Ever since I was asked why there are never any lager festivals I have thought that there should be.   Maybe the wrong crowd might show up & then turn nasty when all the beer turned ou

This weekend saw the Eurovision Song Contest on the telly.   So what's that got to do with beer?   Well, I got a beer each from loads of different European countries and had a t

Which country brews the best beer?   Since October 2006 I have kept a diary of every bottle of beer I've drunk on a spreadsheet and scored them out of five.   There are a total

Before the World Cup was assigned to Germanyⁱ, Anheuser Busch bought the rights to supply the official beer. This means the American Budweiser being the only beer allowed to be sold in stadiums.

This is the bitterest pilsner I've tasted.   A grassy bitterness and a very dry beer.

Germanyⁱ's best selling pilsner style lager.   This is a good example of a German pils - clean tasting with good bitterness.

A superbly aromatic pilsner style beer.   The name comes from the pine cones in the Black Forest and the resinous, grassiness in the aroma evokes this picture in your head easily. &n

A huge selling beer in Germanyⁱ, this pilsner is extremely pale with a very soft, delicate maltiness and very little hop bitterness.

German beer is dominated by pale pilsner style lagers brewed to the ancient standard of the Rheinheitsgebot and are held in high regard the world over generally.   The excellent German Be

This ancient standard for beer ingredients has both ensured the quality of German beers and arguably stifled innovation, leading to a small range of beer styles available.   Under the sta

Kolsch is brewed almost exclusively in Cologneⁱ (Koln to the Germans) in Germanyⁱ.   It is basically a lager brewed with top fermenting yeast like an ale, but treated in all other respects