Excelsior Lager
Brewed by Champigneulles (TCB Beverages)
Style: Pale Lager
Meurthe-et-Moselle France
Not much info on this beer online, needless to say that’s the way they like it in cheap discount beer land, just buy the fucker and dont worry about it.
Brewed for the supermarket chain Lidl, and sold at a relatively cheap price. This is bargain basement beer!
Yet the name “Excelsior“ is Latin for “ever upward” and represents superior quality and of excellence!
Review: 500ml blue can of Excelsior Lager: 4.0% vol.
Can find it with 4.1% to 3.9 % in strength, depending on the region.
Coming in a pretty cool looking logo of a Knight’s sword, in a nice blue can.
Aroma is pretty shit, in fact it smells a bit like shit, had the aroma of a fart! Lagery smell, and very metallic on the nose. Not great!
Looks good on pour, a nice frothy white head, nice and creamy, and a golden coloured beer on show. Not bad. Head maintains well, and some good lacing apparent.
Get a lot in the can.
Bit of an off taste found initially, not great at all……….
Overall, it is a bit tasteless, and any taste you do get is bittersweet and lacking in flavouring.
Second can, it improved a little, and was slightly easier to drink, a bit smoother and nicer on the old stomach, but still lacking any real depth to the beer. Malty and a little hoppy, but overall not a nice beer at all. Very forgetful and not worth trying again, cheap as it is and all………..
Founded in 2010 in Kill, a small town in Kildare. Trouble Brewing have introduced some new and exciting craft brews into the Irish market and beyond. 
Can be found on tap at certain selected places around the country but I got it in the bottle from Lidl, the German supermarket discount chain. 
Has all the typical IPA style characteristics checked and mastered. Citrus and tropical fruits, caramel and sweet malts all easy to find.
He set up the company Alltech in his garage in 1980 while living in Kentucky for work purposes. Lyons used his fermentation expertise to helping brewers. He then moved into agri business, more particularly, animal feed and animal nutrition. Overtime Alltech has become one of the fastest growing companies in the global animal health industry, continually making a tidy profit year in year out, and with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion. Not bad for the fella who got a 10,000 Dollar loan to start off in his garage!
With three new breweries under construction in the United States, and a major investment in a new distillery, called Pearse Lyons Distillery in the heart of the Dublin, at the former St James Church where his grandfather is buried, Lyons was set to continue the family history. They also opened a new brewery at the historic site of the old MacArdle Moore Brewery in Dundalk, which will also incorporate the relocation of the Station Works Brewery in Newry, acquired by the company in 2015. 
A real IPA type aroma, very nice, spot on with the smell. Getting the citrus, and other fruits and the malts, lovely. 
Mad as it is, this area at the beginning of the 20th Century, was France’s leading region for brewing beers with no fewer than 230 breweries, mostly small enterprises. It might be due to the lovely fresh waters and rivers emanating down from the hills and valleys in the area.
Hop’s Cure was brewed to celebrate the 1000th brew of the Ardwen brewery, a landmark moment that the brewery should be well proud of. Called Hop’s Cure as the beverage gave strength and courage to those who drank them, a remedy to cowardice, needed in the dark forests of the Ardennes, what with all those bloody crazy wild boars running around the place!
Eventually settles down, looks much better once calmness kicks in.
Lervig Aktiebryggeri, in the city of Stavanger, southern Norway, was founded in 2003 by Kristoffer Stensrud.
On pour get a massive white head with a lot of carbonation, fizzing away like mad, a lively beer from the start!
Tastes like your average IPA, strong in the hops and in the taste. A long gentle bitter finish with this one. This beer has three hops, the citrus flavouring Citra hops, the Chinook hops tasting of grapefruits, and the fruity Amarillo hops, and boy does it show as all three are easily found on the taste buds.