Varvar Brew

Vasyl Mykulyn ran a brewpub in Donetsk from 2008 and left after the 2014 occupation. In 2015 he founded Varvar in Kyiv with Oleksii Havrysh and Nataliia Kovalevska, starting with a taproom in a former sawmill, and an EBRD loan paid for brewing kit from Hungary. Varvar began ageing beer in oak barrels in 2017 and bottled its first barrel-aged and wild sour beers in 2018. It stopped brewing for several months in 2022. Citra APA is its American pale ale. In 2026 the Dutch shop Hoptimaal and the Swedish distributor Brill & Co sell its beer.