>>Been there last year - and we can't call it "a situation" anymore. It's really good.
>
>So it was not only me thinking that beers quality used to be catastrophic
>in 90ies. (Like everything else for that matter).

Ten days before leaving the country in '99, it was our birthday (daughter #1 born same day a I), and I wanted to buy a few bottles of ZIP's dark. Drove my bicycle all the way to the brewery, and no shops had it. And I actually had to take a sidestreet, because the Koče Kolarova was closed - the Days of Beer festival procession was just about to start from Birc kod Šante to the brewery, with the four fat horses coach, tambour band etc. I was faster on a bicycle, of course, so at the brewery gate I got right in front of the cameras and microphones. Thanks for the publicity guys, I'd just want to buy some beer. The shop is right at the gates, and guess what - no dark beer. They still owed a lot of money to Šećerana (the sugar refinery) and didn't have any sugar to make caramel to paint the beer. And they weren't using hops and rye for quite a while already, they had switched to corn, then to corn substitute, then didn't really have the money to pay for that either.

That's how you get to ruin a brewery which is older than Guinness (1745 proudly displayed on each bottle of... well, wasn't exactly something you'd call beer). Tried some of it last summer, and it almost had the smell and the taste like it had in the seventies, but everyone else was already doing much better.

>I went to 'Domino' few times but in late 80es. I never saw before (or later)
>such funny looking (diesel?) heater. It just needed few led indicators and buttons and you could easily mistake it for - TimeMachine!

I remember such heaters, they were quite popular in late seventies and eighties, but I think they were using heating oil.

Domino was an unique case of ownership. It was bought from previous owner by one of its most regular guests - Bela Becker, the guy from the Hungarian programme of the Radio Novi Sad. Now imagine you were somewhat in show business, and had your regular bar, and one day you just buy the bar :).