Excursion to the Moscow brewing company. Inside the brewery or how to get on a free tour

I really like beer and excursions to various industries. Therefore, when I was invited to the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company, I gladly agreed.

It is generally accepted that we have nothing to see, and few places are allowed. But anyone can get on this tour! You will be met at the subway, quickly brought to the plant, told and shown how and from what beer is made, and then they will also be treated to them! And all this is absolutely free!

The other day we went on this excursion together with the lead singer of the Nogu Svelo group, Maxim Pokrovsky. At the same time talking about the freedom of photography.

And the factory employees, having learned that Ternovsky had come to them, immediately asked for stickers “You can take a picture!” To paste them over everything! Well done! ;)

I will not talk about how beer is made. It is best to find out for yourself by signing up for such an excursion through the IPC website - http://www.mosbrew.ru/

I can only describe my experience. Everything is very fun and interesting. Guides meet guests and show the whole process of beer production. The main brewer of the IPC is Mikhail Ershov!

By the way, one of the main products of the IPC is Zhiguli beer. Many confuse it with Zhigulevsky, but in fact they have nothing in common.

One of the walls of the shop where beer is brewed was made transparent. Passing by the factory by car, you can see this room from the street - it looks very cool!

Malt tasting.

The coolest place is where the brewed beer is chilled.

Laboratory.

The pride of the IPC is the only membrane filtration system for beer in Russia. This is the most environmentally friendly way to filter beer today.

Filling shop. Max is holding a plastic blank of a future two-liter bottle of beer. He, of course, immediately offered a lot of options for its use, and asked for a few things for himself.

We did not manage to catch the bottling process itself. It turns out that the entire workshop, together with the equipment, is washed several times a day. Even if one brand of beer is bottled on the line, after four hours of work everything is stopped and completely processed.

The entire tour takes about two hours. Not a small part of her time is occupied by tasting! The amount of beer is not limited;)

We also tasted beer before pasteurization and filtration. It is, of course, a completely different drink. Much more aromatic and tastier. True, its shelf life is only 1-3 days. Max likes wheat and unfiltered beer the most, as well as ale!

At the end of the meeting, Max spoke about our fight for the freedom of photography:

Come by yourself, or in a fun company with friends, it's interesting!

You can also learn more about how to get on a free tour of the factory here.

Champagne is an ancient drink dating back to the 17th century. About who and when the first champagne was produced, as well as to become a true connoisseur who understands the production of champagne, you can by visiting an excursion to the Moscow Champagne Winery.

The Moscow Champagne Wine Factory (MKSHV) is one of the oldest and largest champagne factories in Russia.

Excursion to the MKShV includes:

• excursion directly to the champagne winery,
• visit to the wine materials workshop,
• master class on the choice of champagne, the rules of drinking champagne,
• tasting of blended wine and ready-made champagne.

The excursion to the champagne plant also includes an interactive part, where you will be given the opportunity to participate in the lottery and win a gift - a bottle of collectible champagne from the Moscow Champagne Winery.

After the tour, all participants will visit the MKSHV brand store, where they can purchase any product they like.

Group tours to the Champagne Winery

City Voyage accepts group applications for pre-formed groups.

An excursion to the Moscow Champagne Winery can also be visited as part of a combined group of 20 to 30 people.

The cost of an excursion to the factory of champagne wines as part of a combined group

1250 rubles for 1 person.

The cost of the tour includes: excursion service at the champagne factory, entrance tickets, services of a professional guide in Russian, rental of a comfortable bus or minibus, depending on the composition of the group.

Important! The cost of a group excursion to the MKSE is valid for the number of participants from 19 to 30 people.

Individual excursions to the Moscow Champagne Wine Factory

An individual excursion to the production of champagne wines is carried out for any number of tourists.

An individual approach and an individual tour will allow you to ask all your questions and not miss a single detail about the champagne production process.

When planning an individual excursion to the MKShV, you can choose any date and time to visit the plant.

It is possible to conduct a tour in a foreign language.

The cost of an individual excursion to the production of champagne

900 rubles for 1 person.

Important! When ordering an individual tour, the minimum payment is for 18 people.

The price includes: services of a personal guide in Russian, entrance tickets, excursion service to the MKShV.

Attention! Additionally, you can order transport from us for rent: cars, minivans, minibuses or buses of any class, depending on the number of people on the tour.

The procedure for organizing and booking group and individual excursions to the production of champagne

Reservation of an excursion to the Moscow factory of sparkling wines is carried out 1 calendar month before the planned date of the excursion.

Entrance to the territory of the plant is carried out strictly by passes. To order passes, you must provide a list of everyone who will be on the tour 1 week before the tour.

An urgent organization of an excursion to the champagne factory is possible.

Excursions to the MKShV are held daily from 12.00 to 18.00. The duration of the tour is 2 hours.

Detailed program of the excursion to the Moscow factory of sparkling wines

The excursion to the MKShV starts from the entrance to the plant.

An honored employee of the plant and a professional guide meets guests at the entrance, where the history of the Moscow Champagne Winery begins.

Tourists will walk along a glass corridor from which a view of the entire territory of the MKSV opens.

During a tour of the champagne winery, tourists will learn many stories about the life and work of the plant.

About how the knowledge of the production of champagne is passed from generation to generation. After all, the taste of champagne depends on the champagne maker, which remains unchanged for many years.

Through a glass corridor, the group enters directly into the wine materials workshop for the production of champagne.

Here you will be shown and told what materials champagne is made from. How wine is delivered, stored and blended.

You will also have the opportunity to taste the blend from which champagne is then made.

During the tasting of the blend, you will be told about the methods of champagne production, how the classical method of champagne production differs from the reservoir method, what is the "exchange" champagne, and also about the contribution of well-known people such as Pierre Pérignon and Madame Clicquot to the production of champagne.

On a tour of the factory of champagne wines, you will find a master class on the opening and proper bottling of champagne.

Professional winemakers will tell you how to choose the right champagne, to what temperature champagne should be cooled and what it is served with.

During the master class, the guides will reveal the secrets of sabrage - opening champagne with sabers.

At the end of the tour, all tourists will have a tasting of ready-made MKSHV champagne directly from the “tap”.

After a tour of the Moscow Champagne Factory, a visit to the company store is provided, where you can purchase any product you like.

A tour of the production of champagne will make you a true connoisseur of the drink of kings.

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If you love beer as much as I love it 😎 or just love excursions, go to excursion to the Moscow brewing company, which is located near Moscow, 3 km from the Moscow Ring Road, in the city of Mytishchi.

About the fact that the Moscow Brewing Company conducts free tours, and even with tasting, I knew for a long time, but somehow there was no time (or desire) to sign up and attend this event. But last Saturday I decided: “That's it, we need to go” and we went to see the beer factory and, of course, taste it.

Excursions to the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company are held on weekends: Saturday at 13:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00, V Sundays at 13:00, 15:00 and 17:00. The tour is free, but you must pre-register on the website. The tour of the plant itself with the story of the guide lasts an hour and you are given an hour to taste beer and other non-alcoholic drinks that are produced at the same plant.

How to get to the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company

The plant of the Moscow Brewing Company is located at: Mytishchi, Volkovskoe highway, possession 12. We were driving by car, there were no problems finding the plant. There is also a place to park, there are many parking spaces at the entrance to the territory of the plant.

If you are without a car, then for your convenience a free bus runs from Medvedkovo metro station. Bus departure times 12:30, 14:30, 16:30 and on Saturdays at 18:30. Travel time to the plant is 20-30 minutes.

Our review of the excursion to the Moscow Brewing Company

We arrived a little earlier than the start time of the tour, waited a little in a cozy hall on sofas, wrote down our data and passport number in the registration book (documents are needed to visit the plant, but in fact no one asked them). Very soon a group gathered - about 20 people, there was even a family with a child, and we went on an hour-long tour of the plant.

First, the guide told us about the history of the Moscow Brewing Company, about what types of beer they brew and warned that at the end of the tour there would be a quiz with prizes, so that we would diligently listen and remember the information. As a result, we memorized all the dates, but it turned out that we had to remember the name of the workshops and the names of the beers 😎

The plant of the Moscow Brewing Company began its work in 2008 with the production of Zhiguli Barnoe beer, which is currently number one in sales in Moscow. Now the plant supplies more than 30 brands of beer and soft drinks and is one of the ten largest beer producers in Russia.

Since 2012, the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company began production of Khamovniki beer - as a continuation of the history of one of the oldest breweries in Moscow - the Khamovnichesky plant, built 150 years ago.

Now the brand "Khamovniki" has 7 varieties of beer: "Khamovniki Pilzenskoye", "Khamovniki Munich"(I have it in my fridge right now) Khamovniki Vienna, Khamovniki Wheat, Khamovniki Kegovoye, Khamovniki Grand El, Khamovniki Table. Of all these varieties, I liked Kegovoe the most. Grand El is fine too, but I don't really like Eli.

Tour of the brewery workshops

After a short story, we were taken to the workshops of the plant. First we got into brewhouse. In this workshop, the wort is brewed, 6 huge boilers are used for brewing.

Take crushed malt and mix it with water. A mash is formed, which is kept at a certain temperature, constantly mixed. The malt starch is converted to sugar, then the mash is filtered and the wort is obtained. And water for cooking is taken from 4 wells, which are located on the territory of the plant. Since ancient times, it has been believed that here, in Mytishchi, there is delicious water.

The wort is then boiled with hops. The brewhouse is very hot and stuffy.

Then in yeast department(where outsiders are strictly forbidden to enter and therefore we were not allowed to go there) yeast is added to the wort and this mixture enters the fermentation shop.

IN fermentation shop after 7-10 days of fermentation, young beer is born. Then the beer is still kept for 1-2 weeks at a temperature of 1.5 degrees. It is very cold in this workshop, take warm clothes with you 😎

Fermentation shop - it's very cold here 🙂

Then we visited filtration shop, passed by laboratories(in order to put the beer on sale, you need to do 150 tests!) and ended up in beer bottling shop.

We also learned that the brewing process is monitored around the clock by 5 people: the shift supervisor and four operators. The whole process is fully automated.

A short video from our tour of the brewery

Beer tasting at the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company

After an hour of walking through the stuffy shops of the Moscow Brewing Company, we went down to the first floor to the buffet, where the beer tasting took place. To be honest, I didn’t even expect such an excellent tasting: each visitor is given an empty glass, and you can go to the bar counter for beer as many times as you like within an hour.

We have already been to the brewing museum in Lviv, there was also a tasting of Lviv beer, but then we were given two small plastic cups with beer. Well, I thought that it would be the same at the Moscow Brewing Company 😎

Here, at the Moscow Brewery, one could taste 7 types of fresh beer! In general, who needs it, you can nagustrovatsya very well! So come on a tour without driving! Who doesn't drink beer without snacks (nuts, chips, crackers) - take it with you 😎 You could also try soft drinks: kvass, energy drinks, sweet water.

The beer was really delicious. Especially Khamovniki Kegovoe and Zhiguli Velvet (dark).

On the territory of the Moscow Brewing Company there is a shop where, after tasting, you can buy all the products. Sold as beer in bottles and on tap. But, unfortunately, the store is open until 9 pm, we had to leave the tasting early and run to the store, but we didn’t have time to buy draft beer, we had to be content with bottled beer.

I advise all beer lovers to go on an excursion to the Moscow Brewing Company! We loved it, we'll be back! 😎

Over the weekend I made an excursion to the Moscow Brewery, which is located in Mytishchi (Volkovskoye Highway, possession 12), by the way, a free bus runs from the Medvedkovo metro station. At 12:30 we left the metro by bus, only 15-20 minutes away and we are at the plant of the Moscow Brewing Company

and here we are at the main entrance to the plant. Please note that the handles are made in the form of the letter "M" and there is still a sign - Photography is allowed!

interesting wall

on each it is written: Beer Zhiguli

little note:

The launch of the production of the Moscow Brewing Company was carried out in September 2008. The enterprise is located in an ecologically clean area, which has long been famous for its delicious water. On the territory of the plant, which occupies 14 hectares, at a depth of 190 m and 320 m, there are 5 own artesian wells. It is this water that is used for the production of all drinks of the Moscow Brewing Company.

Our tour guide is Anna. Before the start of the tour, everyone was given a type of player with headphones, in which Anna was clearly audible. This is done for the convenience of the participants of the tour. Since there is noise in the production in some workshops, and in order not to scream, Anna speaks into the microphone, and everyone listens to her attentively through the earpiece

Diplomas and awards of the Moscow Brewery

and so our tour began

Anna tells about what the plant produces, what products it produces. The most popular beer produced by the factory is Zhiguli beer and Khamovnichesky beer, as well as Faxe beer. The plant is also a distributor of perriel drinking water, Erdinger, Padeberger beer and other products of foreign manufacturers.

those gathered on the tour listen very carefully to Anna

the audience could take a picture in a mug hat :)

Light malt, caramel malt, roasted malt, hops

you can take any product to try, and just take it as a keepsake

and here is the brewhouse itself. Wort kettles

you can't see through the camera, but if you look closely, you can see how the process is going

people who follow the process. In general, there are not many people here, the whole process is computerized

About 1500 people work at the enterprise itself, and only about 200 people directly at the production itself.

after the brewhouse we go to the fermentation department

between themselves, the employees of the plant call it Maternity. The temperature in this workshop is only +5 degrees. There are huge cones (there are a lot of them and they are not really big), in which beer roams

and this is the central laboratory. The girls who work there are extremely cute. They monitor the quality of their products. Also every morning, one of the girls tastes the product (one or two sips)

The bottling shop of the plant

now Zhiguli beer is running along the tape

Beer Zhiguli Bar - Brewed according to the recipe of the Zhiguli restaurant of the same name on Novy Arbat. Classic camp. For the production of beer, malt, Zatec hops and Mytishchi water from a depth of 320 meters are used. Brewed without high-gravity brewing. The fermentation process takes 21 days.

quite a lot of cans fall from the belt, but all this is already included in the cost of production

and this turns out to be not just small plastic test tubes, large (1.2; 2 and 3 liters) containers for beer and drinks are blown out of them

on the tape for bottling is already another product of the plant

mountains of bottles waiting to be filled

on the filling tape, beer flows in an endless stream. At the factory, the quantity of products is calculated in Hectoliters (1hl = 100 liters)

On this, our tour of the production ended, but we were in for another little surprise - beer tasting

We were taken to the canteen of the factory. Very cozy room, with creative and comfortable chairs

having a snack you can play table football

about an hour is allocated for tasting :) It was possible to taste beer: Faxe, OtTTINGER, Zhiguli, Selka, Khamovnichesky (I liked Khamovnichesky, delicious beer the most)

the tasting process reminded me of a vacation somewhere in Turkey, when you just go up to the bar and say what to pour for you :)

there is a souvenir shop at the factory where you can buy interesting gizmos

beer mugs from 140 rubles, gift beer sets (4 types of Khamovniki beer in one box), they also sell Zhiguli sneakers and sweatshirts :)

well, back to the subway we were again delivered by a free bus

I really liked the excursion to the Moscow Brewery, it turned out to be a positive walk

Thanks to all the employees of the plant and especially to our tour guide Anna!

Tours take place on weekends, the tours start at 13:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00. You can sign up for a free tour on the website of the Moscow Brewing Company