell than MB but causes signifficantly worse hangover; while Nikšićko is a class of its own, being about 50% more expensive than other brews.

It is important to know a phenomenon caused by competition between breweries, most notably between the breweries of Apatin and Belgrade. When one brewery starts making beer of higher quality, more and more people start buying it; because of high demand the brewery begins hyperproduction of beer, and as a result of this its quality drops; meanwhile the other brewery, having low sales, improves the quality in order to attract customers; people switch back to it and the circle starts again.

Breweries and brews

Beer festivals

Dani Piva (days of beer) (www.zip.co.yu/dani_piva.asp) is a beer festival in Zrenjanin, started in 1985, organised by the Zrenjanin brewery Zrenjaninska industrija piva.

Much younger, but larger, is the Belgrade Beer Fest (www.belgradebeerfest.com), which is being held in Belgrade, in the Kalemegdan fortress. In addition to all domestic and various foreigns brews at affordable prices, the several day long festival has live music concerts each evening.

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