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Snowy Yuzu Beer

Snowy Yuzu Beer

Snowy Yuzu

www.singhacorporation.com/snowyweizen

Brewed by Boon Rawd Brewery
Style: Weissbier
Bangkok, Thailand

Snowy Yuzu BeerBoon Rawd Brewery is a Thai brewery based in Bangkok and was created in 1933 by Phraya Bhirom Bhakdi (Boonrawd Sreshthaputra). Their best-known product is the pale lager Singha, found up and down the length of Thailand and popular with ex-pats especially. Other well known beer brands it produces are Leo, U, Snow, and Asahi. It also produces soft drinks and bottled drinking water.

Review: 490ml can of Snowy Yuzu Beer 4.5% vol.

Cans that can be bought anywhere really, but always to be found in Thailand’s ever reliable 7/11’s!  Snazzy logo on the can, a bear with some tree tops or even hops on its back, who knows, but its a nice looking can all the same. 

Snowy Yuzu BeerOn cracking open the can I immediately get the smell of fruit……. very strong on the nose, coming at you straight off the bat! Of fruits and citrus.

In fact the smell is probably of the Yuzu (hence the name), a citrus fruit that looks like a small yellow orange found in China and Japan, and with a similar aroma to a lemon and a grapefruit. I don’t know but it is what I was picking up on the nose anyway. Smells a lot like a fizzy lemonade.

On appearance, it looks cloudy and hazy on the pour with a golden colour emerging, some fast and lively carbonation too.  The white head does die a death. Not a great looking beer if truth be told.

Sure enough the taste is similar to a lemonade….. overloaded with citrus and fruits why wouldn’t it be anything else! One can definitely taste the orange peels. 

A harmless drink to try, not sour or bitter or any rough tastes, generally smooth to drink albeit it is slightly sickly with all the sugar and I doubt I could drink too many without getting a little bored of it. Basically its a lemonade with some beer. It says 4.5% alcohol, but its extremely well hidden as there is no kick to this, very light to drink. 

Mild and inoffensive, like a weak shandy. Charming and perhaps interesting for a try for one or two, but nothing else. Not a great looker but drinkable if nothing better is at hand!

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Full Moon Malt Strawberry

Full Moon Malt Strawberry

Full Moon Malt Strawberry

www.fullmoonbrewwork.com

Brewed by Full Moon Brewwork (Natural Malt Brewing)
Style: Flavored – Fruit
Patong, Phuket, Thailand

Full Moon Malt StrawberryFull Moon Brewwork, opened since 2010, is a micro-brewery and restaurant situated in Patong, on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand. They produce German lagers, English style bitter ales, and classic Belgium “weiss”  beers amongst some more novelty brews and craft cocktails, all at the same time as running a fully functional restaurant and bar on site of their brewery. 

The artisan brewery combine traditional beer brewing methods and modern craft beer styles mixed in with local Thai influences and creativity. By adding local ingredients such as Thai GABA rice, Thai black sticky rice, and the peel of Thai tangerines, distinctive “Thai” flavours are achieved in their colourful and exciting craft beers.

Review: 490ml can of Full Moon Malt Strawberry 5% vol.

Full Moon Malt StrawberryComing in a very nice and colourful strawberry red can, doesn’t look much like a beer at all but more a can of soda. 

Like the coloured can, the beer also has a stark red appearance, but also, surprisingly I guess, a decent sized white head…. which does maintain relatively well. 

Naturally as it is a strawberry beer then of course the expected aroma is to be of strawberries, and yes that is what one gets, but its slight and a bit astringent too on the nose.

A little chemically on the nose. bit like burnt sugar and too sweet!

But overall the aroma is on the low level……not a whole lot overall to smell to be honest. 

Full Moon Malt StrawberryThe taste was disappointedly bland. For all the talk of strawberry there was not so much of that at all to savour or taste. 
A slight taste of malts but not so much. A very chemical taste as so often you can get from these kind of fruit beers, they tend to be overload with artificial sugar and sweeteners, or at least that’s what it tastes like.

Very carbonated too. Took a while to settle, giving it a very bubbly and fizzy taste.

Taste more carbonated , bubbly in taste. Overall not very good at all. Very artificial and chemical.  Forgettable, sorry to say.  

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Brewdog Lost

Brewdog Lost

Brewdog Lost Planet First Lager

www.brewdog.com

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: German Pilsner
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Brewdog. The two lads from Scotland that have set the craft beer world alight. Started in April 2007 by two good friends James Watt and Martin Dickie, BrewDog is a British multinational brewery and pub chain based in Ellon, Scotland.

Brewdog LostStarting small to eventually becoming a bit of a sensation in the brewing world, with all sorts of high jinks and marketing bull. To their credit they have always tried to push the boat out with exciting and innovative styles, using a wide array of mad and exotic ingredients from chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, and mustard to name but a few.  And generally, they do tend to get the basics right……IE. their beers are actually quite bloody good, continuing to rake up a tonne of awards and prizes all over the globe.

Third time having a brew from those Scottish whippersnappers, having had their 5 A.M. Saint a while back which I found to be disappointingly very bland all things considering, but their Brewdog Punk IPA was simply FANTASTIC, easily making my top ten of all time….its tropical fruits really adding to the flavours and setting it apart from more regular IPA’s. Recommended. So lets see how the LP First lager gets on……….

Review: 440ml can of Brewdog Lost Planet First Lager: 4.5% vol.

In some places can gets cans with 4.7% volume, and there is also a non alcoholic version which amazingly only has 10 calories in it per 100ml, WOW!. 

Brewdog LostAs per usual one has to wade thought the usual PR and woke nonsense from Brewdog. From the can we get all this………“United we stand for better beer, fiercely defiant and independent”, 
“The worlds first carbon negative beer”, “brewed with surplus fresh bread”, “using 1/3 less water”, “powered by Brewdog wind turbines”, “plant trees, the lost forest in the Scottish highlands is an reforestation plan to help create a carbon clean planet” and this lovely gem….“by drinking this beer you are having a positive impact on the planet”. How about fuck off.

So basically the spiel is that its the ultimate ECO-Friendly beer…..windpower/recycling/less resources/ etc etc……..great, ha. And for the name Lost Lager, it is the return of what lagers should be like, long lost but now thanks to Brewdog, back again……clever eh? Meh!

On pour, getting a clear, light golden coloured brew with a very nice frothy white head that has good retention. Looks very good it has to be said. 5 out of 5 for the appearance.

Looks good, and also leaves some decent lacing behind. Nice.  

Light and faint smell, floral hops, but very, very faint. Not much at all on the nose, mild. 

Brewdog LostOnto the taste. A very light and smooth tasting lager taste, lovely and crisp on the tongue, very clean. Nothing too heavy or tinty, all clean and smooth. Hops on the low level and well balanced. 

A very good clean tasting lager that hits all the right notes. Lovely crispy mouthfuls. Yes top marks again to the Brewdog lads, nothing amazing but for a lager it does the job. 

Getting the malted barley, some earthy hops, and some fruit and citrus notes of apple and pear. Using both German saphir hops which give it its fruity kick, and German yeast giving its clean crisp, and lager taste. 

Very smooth, refreshing and a solid lager. Nothing that’s going to knock you out of your seat, but its simplicity that is the key here. Very drinkable. 

As usual and I have said it before, if they could cut out all the woke bull crap and just sell it as a normal top quality lager. I liked this beer a lot, not a huge array of flavours but its a simple lager and a very solid effort and it works. Will return again……

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Solothurner “Oufi” Rotbier

Solothurner “Oufi” Rotbier.

Solothurner “Oufi” Rotbier  

www.oeufi-bier.ch/bier/

Brewed by Öufi Brauerei
Style: Rotbier
Solothurn, Switzerland

A family run brewery from the small picturesque town of Solothurn in the north-west of Switzerland by the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains.

Solothurner “Oufi” RotbierÖufi brewery, named after the “Solothurner city number 11”,  was founded on the 11th of November, in 2000 by Alex Künzle, who had had enough of his job as a mineral water sales manager and decided to concentrate on his passion, brewing beer, setting up the Öufi brewery.

The number 11 is everywhere in Solothurn. There are 11 fountains, chapels, churches and a clock with a face showing only 11 hours. No wonder the local brewery also bears the evocative name “Öufi”. But why 11?  Well Solothurn’s history is closely tied to the ‘holy’ number 11. and all of the towns residents, both young and old, regard the number 11 as magical or even sacred.

The Öufi brewers are a real beer family. Alex Künzle’s sons, Florian and Moritz, are also, like their father, involved in the brewing process while mother Barbara takes care of all the administration with daughter Sophie; and graphic designer Louise, the youngest of the Künzle children, designs the labels for the Öufi beers.

The family must be doing something right as they offload about 40 beers a year, from Helles, Pilsners, Rotbiers, Weizen, to a large variety of season beers, using local water from Solothurn and the best natural ingredients at hand.

At their brewery they offer guided tours, beer tastings and even a two day course in brewing. if that is too much for you, you can always relax in their own onsite pub and restaurant! 

Review: 33cl bottle of Solothurner “Ouf”Rotbier: 5% vol.

Solothurner “Oufi” RotbierOn the bottle it says this is a “bio” beer, whatever that means? I think organically friendly? 

On pour getting a very nice and big frothy head, lot of carbonation making the beer lively. Very golden coloured amber looking beer.

Once it all settles down, it all looks very appetizing. Nice colour and good looking. 

Smell is one of pure lager on the nose

Also getting a bit of wheat

Not a bad aroma, lagery, but is OK

Found the taste to be pretty bland, not getting a whole lot on the old tastebuds at all.

Solothurner “Oufi” RotbierTastes of toffee detected at times.and I am getting the hops, and I guess you can feel that it is an organic beer, but overall this is a pretty poor effort at a lager me thinks.

Not much flavour, no kick, not getting anything at all really. Very light beer.

Not nice at all and considering I bought it from the source (Solothurn) that is pretty disappointing.

Maybe I got a bad batch, but I couldn’t get anything from the few bottles I bought…..not a zilch, nothing…..

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Warka Strong

Warka Strong 

https://www.grupazywiec.pl/marki/warka/

Brewed by Browary Warka (Grupa Żywiec – Heineken)
Style: Strong Euro Lager 
Warka, Poland

Warka Strong 

The Warka Brewery is one of Poland’s oldest breweries and belongs to the Żywiec Group. Żywiec Group itself is majority owned by the Dutch Heineken Group.

The brewery is in Warka, a small town in east-central Poland, a location with centuries-old brewing traditions. In 1478 Bolesław V, the Mazovian Prince, reserved to Warka the exclusive privilege to supply beer to his court.

The current plant was opened in 1975, under the Zakłady Piwowarskie w Warszawie (Warsaw Brewing Industries) and in 1999, Warka Brewery was purchased by Grupa Żywiec S.A. The brewery was modernized in 2004 and now has a production capacity between 200-350 million litres annually.

Review: 500ml bottle of Warka Strong Beer: 6.3% vol.

The ABV may also be 6.5% in some outlets. Comes in cans, bottles and on draught. 

Warka Strong On the bottle there is a very distinctive portrait of General Pułaski, a Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander, who was from Warka. He was driven into exile and ended up in North America to help in the American Revolutionary War where he distinguished himself throughout, most notably when he saved the life of George Washington. He has been called, together with his counterpart Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, “the father of the American cavalry.” as they created the Pulaski Cavalry Legion and reformed the American cavalry as a whole. A hero in both his native Poland, and in the USA. In any case, it looks pretty cool, and is a good look on the bottle.

On the pour I am getting a bloody good looking beer. In fact it looks magnificent, lovely sparkling amber colour with a decent sized head, which does die in time but the beer still keeps its inviting look. Not bad at all.

Smell is of the cheap lager variety, very faint, not a whole lot on the nose. Malted barley, caramel and yeast. 

Onto the taste……..initially I am liking it. Yes, its ok……as expected it is strong, and with a lot of sweet malts and grainy flavours……a little tough on the palate, but just about manageable.

Warka Strong Deep taste, and it does take a while to get the hang of it…….it is a strong Euro lager after all, not my most favourite type of beers…….but after enough of these, I eventually adapted to the kick and enjoyed this over time. 

Bit gassy and yeasty, but relatively,and I say relatively here, smooth considering its 6.5%. All a bit subtle. 

Taste is medium sweet to bitter, has a small kick in it but with a smooth finish. 

OK, passable, if you have enough of them!! I’d hazard to say this is one more for getting smashed than quality and sophistication. Decent.

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