Tallinn

Spent the first cold day of the winter on a day trip to Tallinn.

Took the morning ferry, whose trip towards the steaming sea (quickly freezing up at -16C) was on the surreal side.

Spent most of the day walking and shopping, stopping for a quick lunch at Clayhills in the Old Town. Sadly their house beers were probably the weakest links on the menu, and the food was heavy on the batter.

The last stop of the day was Uba ja Humal, a beer shop I’d heard plenty of good things about. The grapevine did not do justice to the place, the selection was wide and reasonably priced, the location out of the downtown hustle. In my best “kid in a candy store”-impression managed to buy no less than 38 beers, and take no pictures whatsoever. Concentrated on Estonian beers and picked up a couple of others along the side as well.

Tallink had expanded their range of beers in the ship’s tax free store to cover domestic craft breweries as well, picked up two sixpacks worth of them.

A cabin on the backswing was a very useful purchase, and fortunately the car hadn’t suffered in the freezing weather in the harbour either.

A very nice shop indeed, and one where I aim to return in the spring. It’ll be a while before this stash runs dry.

FI: Tallinnan olut-tarjonta yllätti talvimatkailijan.