24th June 2013

It seems ages since I last wrote here. Since then there's been some occurances, namely the midsummer festival, which is a pretty big deal here in Finland, and it was also my 30th birthday. I know, I do look good for my age, thanks.

Also, apparently there had been a miscount. Last week I had counted that I had drank 166 beers so far, but thanks to Facebook buggering up my list, I had to recount them, and it turns out I'd drank 167. So this week you only get one beer, because I have an OCD about even numbers.

Xingu Black Beer (Brazil)

And so, from the land of weird pubic hair comes the beer that looks like the official beer of the TV show, Survivor. Since you only get one this week, I thought I'd make it a special one. I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but it seems like it might be related to a certain plasticine penguin. And it's actually very good. Really dark, but without any coffee-ish bitterness, it was almost fruity and a little bit oaty. My first ever Brazilian beer was a very pleasant surprise.

10th June 2013

The last couple of weeks have been filled with planning for our summer holiday, which will include a visit to Prague, where I hope to find plenty of beer from my book. So excpect a special Czech edition of the blog in a few weeks.

Krušovice Černé (Czech Republic)

Surpringly popular in Finland, considering I'd never heard of it before I got this book. It's a strange beer which caught me offguard because I wasn't expecting this. It tastes like a slightly smokey, slightly wheaty dark beer. So it's a bit hard to give a review, because I just don't know what to make of it.

Adnams Bitter (England)

Bitter is a good old-fashioned English type of beer, usually drunk by old-fashioned English people in old-fashioned English pubs. But it has to be said that it has stood the test of time pretty well. Despite the name, it's not actually that bitter, no more than a pale ale, but it's a tribute to Adnams that they produce a beer that can stand up to all the pale ales flooding in from all over the globe. This just goes to show how good bitter can be.