Cardinal Blonde
Brewed by Feldschlösschen (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Rheinfelden, Switzerland
Over 125 years ago, Cardinal beer was born in Fribourg, western Switzerland, famous as a festive beer and popular in the French speaking part of the country.
It all started in 1788, when daddy François Piller, owner of the “Zum Lachs” inn, in the town of Fribourg, decides to have a brewery built for his son, who just recently graduated as a Bavarian master brewer, a nice fatherly thing to do (if you have the money!).
In 1877, a Paul Blancpain took over the brewery. This is where real change was made, with the brewery developing massively both in technological development and the opening of wider commercial markets. With the introduction of large-scale refrigeration, it was a good time to have a brewery.
in 1890 something was to happen that changed the company forever. The Pope nominated a Cardinal from the town of Fribourg, something which was a great honour for the very religious region at the time. To celebrate this great occasion for the town, Brasserie Blancpain brewed a festive beer called the Cardinal. Proving to be a real best seller, Paul Blancpain decides to rename his brewery to be now known as the Brasserie du Cardinal. Overtime the beer was synonymous with Fribourg, a local institution well loved amongst the people of the town.
In 1996 Swiss beer giants Feldschlösschen, in what they do best, took over the small company and in 2011 production was transferred from Freiburg to Rheinfelden, the HQ of the parent company.
Review: 33cl bottle of Cardinal Blonde: 4.8% vol.
Available to buy in Coop, one of Switzerland’s largest discount stores.
Golden colour with a rather smallish white head on pour.
Some carbonation going on, but head dies and it all goes a bit flat in the end, Not a looker.
An aroma of light lager, light malts, the grains, corn, but not much else, rather faint and disappointing on the nose.
Tastes is ok, nice and smooth is my initial reaction, lovely crisp mouthfuls, wonderful coming cold from the fridge. Very nice, such a shame not much in the bottle.
I like it, very smooth, a nice light bodied lager that is so very easy to drink. But fuck all in the bottle! Lots of malts and barley, grains, all balanced very well, mild hops, no bitterness or offensive tastes.
Not a huge amount of flavours or tastes, but just so smooth.
Recommended. Just a light bodied lager that does the basics right, keeping you refreshed and happy.
Will try again, for sure. Very sessionable, and for a light lager it does the business.
Arcobräu is a brewery in the Lower Bavarian small town of Moos, in South Eastern Germany, close to the Austrian and Czech borders. The brewery has been owned by the Arco-Zinneberg family for 450 years and is one of the larger breweries in the region with annual sales regularly hitting the 20 million Euro mark. 
Cool looking blue logo, woman with a pitcher on the nice brown bottle. 
Tastes citrusy and grainy, and very light, clean and easy to drink. 
Like Alexander, the beer has had to fight and battle its way to the top. Unbelievably by the mid 1990’s a nation as old and great as Greece didn’t even have one 100% authentically Greek owned beer that was produced in the country!!
On pour we get a light yellow coloured beer with a small white head. 
Very malty for sure. Also getting the fresh grains and some fruit. 
Athenian Brewery SA was founded in the 1960’s by a group of Greek entrepreneurs and is a member of the Heineken Group. One of the oldest brands of beer in Greece, since 1961, and plays on its heritage with its authentic Greek name and origin proudly on display. 
On pour I get a golden coloured beer with a desperately disappointing head. No head really to speak about. Some carbonation going on, but not enough to give the beer a decent head.
One of these immigrants was a Johann Ludwig Fuchs, a miner. He was the one who had started the Fuchs (Fix) activity of brewing beer in Greece. As he was from Bavaria he had the deep knowledge of what constituted good beer. Unfortunately on the way to pick up his son, who was arriving from Germany, he was robbed and killed, so that it was to be that the young Karl Johann Fuchs was in a foreign country and suddenly in charge of his fathers fledgling business at just 20 years of age! 
But the good luck eventually ran out as in 1983 the company fell into bankruptcy, and the family owned business was closed down thus ending the legacy of the Fuchs family, in brewing at least. 
On pour I get a very nice and very frothy white headed beer, with a golden colour.