Month: May 2013

  • Tunisia

    Tunisia

    Date Consumed: 26th May 2013
    Beer: Celtia
    Brewed: Société Frigorifique et Brasserie de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
    Size: 330mL
    Alcohol Content: 5.0%
    Sourced: www.alloceltia.com
    World Beer Rating: 7/10

    Notes: What an unexpected delight, a good quality African beer! Flavours in line with Heineken and Grolsch, easy drinking. Well carbonated but very enjoyable.

    Celtia, Tunisia
  • Madagascar

    Madagascar

    Date Consumed: 21st May 2013
    Beer: Star Three Horses Beer Pilsener
    Brewed: Brasseries Star, Antananarivo, Madagascar
    Size: 650mL
    Alcohol Content: 5.4%
    Sourced: Chateau Rouge Market
    World Beer Rating: 2/10

    Notes: Madagascar, this is not a good beer. This is only just a beer. Tastes of corn and bitterness with an unwelcome metallic aftertaste. Foul.

    Star Three Horses Beer Pilsener, Madagascar
  • Réunion (FR)

    Réunion (FR)

    Date Consumed: May 2013
    Beer: Bourbon Metiss
    Brewed: Brasserie de Bourbon, Saint-Denis, Réunion
    Size: 330mL
    Alcohol Content: 3.5%
    Sourced: Chateau Rouge Market
    World Beer Rating: 3/10

    Notes: This is marketed as a fruity beer, only it has almost no carbonation and tastes like sugary water mixed with tropical fruit squash. Réunion is so small I’m impressed they even have a brewery. Probably one for the ladies on a tropical beach in Réunion…

    Bourbon Metiss, Réunion
  • Guadeloupe (FR)

    Guadeloupe (FR)

    Date Consumed: 17th May 2013
    Beer: Corsaire Biere Caribeenne
    Brewed: Brasserie du Corsaire, Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe
    Size: 330mL
    Alcohol Content: 5.0%
    Sourced: Chateau Rouge Market.
    World Beer Rating: 5/10

    Notes: Light, well carbonated, quite like a light version of Budweiser Budvar. Slight taste of chemicals; I bet this would go down like a treat in the heat of the Caribbean!

    Corsaire Biere Caribeenne, Guadeloupe
  • Wales (UK)

    Wales (UK)

    Date Consumed: 17th May 2013
    Beer: Otley O-Garden
    Brewed: Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales
    Size: 500mL
    Alcohol Content: 4.8%
    Sourced: Noble Green Wines, Hampton Hill, United Kingdom
    World Beer Rating: 6/10


    Notes: Slightly floral and tastes a little of grass. Low bitterness, easy to drink. Pretty good.

    Otley O-Garden, Wales