Beck’s
Brewed by Brauerei Beck & Co.
Style: German Pilsener
Bremen, Germany
Beck’s is a pale German pilsner brewed by Beck’s Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., in the northern German city of Bremen. Since Beck’s is located on the river of a port city, it was easy to ship out its product to the world at large and one of the reasons why it is the biggest-selling German export around the globe.
The brewery was formed under the name Kaiserbrauerei Beck & May O.H.G. in 1873 by Lüder Rutenberg, Heinrich Beck and Thomas May. In 1875, Thomas May left the brewery which then became known as Kaiserbrauerei Beck & Co.
Beck’s striking logo, is a silver key on a red shield, and is the mirror image of the coat of arms of Bremen.
The Beck’s Brewery sponsor Bundesliga team Werder Bremen.
The beer won gold in the prestigious World Beer Cup under the category of German-Style Pilsener, in 1998
Since 2008 it has been part of Anheuser-Busch InBev..
The US manufacture of Beck’s has been based in St. Louis, Missouri since early 2012, by Anheuser Busch InBev. An unpopular move which has seen many customers complain about a perceived change in the quality of the product, and which also saw the Brewery lose a class-action lawsuit as it “tricked consumers into thinking Beck’s was a German beer,” (The Wall Street Journal). Which to be fair they deserved a bad rap with packaging that contained ‘German Quality’ beer and ‘Originated in Bremen, Germany,’. That was just asking for trouble.
Review: 16 oz Can of Beck’s: ABV: 4.9%
This is the canned version straight from Germany and not the green bottle variety that many have complained about on the various beer sites. So I imagine should be less skunky.
Incidentally, Becks were the first German brewery to use green bottles.
On pour get a very clear, very, very clear, light golden yellow appearance, with some nice carbonation, bubbling away. Has a decent sized frothy white head that looks good, but does reduce in size but maintains overall.
Some small lacing. Overall looks pretty decent
For the aroma I get a very slight whiff of a real beery smell, but its quite faint, can smell the grains, all nice but faint.
On taste we get a nice creamy intro…..but there is a very strong lingering bitter taste throughout that pierces this beer. It is slightly stringent and not very nice to taste
No real aftertaste.
Bit of a cardboard taste detected as well.
Is possible to get a nice mouthful and the beer has some depth to it with the barley and malts, but….that overall sour bitter taste prevails, of sweet corn perhaps, and its not good.
Overall, I found this beer fairly hard to stomach to be honest. Not a good beer at all!
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!
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.
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.