Sergey has a Siberian approach to beer…
“It tastes like water, just better” he used to say at the beginning.
Little by little he has developed what is rather unusual for a Russian, the fact that it’s possible to have a drink only for the pleasure of the taste, without any need to push all to the limits and to get drunk.
Sergey is not a drunkard, so he considered himself a teetotaller…
For Russians, it seems, there are not many nuances, or half ways, in a matter of drink; they either drink for the result, which is getting drunk, or don’t.
It was so amusing and also so rewarding for me to see him changing his mind on this kind of preconceived ideas.