Date Consumed: 5th October 2019 Beer: Ngok Brewed: Brasserie du Congo, Brazzaville, Congo Size: 650mL Alcohol Content: 5.0% Sourced: Les Terroirs du Congo, Rue Labat, Paris, France World Beer Rating: 4/10. Notes: Brewed by Heineken Congo and tastes a lot like Heineken. Not great, a bland lager with all the hallmarks of an African beer brewed for a hot market.
Date Consumed: 28th August 2019 Beer: St Louis Export Brewed: Kgalagadi Breweries, Gaborone, Botswana Size: 330mL Alcohol Content: 4.7% Sourced: Suitcase from Botswana. Thanks to Jonathan Rudd! World Beer Rating: 5/10. Notes: Brewed for the export market. Nice carbonation, refreshing. Not bad at all. Very similar to Carlsberg.
St Louis Export, Botswana
Date Consumed: 28th August 2019 Beer: St Louis Lager Brewed: Kgalagadi Breweries, Gaborone, Botswana Size: 330mL Alcohol Content: 3.5% Sourced: Suitcase from Botswana. Thanks to Jonathan Rudd! World Beer Rating: 3/10. Notes: Not as good as the Export version by a long way. Bland, low carbonation, lacks flavour. Lower alcohol, which may contribute to the poor effort.
Date Consumed: 9th January 2019 Beer: Xirdalan Export Brewed: Carlsberg Azerbaijan, Xırdalan, Baku, Azerbaijan Size: 440mL Alcohol Content: 3.6% Sourced: Suitcase beer from Baku Azerbaijan (thanks James Cook) World Beer Rating: 4/10. Notes: It’s brewed by Carlsberg and it tastes of Carlsberg. Surprising hop flavour, more like a Polish lager. A difficult country tick!
Date Consumed: 8th January 2019 Beer: Föroya Bjór Classic Brewed: Föroya Bjór, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands Size: 330mL Alcohol Content: 4.6% Sourced: Keflavík International Airport, Reykjavík, Iceland World Beer Rating: 6/10. Notes: A true to style dark lager; slightly sweet, not bad at all. I’d enjoy a couple but its not a style I enjoy.
Date Consumed: 12th November 2018 Beer: Stella Lager Brewed: Al Ahram, Giza, Egypt Size: 500mL Alcohol Content: 4.5% Sourced: Bekya Middle Eastern Kitchen, Harold Park, Sydney NSW, Australia World Beer Rating: 4/10. Notes: African lager is African lager. Suprised continued use of the word Stella hasn’t got some Belgian lawyers up in arms. Wasn’t expecting much, did not deliver.
Stella Lager, Egypt
Date Consumed: 12th November 2018 Beer: Meister Max Brewed: Al Ahram, Giza, Egypt Size: 330mL Alcohol Content: 8.0% Sourced: Bekya Middle Eastern Kitchen, Harold Park, Sydney NSW, Australia World Beer Rating: 5/10. Notes: Wasn’t expecting much as before, but this high alcohol beer wasn’t bad! Oh, its warming up. It’s not as good.
Date Consumed: 29th October 2018 Beer: Wadadli Brewed: Antigua Brewery (Royal Unibrew), St. Johns, Antigua & Barbuda Size: 250mL Alcohol Content: 4.8% Sourced: Suitcase beer from a supermarket in Antigua & Barbuda (thanks Jim Marlow) World Beer Rating: 4/10. Notes: Caribbean lager, served in a smaller 250mL for quick drinking and many of them in the heat! Nothing too exciting but not unpleasant either.
Date Consumed: 28th March 2018 Beer: Lidskoe Pilsner Brewed: Lidskoe Pivo, Grodnenskaya Oblast, Lida, Belarus Size: 500mL Alcohol Content: 4.2% Sourced: A Belarusian Deli on Ulitsa Vosstaniya near Обелиск Городу-Герою Ленинграду World Beer Rating: 3/10. Notes: Absolutely nothing to report on this one. Pilsner, bland, slight cereal taste, mildly bitter.
Date Consumed: 26th March 2018 Beer: Kazbegi Tbilisi Beer Brewed: Kazbegi, Rustavi, Georgia Size: 500mL Alcohol Content: 4.8% Sourced: Garcon Bistro, Nevsky Avenue, 95, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia World Beer Rating: 4/10. Notes: It is quite literally identical to every other lager in the former Soviet Union. that is to say, pretty basic.
Kazbegi Tbilisi Beer, Georgia
Date Consumed: 26th March 2018 Beer: Kazbegi Porter Brewed: Kazbegi, Rustavi, Georgia Size: 500mL Alcohol Content: 5.8% Sourced: Garcon Bistro, Nevsky Avenue, 95, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia World Beer Rating: 6/10. Notes: A touch watery but has a definite slightly smokey porter taste which I would describe as Soviet… if thats a fair way of describing it?
Date Consumed: 28th September 2016 Beer: Jalam Khar Brewed: MCS Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Size: 450mL Alcohol Content: 5.0% Sourced: A shop in Ulaanbaatar, sold by Ghengis himself? Suitcased to Sydney (thanks to Jim Cook) World Beer Rating: 3/10. Notes: Mongolian Heinken is the best at a descriptive flavour; it wouldn’t be out of place on draft with Carling and Carlsberg. I feel the need to lead a new Mongol Empire!
Date Consumed: 7th August 2015 Beer: Bière Lorraine Blonde Brewed: Brasserie Lorraine, Le Lamentin, Martinique Size: 500mL Alcohol Content: 5.0% Sourced: A shop in Paris, no idea where… (thanks to Jim Cook) World Beer Rating: 1/10. Notes: This beer is devoid of all flavour save the presence of chemicals. The legend goes ‘it tastes better in the climate of which it’s brewed’. However in this case, there is no climate on Earth excusable for it.