Kühles Blondes
http://www.ottakringerbrauerei.at/de/home/
Brewed by Ottakringer Brauerei AG
Style: Pale Lager
Wien, Austria
The Ottakringer brewery is a large brewery based in the Ottakring District, Vienna, Austria.
Founded in 1837 by Heinrich Plank originally under the name the Plank brewery. It wasn’t until the 1850’s when two cousins took over, Ignaz and Jakob Kuffner, that the operation really began to expand . The two built the small plant into a large brewery. In no time the brewery became successful.
But bad news arrived in the form of the World War and the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. Moriz von Kuffner, Ignaz’s son, was forced to sell his business because of his Jewish background. It was sold for a rather low price of 14 million Austrian schillings (about 36 million Euros at today’s values) to Gustav Harmer, who was also forced out of the business for two years after the war. After the liberation by the Allies, the brewery was temporarily managed by the Russians, before the Harmer family managed to legally prove their purchase. The heirs of Moriz von Kuffner, were also compensated for their loss.
In 1986, the Ottakringer Brewery was listed on the stock exchange, and presently the parent company, Getränkeindustrie Holding AG, owns 70.31% of Ottakringer Brauerei AG.
Today the brewery is still going strong, and are a major sponsor of the Austrian football team SK Rapid Wien for many years now.
Review: 0.51 cl Can of Kühles Blondes: ABV: 5%
Bought cheap in Aldi. Comes in a striking yellow can, which has some interesting lettering, looks like it could be a fruit drink.
The appearance is one of a very clear, golden yellow colour, bubbling away with some pretty good carbonation. Produced a nice big frothy head, which did die a bit but overall maintains throughout. Had some very light lacing. Altogether, not a bad looking beer.
The aroma is of a nice light beery smell, getting the yeast. Also getting a faint smell of citrus and malts.
For the taste I got very nice mouthfuls, of light grains and sweet malts.
Smooth and clean to drink and pleasant enough. Very smooth in fact, I found it very nice and easy to quaff.
But I didn’t find any discernible or interesting tastes though, and couldn’t find the alcohol.
Clean malts for sure, but no hops noticeable in the taste.
Nice for a session, as they go down well, but very light, low bitterness, and no real bite to it.
The brewery was founded in 1982 by Pierre Gobron and Christian Bauweraerts, two brothers-in-law, as a hobby. In September 2006, the brewery was bought by the brewery group Duvel Moortgat, this move helping the small brewery to enlarge and also to export to new destinations. 
Also found the fresh coriander on the nose.
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To further feck things up big nasty Heineken took over Alken-Maes in 2008. As part of the takeover the brand name Grimbergen was transferred to the Carlsberg Group, but Heineken was given a long-term license to use the brand name in Belgium. As a result of this messing around, Alken-Maes brews the beer for the Belgian market, while Carlsberg is responsible for the marketing outside Belgium of the beers that it brews under the Grimbergen name at its Kronenbourg Brewery located in France. So in essence you can find two Grimbergens, just depending on which side of the border you are. I am not sure if they taste similar or not, but I’d wager they do.
The appearance was of a clear golden colour with a big frothy white head.
Fantastic tasting beer with a lot of nice flavours. Very creamy. Very crisp and refreshing mouthfuls
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All this has made the brand a runaway success, easily becoming Germany’s go to beer for getting pissed on the cheap. It is also exported as far away as Australia and closer to home in Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. 
Has a good beery smell, a bit faint but good all the same, yeasty, grainy….
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Taste is not too bad, some very nice mouthfuls. Malts mostly. And that’s as much as you are going to taste really.
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So lets try this “true classic of Bavarian wheat beer culture”, as stated on their own website!
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On pour I get a golden yellow looking appearance with some nice lively carbonation going on, bubbling along. A nice foamy white head, looks good, but does go flat after a short while…..eventually. 
Very sweet taste, not very appealing to me at all, don’t like it to be honest 
A definite slow burner 
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Got a strong initial taste hitting the senses, the spices I guess.
Beck’s striking logo, is a silver key on a red shield, and is the mirror image of the coat of arms of Bremen. 
On pour get a very clear, very, very clear, light golden yellow appearance, with some nice carbonation, bubbling away. Has a decent sized frothy white head that looks good, but does reduce in size but maintains overall.
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On the nose I got a really lovely smell, a very distinctive sweet red berry like aroma which was quite nice I have to say. Very sweet, very clear and strong fruity aroma and very distinctive. had the wow factor on the nose.