Date Consumed: 1st April 2013
Beer: Club Premium
Brewed: Cerveceria Nacional Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.4%
Sourced: Brought back from Ecuador from one of my sister’s friends who was on holiday (thanks to Susie Adams)
World Beer Rating: 7/10.
Notes: This beer tastes very much like a Czech beer; hoppy and full of flavour, not like the usual South American pilsner. Mark me impressed!

Date Consumed: 5th April 2013
Beer: Club Premium Roja
Brewed: Cerveceria Nacional Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.8%
Sourced: Brought back from Ecuador from one of my sister’s friends who was on holiday (thanks to Susie Adams)
World Beer Rating: 4/10.
Notes: What went wrong? The Premium was a great beer! Not one to write home about, off-flavour caramel and a little bitter.

Date Consumed: 12th October 2012
Beer: Taiwan Beer
Brewed: Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corp, Taipei, Taiwan
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.5%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
World Beer Rating: 6/10.
Notes: Quite surprising how different this one is to other Chinese style lagers, a little grainy with a smooth finish. I probably wouldn’t drink this in a pub, but as a beer accompanying spicy food, it’s perfect.

Date Consumed: 10th October 2012
Beer: Paceña Centenario
Brewed: Cervecería Boliviana Nacional, La Paz, Bolivia
Size: 350mL
Alcohol Content: 5.2%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
World Beer Rating: 8/10.
Notes: This is rather good! Tiny bit of citrus, well carbonated, clean, fresh. I’d drink this again!

Date Consumed: 27th September 2012
Beer: Hinano
Brewed: La Brasserie de Tahiti, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 5.0%
Sourced: The Beer Cellar, Hamilton, New Zealand.
World Beer Rating: 7/10.
Notes: Before you start, yes I am fully aware that French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France. Tahiti was once however a sovereign nation (until it’s 1880 annexation by France) so I’m including this as a special entry. The beer itself is pale, well carbonated and is quite watery. Nothing particular to touch on, other than being easy to drink and having an aesthetically pleasing logo.

Date Consumed: 9th September 2012
Beer: Cerveza Barena
Brewed: Cerveceria Hondureña, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Size: 355mL
Alcohol Content: 4.6%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
World Beer Rating: 4/10.
Notes: Skunky malt taste. Doesn’t have any highlights, just a bland Central American lager. Probably a better drop when consumed in Honduras.

Date Consumed: 13th October 2012
Beer: Cerveza Salva Vida
Brewed: Cerveceria Hondureña, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Size: 355mL
Alcohol Content: 4.8%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
World Beer Rating: 5/10.
Notes: A bit crap for anything that isn’t an ice cold beer drank after a long lazy day on a tropical beach.

Date Consumed: 7th August 2012
Beer: Kalik
Brewed: Commonwealth Brewery, Nassau, Bahamas
Size: 355mL
Alcohol Content: 5.0%
Sourced: Luekens Liquors, Dunedin, Florida, United States
World Beer Rating: 9/10.
Notes: Fantastic beer from the Bahamas! Refreshing, tropical and slightly sweeter than Corona. Could add lemon or lime, but tastes wonderful just as is. It’s a real shame this beer isn’t exported to more locations.

Date Consumed: 8th June 2012
Beer: Prestige Lager
Brewed: Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti, Port au Prince, Haiti
Size: 355mL
Alcohol Content: 5.6%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
World Beer Rating: 6/10.
Notes: From a country more noticed for poverty and earthquakes, a rather lovely beer emerges! Not exactly bursting with flavour but a well balanced beer with a slight hoppy taste and a little bit of corn.

Date Consumed: 8th June 2012
Beer: Banks Beer
Brewed: Banks Barbados Brewery, St. Michael, Barbados
Size: 355mL
Alcohol Content: 4.7%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
World Beer Rating: 4/10.
Notes: Tastes rather like Old Speckled Hen. Little bit of caramel, little bit of charcoal. Nothing particularly good about it.

Date Consumed: 5th June 2012
Beer: Toña
Brewed: Compañía Cevercera de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 4.6%
Sourced: A Belarusian Deli on Ulitsa Vosstaniya near Обелиск «Городу-Герою Ленинграду
World Beer Rating: 3/10.
Notes: At first taste it tastes of nothing at all, then the more you drink the more it grows on you. Nothing special but I can imagine it tastes great in the heat of Nicaragua!

Date Consumed: 5th June 2012
Beer: FNC Pilsen
Brewed: FNC S.A., Montevideo, Uruguay
Size: 330mL
Alcohol Content: 5.1%
Sourced: Half Time Beverage, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
World Beer Rating: 5/10.
Notes: Not particularly good to be honest. Hoppy and lacking quality.