Abbaye de Vauclair Rubis
http://www.abbaye-vauclair.fr/
Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant (Saint-Omer)
Style: Fruit Beer
Douai, France
The Vauclair Abbey was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1134 by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, located in the North Of France. Supported financially by rich families, the abbey quickly prospered and was given several estates and farms, until the French Revolution in 1789, when it was finally demolished and sold as “national property”. Then World War one lead to further damage from artillery fire…..to where today only ruins remain. What remains of the site is an arboretum of apple and pear trees and a medicinal herb garden. It is not clear if the Brewery is located within distance of the ruins of the Abbey, but, knowing Lidl, it is probably not!
Review: 33cl Bottle of Abbaye de Vauclair Rubis (Ruby): ABV: 5%
Bottle from Lidl, France
On pour looks like pop, is there really alcohol in this? No head to speak of or carbonation, but a nice dark ruby, red colour is present. It is a lovey colour really.
On the nose I got a really lovely smell, a very distinctive sweet red berry like aroma which was quite nice I have to say. Very sweet, very clear and strong fruity aroma and very distinctive. had the wow factor on the nose.
On taste, well it is all a little bit chemical, a bit of a stringent taste.
Can taste the berries, or at least I hope they are berries!
It is ok, bit of an aftertaste, that does just enough to remind you that this is a beer.
Not bad. I like it. It’s fruity, has sweet malts, and it quenches the thirst and has just about enough of a kick to not make it a fruit juice!
Now I know some will put their noses up at this beer, but hell, I liked it, so its a thumbs up from me, and coming from Lidl its shit cheap as well.
Strong enough too, alcohol does kick in after the 2nd bottle.
Now I wouldn’t know if I’d drink a whole lot of these but its ok. Yeah it is very drinkable. Not to down, but to saviour, one or two on a hot day, and that would be more than enough, surprisingly decent.



The Eichhof brewery is a brewery located in the picturesque city of Lucerne, in the heart of Switzerland, and on the go for more than 180 years. The beer is everywhere, appearing all over the small country, you cant go far without seeing its name light up some bar sign or on street hoarding.
On pour we get a very clear, lovely, yellow looking beer, with some nice carbonation, bubbling along, and a nice white head produced. Definitely looks the part, nice colour and a nice head, some lacing apparent.
It is extremely smooth, of light body and easy to drink, that would be the pure Swiss waters I am sure, but I am not picking up any tastes or flavours at all, nothing that stands out. 
August 28, 1865, saw the birth of the Ganter brewery when the 24 year old Ludwig Ganter founded his micro brewery in the centre of Freiburg.
Coming in a cool swing/flip top bottle with an interesting label, the beer apparently uses the same recipes that go way back to the founder Louis Ganter.
On the taste….well it is very tasty that’s for sure, very hoppy as well.
Red stripe original, brewed in Jamaica and not the Jamaican STYLE lager that Americans get, from Latrobe, Pennsylvania!
For the rest of us, Desnoes & Geddes still make Red Stripe for Jamaica, Brazil, Canada and Europe, and in 2015 it became a subsidiary of Heineken.
A nice head that maintains, and some nice lacing.
The brewery now boasts over 8,500 proud shareholders and the beer continues to grow in popularity. But they dont issue dividends. The reward for investing in the company is beer, and lots of it, shared out at the general assembly where over a 1000 people celebrate the success of the company by drinking, partying and a little bit of boardroom management.
Fantastic looking bottles, pretty ladies always catching the eye.
On taste