Boxer Old
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Brewed by Brasserie du Boxer
Style: Pale Lager
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
A Boxer, the experts say, is a lively dog, playful and fun when young but a dog which mellows in its old age. They make great loyal companions in their old age, but they dont tend to live too long. All that romping around as a youngster you see, it all catches up with you in the end. (sure dont i know!). They are a mans dog, masculine, rugged and tough, looks imposing, farts and slobbers a lot. Not much grooming here, requires a strong hand as they can be stubborn little fuckers at times.
Well if you haven’t guessed by now, the company name and logo were inspired by the faithful pet boxer of brewery founder and first director Mr. A. Hauser, on April the 6th, 1960. The new business was to have the start qualities of honesty, loyalty, independence and resilience, traits that he found in his beloved dog, Aramis.
Based in Yverdon-les-Bains, the French speaking part of Switzerland, in the south west of the country. The brewery has many different types of beer on offer but most interesting is a Hemp flavoured beer, Boxer Hacienda, popular amongst students no doubt.
Review: 50cl. Can of Boxer Old: ABV: 5.2% vol
Got it in a can, could not pass by and had to buy it what with the very eye catching logo of a Boxer dog on the can. Logo really is cool, love it, it really stands out.
On pour get a nice clear light golden yellow beer, with a nice white frothy head.
Small carbonation. Head maintains, some slight lacing, not a bad looking beer.
The aroma is faint but a piercing sweet grainy smell nonetheless, and of malts, the yeast and the hops. A typical lager smell.
On taste I get a slight creamy taste. Bit malty. Nice big mouthfuls. Grainy. All that in the initial taste!
Is a very tasty beer, a very smooth drinking beer, I like it. A lot in it to saviour.
A little bit hoppy but not overpowering, nicely balanced and pleasant.
A lovely beer to saviour, and very refreshing on the taste buds.
Very malty as well.
Recommended. A good lager, simple and hits the spot.
I have had it served cool from a bottle at a bar and also found it quite refreshing, so I would definitely recommend this beer as a good lager to enjoy the night.
Hacker was founded way, way back in 1417, and the Pschorr bit comes from when Joseph Pschorr, in the late 18th century, bought the Hacker brewery from his father-in-law, Peter-Paul Hacker. He subsequently founded a separate brewery called Pschorr, who would have guessed, eh? His two sons, Georg Pschorr and Matthias Pschorr Sr., divided his estate by each taking control of one of the two separate breweries. 
In Munich in 1810, the Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, decided he wanted the whole of Bavaria to join him in celebrating his wedding. He commissioned a collection of the top Munich brewers, including Josef Pschorr, then the brewmaster of the Hacker-Pschorr brewery, to develop special brews to commemorate this special occasion. Overtime this occasion has evolved into the world city of Munich’s Oktoberfest, which is attended by over six million people each year. By Munich law, only the six breweries within the city limits of Munich are invited to serve their beer at Oktoberfest. Hacker-Pschorr is one of the six and today’s event is held on land donated by Josef Pschorr, further highlighting the special relationship this brewery has with the city. 
On taste, got some really lovely mouthfuls, a very good start, very refreshing. Beery and lagery but in a nice way, sweet with some fruits and not too off putting.
The year 1874 was also the year that Kozel was produced. Kozel, which means “goat” in Czech, is well presented in the stunning and very unique logo, which is of a big brown goat enjoying a pint of Kozel, almost with a cunning smile on his face! Apparently the eye catching logo was created by a wandering French painter who was so enamored by the hospitality that he received in Velke Popovice that he designed the special emblem as an expression of his gratitude.
The beer is popular, especially in Eastern Europe, in Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine. Recently it has entered new markets in Scandinavia, the UK, North America, Israel, Greece and Turkey. All this production and export has made Kozel become the best-selling Czech beer brand in the world.
Had a very light beery smell, yeasty with lots of malts, but overall it was quite a faint smell. 
The brewery Fischerstube was opened in 1974 as an act of defiance, a protest against the cartel of the large local breweries and their protectionism racket. Hans Jakob Nidecker was not allowed to sell a particular beer he wanted, a local Warteck beer brewed almost around the corner. Instead he was told to sell Anker beer, a beer outside the city. 
Today, the brewery sells a wide variety of beers and also does a good trade in seasonal and iconic brews. They have taken on some interesting brews with an eye on what is happening in the local area. When the Basel Antiquity Museum had a Tutankhamun exhibition in 2004, this inspired the brewery to bring out The Tut-Anch-Ueli, brewed according to an ancient Egyptian recipe of barley malt, emmer, hops and dates and found ripping heel. They did likewise when Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso had exhibitions in the local art gallery. For Van Gogh they actually had a sunflower flavoured beer in their Van Ueli beer, while for Ueli Beer Pablo they brewed a powerful beer with Absinthe, as “Powerful as a work by Picasso”. And for the annual Basel carnival, they have their own specially themed Bock beer, and they also produce a Christmas beer in the run upto to the end of year festivities. In total, more than 50 such specialty beers have been brewed, each available for a specific occasion or seasonally, there really is no occasion without a Ueli beer at hand!
On pour nice get a frothy head, with a lovely looking light yellow coloured beer, looks good.
Falken is an independent brewery in Schaffhausen, a Swiss town on the upper Rhine River, near the border with Germany. It has been in existence since 1799 and is Switzerland’s fifth biggest brewery, selling drinks of all kinds mostly in the areas of Schaffhausen, Thurgau and Zurich.
Head maintains and there is also some nice lacing.