If you are in Lithuania you already heard that phrase at least one time - „in Lithuania there are two religions – bear and basketball – everybody drinks beer and everybody knos how to play basketball“, so where to look for good local beer? While in most pubs you can find only most popular beer brands like Švyturys, Kalnapilis, Utenos, there are few places you can try small breweries’ beer (in Lithuania beer is probably most popular drink and there’s about 70 small breweries and abou 10 bigger ones ) and one of them is situated just few steps from town hall. Bambalynė is beer basement which offers some snacks and also variety of local beers – about 50 different kinds of beer (it was counted that in Lithuania there are about 300 kinds of local beer). Cozy atmosphere, friendly staff and no mobile connection gives perfect chance to enjoy that. Also it is possible to buy some bottles – perfect gift for friends or family members at home.
Bambalynė also offers degustations – price is 40 lt (about 13 euro) for person. Degustation contains stories about chosen beer, snacks – fried bread, smoked Lithuanian meat, cheese and so.
Bambalynė (name is not fully translatable to english, but bambalis is russ-ianian phrase for plasti bottle containing alcoholic bewerages, usually 1 liter and alus means beer, so Bambalynė – plane where you can fiind beer in bigger than usual 0,33 liter bottle)
Stiklių str. 7
http://www.bambalyne.lt/?page_id=11
