It was established on November 10th, 1991[1] by Volodymyr Yermakov, Petro Serhiyenko, and Pavlo Tarnovsky.
[2] It is not associated with another Russophone organization, Ukrainian Beer Lovers Party, UBLP (Russian: Партия любителей пива, Ukrainian: Українська партія любителiв пива, УПЛП), which was not officially registered.
[2] The party broadly aligned itself with liberal-democratic positions, and advocated for a cosmopolitan society on with foundational values of respect for private property, free market economics, and universal human rights.
The party advocated for the formation of a civilized, respectable, gentlemanly elite class of beer drinker.
[5] In 1997, UBLP joined the bloc "Free Democrats" (Свободные демократы), which included the Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine and Party of Free Peasants of Ukraine (Партія вільних селян).