World Beer Challenge
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.
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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…
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!
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.
Date Consumed: 29th April 2013
Beer: Liechtensteiner Brauhaus Hells
Brewed: Liechtensteiner Brauhaus, Schaan, Liechtenstein
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 5.0%
Sourced: bierpost.com
World Beer Rating: 4/10.
Notes: I expected more since Lichtenstein is sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria with Germany to the north, but this tastes like burnt caramel with a metallic aftertaste. I have a couple more from this brewery, lets hope they get better!
Date Consumed: 29th April 2013
Beer: Liechtensteiner Brauhaus Krona
Brewed: Liechtensteiner Brauhaus, Schaan, Liechtenstein
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.8%
Sourced: bierpost.com
World Beer Rating: 4/10.
Notes: Nothing special here either except it’s got a strange metallic flavour.
Date Consumed: 23rd April 2013
Beer: Parbo Bier
Brewed: Surinaamse Bierbrouwerij, Paramaribo, Suriname
Size: 1000mL
Alcohol Content: 5.0%
Sourced: ServiceNow colleague in the Netherlands who posted a couple of bottles over from Amsterdam (thanks to Micha Schraven)
World Beer Rating: 5/10
Notes: Definitely suited to a tropical environment as the beer itself has no strong flavour. Bonus points for boldly shunning a 330mL bottle in favour of a gigantic 1000mL bottle, why can’t more beers come in this size?
Date Consumed: 23rd April 2013
Beer: Chisnau Blonda
Brewed: Efes Vitanta Moldova Brewery, Chisinau, Moldova
Size: 500mL
Alcohol Content: 4.5%
Sourced: www.piwazdusza.pl
World Beer Rating: 6/10.
Notes: Classic Eastern European lager with no particularly good points other than I could happily drink a few on a hot day.
Date Consumed: ?
Beer: Fullers London Pride
Brewed: Fullers Brewery, London, England
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.7%
Sourced: Randwick Cellars, Randwick, NSW, Australia
World Beer Rating: 5/10.
Notes: Hate to rate my home country with anything less than 10, but London Pride is not the best tasting (ale) out there.
Date Consumed: 16th April 2013
Beer: Beavertown Dishoom India Pale Ale
Brewed: Beavertown, London, England
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.8%
Sourced: Dishoom, Shoreditch, London, UK
World Beer Rating: 6/10.
Notes: What a fantastic IPA. Bursting with flavour, especially citrus. I’d absolutely have this beer on a regular basis if more widely distributed. Great with spicy food.
Date Consumed: ?
Beer: Innis & Gunn Rum Finish
Brewed: Belhaven (Greene King), Edinburgh, Scotland
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 7.4%
Sourced: Leura Cellars, Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
World Beer Rating: 9/10.
Notes: A 9 for Innis & Gunn, who make incredibly good beer, this one with the wonderful sweetness of rum – the dark colour of the beer is gorgeous. This beer is brilliant!
Date Consumed: ?
Beer: Brewdog Cocoa Psycho
Brewed: BrewDog, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 10.0%
Sourced: A Belarusian Deli on Ulitsa Vosstaniya near Обелиск «Городу-Герою Ленинграду
World Beer Rating: 10/10.
Notes: Absolutely stunning. Chocolate, coffee, insanity. 10% ABV to match a 10/10 score. This is one of the greatest stouts ever made. God damn.
Date Consumed: ?
Beer: Never Mind The Anabolics
Brewed: BrewDog, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 6.5%
Sourced: Kris Wines, Greater London, UK
World Beer Rating: 8/10.
Notes: Another great beer from Brewdog. Intense fruit and hoppy flavour from just the smell! Goes down great, a little bitterness to finish off.
Date Consumed: 10th April 2013
Beer: Polar Pilsen
Brewed: Empresas Polar, Caracas, Venezuela
Size: 500mL
Alcohol Content: 4.5%
Sourced: Pronto Brazil and Latino Importers via www.amazon.de
World Beer Rating: 7/10.
Notes: This beer is light, refreshing and I suspect excellent on a hot summers day in Caracas. Slight citrus with light hops, definitely easy going. It’s number 100!
