Super Bock

http://www.superbock.pt/
Brewed by Unicer Bebidas
Style: Pale Lager
Balio, Portugal

Super Bock is a Portuguese brand of strong pale lager (“bock”) from the Unicer brewery. Established in 1927, Unicer is based in Leça do Balio, just outside the city of Porto, Portugal. Super Bock is the most popular beer in Portugal with 42% share of the national market.

It is produced from selected high-quality ingredients, which give it its characteristic golden colour, authentic flavour, consistent froth and body, with an alcohol content of 5.6%,

SUPER BOCK Original is recognized internationally for its high quality and is the only brand to have won 28 gold medals at the prestigious “Monde Selection de la Qualite”.

The beer achieved cult status among football supporters during the UEFA Euro 2004 championship in Portugal, as it was a popular beer to accompany the football.

Review: Can of SuperBock Pale Lager 5.2%ABV

SuperBock, the football special. I can see why it is popular on the terraces, as it looks damn good, is relatively strong and goes down well. Its also quite cheap, which always appeals. Its a player alright.

This beer pours a crystal clear golden colour with a huge white head on top, which was very frothy. It is quick to settle, with little lacing.

The aroma is faint and gentle, some grains, malts and some light hints of grassy hops.

Not a bad taste, a mildly sweet refreshing lager that hits the throat lovely and there is a nice bitter and sour aftertaste that lingers for a short while. It’s a very easy beer to drink.

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Quilmes Export Beer

http://www.quilmes.com.ar/

Brewed by Cerveceria Malteria Quilmes SAICAY (InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

South America’s most popular beer Quilmes Export Beer is brewed in Buenos Aires and is the sponsor of Argentina’s National Football team!

Cervecería y maltería Quilmes is an Argentine Brewery founded in 1888 in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, by German immigrant Otto Bemberg.
The company quickly started growing and in the 1920s it was already the most popular beer in Buenos Aires. Since then, it has become something of an Argentine cultural symbol, accounting for around 75% of all beer sales in Argentina. It sponsors the Argentina national football team, and the colours of its labels are Argentina’s light blue and white.

Quilmes is a 4.9% classic lager style beer with a very distinguishable taste: golden colour, rich texture, refreshing light hoppy taste with a crisp, dry thirst quenching finish.

Quilmes has a 46% share of its home market and this Argentinian icon is enjoying an international reputation with export growth in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Review: Bottle of Quilmes Pale Lager, 4.9%ABV

Quilmes, which comes in a lovely bottle, is another first timer for me, beer from Argentina. Would have noticed this beer name from football as it has sponsored both the great Boca Juniors and the Argentine National Football Team. Now that’s serious branding in football!

Quilmes has a nice crystal clear yellow colour with a thin head and little lacing.

Aroma was of a sweet malty smell with some grain in the background. Very sweet.

Taste for me was interesting as I found it hard to figure it out at the start. There’s a little corn and grain sweetness to open it up, a kind of sickly sweet. It does eventually settle down into a nice decent drink and does the job in quenching the thirst. There is a bitter aftertaste which grows on you. It certainly is a very drinkable beer, light and good for a session.

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Kronenbourg 1664

http://kronenbourg1664.com/

Brewed by Kronenbourg (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Obernai, France

Kronenbourg 1664 is the most popular French beer in the world. It was named after the year the founders of Brasseries Kronenbourg, first started commercial brewing. Kronenbourg is the fifth oldest beer brand in the world that still exists today.

Kronenbourg Brewery (Brasseries Kronenbourg) is a brewery founded in 1664 by Geronimus Hatt in Strasbourg (at the time a City of the Holy Roman Empire; now France). The name comes from the area where the brewery relocated in 1850.

Kronenbourg 1664, the company’s main brand, is a 5.5% pale lager first brewed in 1952.

Review: Can of Kronenbourg Pale Lager, 5.5%ABV

Kronenbourg 1664 is France’s No.1 selling beer, and a nice refreshing beer with a lot of interesting flavours.

The appearance is a lovely clear amber colour, with a nice frothy white head. The appearance has the wow factor, it looks really like a beer you definitely want to drink.

The smell is not strong but you can get both a nice faint sweetness and a fruity aroma off the beer.

Taste has a mixture of different flavours from fruit, sweet caramel malts, honey, to a sweet malt taste at the start followed up with a mild hop bitterness. All in all a nice crafted beer and quite an enjoyable drinking experience mainly due, in my opinion, to the complexity of the flavours. Truly a well balanced beer.

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Feldschlösschen

http://www.feldschloesschen.com

Feldschlösschen Stark

Brewed by Feldschlösschen (Carlsberg)
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Rheinfelden, Switzerland

Feldschlösschen Original

Brewed by Feldschlösschen (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Rheinfelden, Switzerland

Feldschlösschen is the best known beer brand in Switzerland.

It has been brewed at the Feldschlösschen brewery in Rheinfelden, the biggest brewery in Switzerland, since its foundation in 1876 and has been the leading Swiss beer brand for more than 100 years. Today its by far the leading brand in the country with 45 per cent of the beer market.

The brewery logo is in the shape of a castle and Feldschlösschen means ‘small castle in the fields’ in German.

Review: Bottle of Feldschlösschen Original Pale Lager, 4.80%ABV

One doesn’t generally associate beer with the Swiss, chocolate and cooking clocks yes, but good beer? Feldschlösschen is a beer that can take on the big guns of Germany, Britain and the rest in Europe and hold its head up high. It’s a bloody good beer, with a nice taste and easy to drink.

Loved the appearance of a pure clear yellow colour, bright and clean with a good big frothy head on top that stays with some lacing. Looks refreshing and tantalisingly good, saying “drink me, please!”. Yeah that’s a cheesy line, Swiss style! A decent beer though.

The aroma is light and malty, on the grainy side but with a little sweetness.

Taste: What a light lager should be like; a nice crisp and smooth refreshing drink. Grain dominates the taste with very little bitterness. Not complex, well balanced, and very easy to drink. Could drink these all day long, perfect for a light session with friends.

Review: Can of Feldschlösschen Stark Strong Pale Lager 7%ABV

Can comes in a very shiny greyish colour that also highlights that this lager is 7% ABV. in case you were in any doubt.

Pours a clear dark golden colour with a fair white head that settles quick, no real lacing shown.

A faint aroma of malt, bread, and mild sweetness.

The taste is the strong point of this beer. Very sweet, very smooth, very drinkable at 7% it is a strong lager and tastes like it too. The flavour is malt, bread and a mild hoppy bitterness which lingers well. This is a beer that is good for a session. Strong, goes down well and does the job.

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