Sol Cerveza
Brewed by Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Brewery (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Monterrey/Orizaba, Mexico
Cerveza Sol is a lager from the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery in Mexico city, which is a mouthful to say! A popular brew, particularly liked on a hot summer’s day, sold in over 50 countries worldwide.
Founded in 1899 inside a small brewery near Mexico City called “El Salto del Agua”, a German brewmaster observed a sunbeam falling on the cooking pot; this natural phenomenon caught his attention, and in honor of that experience, he christened his new beer as “The Sun” (“Sol”). The beer soon became popular amongst the hard working ordinary people of the city who liked a beer or two after a hard days work.
In 1912, Cervecería Moctezuma acquired El Salto del Agua, and with it came the expansion of Cerveza Sol all around Mexico, but it wasn’t until the 1980’s that the brand started to get international significance with mass advertising in the UK, Germany and the USA. In 2010 the brand was acquired by Heineken International.
Sol has a habit of sponsoring football, at one stage it sponsored 15 teams in Mexico, under the slogan “football unites us”. They also sponsored the national team of Mexico. Well that’s one way to get people to drink your beer, as we all know how much football heads like to drink cheap alcohol!
Other products they make are Cerveza Sol Clamato, a red coloured shandy and Cerveza Sol Sal y Limón, a 4.5% vol lemon beer.
Review: 33cl clear bottle of Sol: 4.5% vol.
Coming in a light long necked bottle with the iconic sun logo of Sol, eye catching. This is a summer drink no doubt about it! Looks similar to Corona in its presentation and style, I thought it was when I initially looked at it! Can get it in cans too, but not sure for tap.
It is a beach time beer anyhow, Acapulco style, dont know how it will work though in the Northern European wet and cold harsh climate, but let’s see………
Through the bottle it looks a light yellow, but on pour we do get a nice sparkling golden colour with a very frothy creamy white head, a nice good bit of carbonation fizzing away. Some lacing present as well.
Looks ok, like a regular light lager would. Head maintains well. Surprisingly good on the eye.
A light lagery aroma which isn’t too bad on the nose getting the corn, and the grains. Ok.
On the taste it is very, very light, initially getting a creamy flavour, bit dry in the mouth as well.
Slight aftertaste of corn syrup which is not enjoyable.
This is a very light lager, but it has a dryness and a bit of a metallic feel to it that lets it down.
Overall it is not nice, and not as smooth as it should be.
Bit of an underlay taste and a harsh citric bitterness that’s annoying. A pass for me. A nothing beer.
The brewing giant from The Netherlands, Heineken have always had a helping hand in the creation of this iconic brand. They came up with the idea of a brewery this side of the world, but were initially thinking of Indonesia, as the nation was a Dutch colony, but were denied. Singapore was then chosen. Together with Fraser and Neave (F&N), Heineken launched Malayan Breweries in 1931, and a year later we got Tiger Beer. Today, Heineken owns 42% of the shares of Asia Pacific Breweries.
Can find it as 5% vol. in other regions of the world. Comes in a bottle, can or from the tap. Popular in Asia especially as it is the perfect beer to have as the sun goes down.
Tasted like a regular lager, no real complaints there. Perhaps a little creamy off taste but generally it was ok. Getting the malts and grains, and the fruits, with the hops on the low level.
Not much info on this beer online, needless to say that’s the way they like it in cheap discount beer land, just buy the fucker and dont worry about it. 
Aroma is pretty shit, in fact it smells a bit like shit, had the aroma of a fart! Lagery smell, and very metallic on the nose. Not great!
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On pour get a massive white head with a lot of carbonation, fizzing away like mad, a lively beer from the start!
Tastes like your average IPA, strong in the hops and in the taste. A long gentle bitter finish with this one. This beer has three hops, the citrus flavouring Citra hops, the Chinook hops tasting of grapefruits, and the fruity Amarillo hops, and boy does it show as all three are easily found on the taste buds. 
Founded in 2002, by Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun, Nøgne Ø is a Norwegian beer that has been kicking ass for a while now on the various online beer review sites.
This award winning beer, first brewed in 2010, had its recipe made up by an airline captain and part time homebrewer Jan Halvor Fjeld. Nøgne Ø’s head brewer at that time was also a pilot, hence the name, Two Captains! 
All a bit “urgh” to me, finding those hops are just impossible to enjoy, going down very slowly and with great difficulty. Too strong and bitter to truly appreciate or enjoy. One for the hardcore IPA heads to like, but not for me. And to be fair to them they do warn on their website that this isn’t for the faint hearted..
Windhoek Lager is a beer brewed by the Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL), a Namibian brewery founded in 1920. Namibia is a country in southwest Africa of about 2.5 million people, in case you were curious, where the famous sprinter Frankie Fredericks was from, remember him? Windhoek is the country’s capital and the name given to the lager. 
Before its independence in 1990, the area was known first as German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika), then as South-West Africa, reflecting the colonial occupation by the Germans and the South Africans. That perhaps might explain why they have some colonial throwback to brewing German style beers in accordance with the old Reinheitsgebot, also known as the “German Beer Purity Law”. As a reminder, the law prohibits the use of any flavourings, preservatives, or colourants during the brewing process and allows only three traditional, natural ingredients: malted barley, hops, and water. Following the rules means a slower more nuanced quality produced brew as opposed to a mass produced beer doled out quickly in a matter of days by speeding up the process with additives and inferior ingredients.
Overall it is a solid look. Ok
Founded in 1876, by James Speight, Charles Greenslade, and William Dawson on the South Island of New Zealand in the city of Dunedin. The Speight’s Brewery brew Speight’s Gold Medal Ale, a bit of a New Zealand institution. Popular amongst the working man and Scarfies (A Kiwi university student) for generations, offering up a unique taste of NZ beer.
They call this beer “The Taste of New Zealand”, ok well lets see. It is my first beer from the home of the Kiwi and the All Black. 
An interesting aroma, a kind of perfumy note on the nose, all nice and fruity. The smell is very nice. Also a bit like a stout aroma, with caramels and very toasty. Quite distinctive. 
Canada is a country that you would expect to find decent beers. A land of vast wilderness, miles upon miles of freshwater lakes and fields that are ripe for the growing of barley, no doubt this is a place where good beer demands to be made.
My version was 4%, but in normal countries the ABV is 5%.
Not getting a lot of taste or flavouring from the beer, all a bit like a tonic water, so, so very light. 
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Bottle from Lidl France. Interesting logo of two people kissing, striking. Was a little bit pricey, considering its in Lidl, 3 Euros plus for the bottle, albeit a big bottle of beer. 
It is a very nice aroma though, flowery and unusual but nice. Bit of an aphrodisiac, felt a bit horny after it!! LOL
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. 
Lidl France, and for the big bottle all less than two Euros!
A tough one to drink, very strong in the hop taste, very, very bitter and tastes all a bit raw and rough, a bit too earthy.