Russians Classify Beer as Alcohol - FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Russia is a wonderful place. Top food. Awesome vodka. Cheap vodka. Lots of vodka.

I don't remember much about their beer, to be quite frank. And neither, it seems, do they.

Finally, beer is being classified as alcohol. Kind of a shame because if it was still classified as a soft-drink/soda, it wouldn't be an employment contract violation to have a few litres with lunch, would it?

Read the article at the other end of the link for more edifying prose about this momentous occasion in beery history: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8342920/Beer-to-be-classified-as-alcohol-for-first-time-in-Russia.html

Not yet beer o'clock - Yeasty.