Eichhof Lager
Brewed by Brauerei Eichhof
Style: Helles Lager
Luzern, Switzerland
The Eichhof brewery is a brewery located in the picturesque city of Lucerne, in the heart of Switzerland, and on the go for more than 180 years. The beer is everywhere, appearing all over the small country, you cant go far without seeing its name light up some bar sign or on street hoarding.
Today the Eichhof brewery produces eleven different beers, using the same old recipes from that were passed down over decades, and apparently the brewery even uses fresh spring water directly from the amazing mountain peaks of Mount Pilatus.
Since 2008, Heineken have taken over the Brewery despite 15,500 people signing a note of protest against the sale, alas another independent brewery bites the dust….
Review: 50 cl Bottle of Eichhof Lager: ABV: 4.8%
On pour we get a very clear, lovely, yellow looking beer, with some nice carbonation, bubbling along, and a nice white head produced. Definitely looks the part, nice colour and a nice head, some lacing apparent.
Looks good. Nice colour, nice head, some lacing, thumbs up on the appearance.
Has a nice smell, but faint though, which is a little malty and of sweet grains.
A little bit of lemon piercing through as well.
On the taste, well no taste! Or at least nothing I could find.
It is extremely smooth, of light body and easy to drink, that would be the pure Swiss waters I am sure, but I am not picking up any tastes or flavours at all, nothing that stands out.
Very smooth, and I guess it would be a good beer to drink in a session,
I do like it however, its like a tonic water, or an extra strength water, with some light, very light malts
Still no taste on the second one, again very smooth,
Overall it is nice enough to drink but no taste. Good beer to down a few, very sessionable and smooth with a crisp clean finish….
August 28, 1865, saw the birth of the Ganter brewery when the 24 year old Ludwig Ganter founded his micro brewery in the centre of Freiburg.
Coming in a cool swing/flip top bottle with an interesting label, the beer apparently uses the same recipes that go way back to the founder Louis Ganter. 
On the taste….well it is very tasty that’s for sure, very hoppy as well.
Red stripe original, brewed in Jamaica and not the Jamaican STYLE lager that Americans get, from Latrobe, Pennsylvania!
For the rest of us, Desnoes & Geddes still make Red Stripe for Jamaica, Brazil, Canada and Europe, and in 2015 it became a subsidiary of Heineken.
A nice head that maintains, and some nice lacing.
The brewery now boasts over 8,500 proud shareholders and the beer continues to grow in popularity. But they dont issue dividends. The reward for investing in the company is beer, and lots of it, shared out at the general assembly where over a 1000 people celebrate the success of the company by drinking, partying and a little bit of boardroom management. 
Fantastic looking bottles, pretty ladies always catching the eye.
On taste
With millions of people travelling from the old continent of Europe to America hoping to find a better life they also brought with them their beers and tastes for the good stuff. Budweiser Budvar began exporting to the United States in 1871, but in the U.S. itself, C.Conrad (Anheuser-Busch) started using a Budweiser trademark and registered his version of Budweiser with the American Patent Office in 1878. Obviously this set up all sorts of legal disputes and rows over the naming of both beers, that has gone on for centuries, but some sort of compromise was reached when it was decided that the American Anheuser-Busch could use the brand “Budweiser” only in North America, while elsewhere the Czech Budweiser Budvar could use their name as a trademark. Also, Czech Budweiser is sold in North America under the label Czechvar and American Budweiser is labelled as Bud in all European Union markets, except for Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 1994 The European Commission granted Budweiser Budvar N.C. with the right to use a Protected Geographical Indication status “Budějovické pivo” and “Českobudějovické pivo”. This decision became effective on the 1st of May, 2004, and further strengthened the rights of the original Budweiser brand in their their effort to stave off, what must be said, some aggressive American opportunism. 
The iconic beer, the original, totally different to that American namesake, coming in a large 0.51CL bottle.
There is a lot of carbonation and I do wonder if the green bottles have something to do with the overall taste, as it tastes ok but a little skunky, and considering its reputation it is nothing amazing.
Saigon Export beer is the only authentic Vietnamese beer brewed in Vietnam and sold in the UK and in the US. Brewed by Vietnam’s Saigon Beer Company ( “Saigon Alcohol Beer and Beverages Corporation” or its abbreviation of “Sabeco”), based in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh City (or the old name “Saigon”). Sabeco is Vietnam’s leading beer producer, and is state owned under the authority of Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. Its main brands are Saigon Beer and 333 Beer, and it has about 50% of the market share of the country. 
There is some rice in this with a dab of malt, or so they say….. 
A bit hoppy, with a light bitter aftertaste, but its slight.
Kilkenny is an Irish cream ale from the makers of Guinness, which originated in Kilkenny, Ireland, hence the name! The brand is managed and produced by Diageo. It is available in draught and cans.
A lot of the reviews say 4.3%, but mine was 4.2% ABV, maybe different for the German market perhaps.
On taste I get a smooth creamy mouthful from the beer, some grains, a bit of caramel, it all tastes nice and very smooth.
Singha is a 5% abv pale lager produced by the Boon Rawd Brewery in Bangkok, Thailand. 
Like Chang, Singha is easy to get in Thai and Asian restaurants and supermarkets all across Europe. 
The bottle top has Singha’s dragon logo which looks pretty cool and there is a yellow lion on the front of the bottle. We are also told that this is “The original Thai beer since 1933.”
No lacing but a perfectly clear looking beer….
Chang, which is the Thai world for ‘elephant’, is brewed at Cosmos Brewery in Thailand.
Thai Beverage, better known as ThaiBev, is Thailand’s largest beverage company, and also has significant operations in Europe, producing malt Scotch whisky, vodka, gin, and liqueurs with over 20 distilleries in Scotland, France, Poland, and Ireland. Chang beer is exported to 20 countries, and can be found in many Thai and Asian themed restaurants all over the world.
With a nice logo of two big elephants facing each other on its label, Chang is the Thai word for elephant, an important animal in Thailand as a symbol of both power and peace.
On the nose I get an initial sweet piercing smell of lemon but overall not so strong, very faint.
Too sweet for my liking, and the tastes are not well balanced.
Brewing in this region dates back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. From the early Slavs in the first century to Bohemians who were brewing beer by 1088. In 1295 the City of Pilsen was established, and with it the beginnings of brewing, and in 1307 we have the first historical recorded mention of the existence of an actual brewery with malt house.
The beer was a sensation: the world’s first golden lager, unlike anything most beer drinkers at the time had ever seen.
Coming in a nice green bottle and with classy looking labelling. There’s an attractive red seal stating that this is the “The Original Pilsner”, just so you dont get mixed up with all those cool Czech beers on the market. This one is the original, make no doubt about it!
Hoppy aftertaste which is a bit overbearing to be honest.