Trois Chariots Blonde
Brewed by Brasserie De Sutter
Style: Blonde IPA
Gisors, France
Two brothers, Antoine and Frédéric, with a deep passion for beer and with their agronomy and brewery diplomas in the bag, founded the Brasserie De Sutter in 2008.
In 2012, they moved production to Gisors, in Normandy, north France, to a larger more efficient operation with greater output.
The name of the beers, Trois Chariots, comes from history. In 1307, the Knights Templar are arrested by order of the King of France and the treasures of the Templars are moved out of Paris, concealed with the help of three trolleys. The brewery likes to use three different styles of hops in their brews, hidden away unintrusive to the casual drinker who will surely get a nice surprise when sampling the gems of the brewery, or something like that!
Review: 33cl bottle of Trois Chariots Blonde: 6.3% vol.
Bought in Lidl France. Picture of a chariot on bottle.
A cloudy looking dark orange colour with a small white head on pour. Some carbonation.
Did not get a whole lot in the bottle, which is always a bummer.
Getting a nice red hue in the colour after a while, which is attractive to see.
The smell, well oh my word, it is very strong on the nose, but very pleasant. I am getting a lot of dark fruits, some spices, caramel, and also quite a hoppy aroma. The best aroma I have had off a beer in quite a while. Lovely stuff.
Initially on the taste I found it to be a bit dry in the mouth but the more I got into it the more the fruits and the hops came to the fore. It tasted not too bad at all, very long tasting and lies on the tongue for a while, a deep taste in the mouth. Also the sweet malts and fruity notes also make an appearance, but truth be told this beer is all about the hops.
The hops were well nice and perfect, full bodied, and hitting the spot exactly. Lovely to swill around the mouth and it is a beer to enjoy over time. One to sip.
Very good, enjoyed it, a slow burner but loved it. The hops were fantastic, very, very tasty, great. Recommended.
Originally all their beer was brewed by contract by Matt Brewing Company, it was here that they first developed their famous Brooklyn lager. Other beer types were developed in time, a Weisse to an exciting Black Chocolate Stout to a more standard East IPA.
These days the brewery churns out a whole range of beers, from all sorts of the more traditional types of ales to more fruitier versions (Pumpkin ale anyone?), to stouts, wheat beers, and pilsners, selling to thirsty punters all over the globe, from Scandinavia (in partnership with Carlsberg), to the Far East and Australasia, and to mainland Europe and the UK.
Has a nice amber colour on pour with a decent frothy white head. Looks ok on pour. Some slight lacing. Not a bad looking beer.
Starting small to eventually becoming a bit of a sensation in the brewing world, with all sorts of high jinks and marketing bull. To their credit they have always tried to push the boat out with exciting and innovative styles, using a wide array of mad and exotic ingredients from chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, and mustard to name but a few. And generally they do tend to get the basics right……ie. their beers are actually quite bloody good, continuing to rake up a tonne of awards and prizes all over the globe.
Taste is what you would expect from the BrewDog guys, all overloaded with hops, but they are all very manageable and well balanced, and very tasty to boot in this one. 
Lapin Kulta (Lapland Gold) is a Finnish beer brand and brewery from the Lapland town of Tornio. Founded in 1873, the brewery is now run by Hartwell Ltd, a Finnish beverage company, as part of the Royal Unibrew group. 
My first beer tryout from Finland. The beer uses an original recipe that dates back more than 140 years ago and brewed from the icy water of Lapland. This should be interesting! 
Also getting some floral hops in the taste that were a little bit too sweet, kind of giving it a soapy taste, which wasn’t terrible just a little strange!
Like Alexander, the beer has had to fight and battle its way to the top. Unbelievably by the mid 1990’s a nation as old and great as Greece didn’t even have one 100% authentically Greek owned beer that was produced in the country!!
On pour we get a light yellow coloured beer with a small white head. 
Very malty for sure. Also getting the fresh grains and some fruit. 
Athenian Brewery SA was founded in the 1960’s by a group of Greek entrepreneurs and is a member of the Heineken Group. One of the oldest brands of beer in Greece, since 1961, and plays on its heritage with its authentic Greek name and origin proudly on display. 
On pour I get a golden coloured beer with a desperately disappointing head. No head really to speak about. Some carbonation going on, but not enough to give the beer a decent head.
One of these immigrants was a Johann Ludwig Fuchs, a miner. He was the one who had started the Fuchs (Fix) activity of brewing beer in Greece. As he was from Bavaria he had the deep knowledge of what constituted good beer. Unfortunately on the way to pick up his son, who was arriving from Germany, he was robbed and killed, so that it was to be that the young Karl Johann Fuchs was in a foreign country and suddenly in charge of his fathers fledgling business at just 20 years of age! 
But the good luck eventually ran out as in 1983 the company fell into bankruptcy, and the family owned business was closed down thus ending the legacy of the Fuchs family, in brewing at least. 
On pour I get a very nice and very frothy white headed beer, with a golden colour.
In the late 1990’s, the Lion Nathan brewery in Australia produced a beer called “Duff Beer”. 20th Century Fox brought legal action against the company. The product was ordered to be pulled off store shelves and destroyed, even though the beer had no direct relation to the comedy series, or any similar colouring or logo design. A similar thing happened to Duff Brewery in Dunedin, New Zealand who were brewing their stuff well before even the Simpsons were on the box. To escape heavy court cases and legal drama the company changed the name eventually to McDuff in the end!
For the actual show version of the beer, Duff is made by Duff Breweries in Springfield, small town USA. Duffman, a superhero kind of guy, is their always enthusiastic spokesman all the time wearing a utility belt full of cans of Duff Beer. The beer’s slogan is “Can’t Get Enough of That Wonderful Duff”, though there are others.
Very carbonated on pour, all fizzing away no end, resulting in a very nice and white frothy headed beer that has a nice clear golden colour. Some slight lacing going on. The beer manages to maintain its head throughout. Overall its a pretty decent looking beer. A good start!.
One I got on the holiday island of Corfu. 
Barley strong in this one, plus very grainy. 
Pour a pure yellow colour, looks like a very watered down dilutable orange drink more than anything else, or you could say some fruit juice. No such thing as a head on this fella, but then did you really expect one?
In the northwestern corner of the beautiful holiday island of Corfu lies the Corfu Microbrewery, situated in the small town of Arillas.
Got it on my holidays in Corfu. Comes in a very nice distinctive black bottle with a coat of arms of the company that is impressive to see, stands out in the supermarket. 
On the taste, yeah this is really like an old fashioned red ale, spot on. 
Has some good flavours and tastes, grainy and with a touch of caramel, can also get the hops.