25th June 2012

Friday was a double celebration for me. It was midsummer's day, which here in Finland is a huge thing, and it was also my birthday. Being one year older I should also be one year wiser, but with all this beer I've been drinking I might be stuck in reverse.

Malheur 10 (Belgium)

Thanks go to Jose for bringing this for me. When I poured it in to the glass I wasn't sure what this beer was. It looked and smelled like wheat beer, but thankfully didn't taste too much like it. Unless I've just become so accustomed to wheat beer that I've actually started to like it. What I do know about this beer is that it's very strong and actually very good. A quite typical Belgian effort, lots of flavour and plenty of alcohol.

Staropramen (Czech Republic)

This was my first beer to start the weekend of celebrations. I was looking forward to this because I really like Czech beer, and as you can see, my girlfriend Tiia was quite excited about it too. And with good reason. Although this beer doesn't taste so much different from some of the other Czech beers I've had so far, it's not a bad thing. So overall the weekend was a success... apart from the England-Italy game, but I won't go in to that.