Beer Maven

Tatra (Poland) 5.5% Pale gold in a glass with a fast fading head. The aroma is honey with an ever so slightly burnt, nearly acrid touch ...

Bia IPA - Birrificio Del Ducato (Italy) 6.5% Full gold in a glass with a slight haze. The head faded fairly quickly leaving minimal lacing...

Euro Life Lager - Big Rock (Canada - Alberta - Calgary) 5.0% Crisp dry hops aroma, pale gold and crystal clear in a glass. A touch of the ...

Martens Pilsener (Belgium) 5.0% Gold in a glass with a surprisingly large frothy head of foam. Malty taste but sweetly thick with a touch ...

Stonewell Light - Cool Brewery (Canada - Ontario - Toronto) 4.0% Pale gold in a glass with a big white head of foam that fades quickly. A...

Kostritzen Schwarzbier (Germany) 4.8% A dry hoppy aroma with a bit of sweetness and a darker malt roast tone that dances between molasses...

Guinness Black Lager (Ireland) 4.5% True to its name it is indeed black, just about opaque too with a head that is just a shade paler than...

Lezajsk (Poland) 5.5% Gold in a glass with some lacing as well as a frothy head that fades quickly though not as quickly as some lagers. ...

Corona Extra (Mexico) 4.0% Lightly malty taste and aroma with some dry hops. Corona is actually much like a pilsner in that respect despit...

Being the truly universal beer, lagers are produced in just about every country of the world. In this final part of my five part Euro Lager ...

While hardly representative of Belgian beers, Stella Artois is a large part of Belgium's export market. It is included here with a trio ...

Regular readers will know that my blog really got going during half of a year I spent in Norway ( Norwegian Yule Beers ). Here are a few o...

Germany is known for the Bavarian Purity Law (one of the older trade barriers) and its lagers (the word lager means 'storehouse' in ...