Pils Hellas
Brewed by Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti – EZA
Style: Pale Lager
Kyparissi, Atalanti, Fthiotis, Greece
Pils Hellas, brewed by Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti, is an “authentic Greek beer” dating back to 1996. Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti is also commonly known as EZA!
Review: 0,5l can of Pils Hellas: 4.5% vol.
Another Greek beer I had on my holidays in Corfu.
As it says on the can, this original product of Greece, has a “tradition since 1996”. To be honest that is not much of a long tradition, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
The colour is a nice golden yellow, and we get a nice small frothy white head but it does die a death.
A good bit of carbonation bubbling along but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good as the beer has a general flat appearance in total.
A faint light malty, grainy and lagery smell on the nose, but overall its pretty odourless.
The taste is not bad, first impressions are all good. A light tasting lager, with a slight creamy taste on the tongue. Not a huge amount of stand out tastes or flavours but it is doing the job of keeping me happy, going down easy enough, all smooth.
Get the barley malt, and lots of it! A bit watery at times too but not enough to be annoying, cant imagine if it was served warm, luckily mine was in the fridge and came out all cool.
On the company’s website they mention that the beer “has an intense hop flavour”, that’s quite funny, I couldn’t detect that.
An inoffensive beer, soft and light bodied and smooth enough. Overall, overloaded with nice sweet malts.
Finally, it is ok, does the business, But nothing to shout home about, a holiday beer.
“Brasserie du Dzô” is a contraction of the word “Dzojè”, which means Joseph in the Fribourg dialect, a nickname given to the local residents. 
Coming in a small lovely shaped bottle, with an interesting logo of the brewery, a lamb, in black and white with a fork like weapon! Apparently its based on the old family coat of arms. It is pretty cool though. 
Bit of a shock initially, a bit of a “eh, what!”. Very hoppy at the start, took a while to get used to that strong taste.
It was in 1845 when it all started, a German living in Romania at the time, Johan Zweck opened a brewery. During this period it took the name of “Zimbru”.
On pour I get a golden colour with a very disappointing small white head, that goes flat very, very quick. Doesn’t look great at all, not a whole lot to see or admire.
Their Appenzell Beer (
Bought this beer from the local Coop supermarket here in Basel, bought it in a six pack in a nice black packaged box. The bottle itself had a smart logo with the majestic looking Swiss Alps looking all nice and shiny. 
No carbonation and also not a lot in the bottle, I wonder where it all went to!
Lucerne is in central Switzerland, and its star attraction is its massive lake, a total area of 114 km² (44 sq miles). It is very scenic with many bends and turns and one can always see the Alps far off in the distance, most of the time with snow covered peaks. Taking a cruise is the way to go, and at peak tourist time they are regular enough, and stop at various points along the lake. Or, if you prefer, you can do some laps of the lake without getting on a passenger boat at all as there are scenic walks all around the lake.
On the bottle you get a nice big UR logo, interesting and striking, it stands out. 
The initial taste was fantastic, very crispy soothing start, very good.