Pils Hellas
Brewed by Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti – EZA
Style: Pale Lager
Kyparissi, Atalanti, Fthiotis, Greece
Pils Hellas, brewed by Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti, is an “authentic Greek beer” dating back to 1996. Hellenic Brewery of Atalanti is also commonly known as EZA!
Review: 0,5l can of Pils Hellas: 4.5% vol.
Another Greek beer I had on my holidays in Corfu.
As it says on the can, this original product of Greece, has a “tradition since 1996”. To be honest that is not much of a long tradition, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
The colour is a nice golden yellow, and we get a nice small frothy white head but it does die a death.
A good bit of carbonation bubbling along but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good as the beer has a general flat appearance in total.
A faint light malty, grainy and lagery smell on the nose, but overall its pretty odourless.
The taste is not bad, first impressions are all good. A light tasting lager, with a slight creamy taste on the tongue. Not a huge amount of stand out tastes or flavours but it is doing the job of keeping me happy, going down easy enough, all smooth.
Get the barley malt, and lots of it! A bit watery at times too but not enough to be annoying, cant imagine if it was served warm, luckily mine was in the fridge and came out all cool.
On the company’s website they mention that the beer “has an intense hop flavour”, that’s quite funny, I couldn’t detect that.
An inoffensive beer, soft and light bodied and smooth enough. Overall, overloaded with nice sweet malts.
Finally, it is ok, does the business, But nothing to shout home about, a holiday beer.
“Brasserie du Dzô” is a contraction of the word “Dzojè”, which means Joseph in the Fribourg dialect, a nickname given to the local residents. 
Coming in a small lovely shaped bottle, with an interesting logo of the brewery, a lamb, in black and white with a fork like weapon! Apparently its based on the old family coat of arms. It is pretty cool though. 
Bit of a shock initially, a bit of a “eh, what!”. Very hoppy at the start, took a while to get used to that strong taste.
It was in 1845 when it all started, a German living in Romania at the time, Johan Zweck opened a brewery. During this period it took the name of “Zimbru”.
On pour I get a golden colour with a very disappointing small white head, that goes flat very, very quick. Doesn’t look great at all, not a whole lot to see or admire.
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Bought this beer from the local Coop supermarket here in Basel, bought it in a six pack in a nice black packaged box. The bottle itself had a smart logo with the majestic looking Swiss Alps looking all nice and shiny. 
No carbonation and also not a lot in the bottle, I wonder where it all went to!
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On the bottle you get a nice big UR logo, interesting and striking, it stands out. 
The initial taste was fantastic, very crispy soothing start, very good.
The brewery was founded by Christian Weber in 1878 and takes its name after the nearby hill and castle. Karlsberg’s current owner is Richard Weber, the great-grandson of the brewery’s founder.
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Nice big creamy mouthfuls at the start, a good full bodied lager taste, nice and smooth.
Bought cheap from Lidl France, coming in a lovely little red can that stands out. 
Soft not strong or bitter in taste. Very malty with hints of fruits, wheat and spices. 
This spurred England on, and it was them as they dictated the play and had a few more chances to increase the lead. Lingard should have scored, or at least hit the target when Alli set him up perfectly, while Kane had two bites of the cherry from close on but couldn’t connect. Those chances would come back to bite them on the ass later!
But England held out, just about, to extra time. Expect they didn’t really, as Croatia, continued into the added time, with more of the same, and it was no surprise at all when Mandzukic scored a perfect strikers goal, as the English defence fell asleep and pretty much put Croatia into the final. You just knew England had no idea how to come back after that. Game over!
At half time I would have said that Belgian were bossing it a bit, especially in the centre with Kevin pinging the ball around, so France on the 51st minute kind of scored against the run of play, when Umtiti headed to the back of the net from a corner, one nil to France. 
The game started off all Croatia, moving the ball around the pitch dominating possession, so naturally France went up and scored! The story of their World Cup! Griezmann got a free and from it he floated a lovely ball into the box that Mandzukic unfortunately headed into his own net. Unlucky. 
Croatia came more into it in the second half as England let the foot off the gas, Brozovic hitting the post. That should have woke England up but it didn’t. Sterling still on the pitch, fannying around, while Kane not showing any leadership on the pitch. Perisic, on the other hand, was showing grit by pushing his side forward every chance he had, and all that hard work came off as he scored the equalizer beating the defender to shot for goal, a bit too easy for Croatia. England were now on the ropes. Brozovic missed another chance, an empty goal after a rare blunder by Pickford. Vrsaljko also had Stones clear off the line with a shot. Mandzukic was excellent and had a great shot well saved by Pickford, while Vida at the other end had Sterling ,and Rashford when he came on, had them both in his pocket, well defended considering the speed of those two players. And then at the centre of it all Modric pinning the ball all around the pitch, brilliant to watch, a world class performance if I ever saw one. 
France V Belgium: Great start to the game from both teams, Pogba to Mbappe but Courtois quick off his line, A Hazard shot which Varane just headed over. Alderweireld then with a tight angled shot that seen Lloris saving superbly, up the other end Pavard seeing his shot well saved by Courtois. If anything it was the goalkeepers that were the busiest in the opening exchanges. 
It was all Belgium, Kevin again bossing midfield, Hazard doing his stuff on the wings, Lukaku always a danger up front. 
E Hazard, with a great one two with De Bruyne, scored the second for Belgium killing the game as a contest and so the Belgians take the third spot. A good World cup for both teams, but England were lucky that they got such an easy route to the semi’s, they wont get that again for a while, while the Belgians must be wondering how they didn’t make the final since they were easily the best footballing team in this years tournament. Roll on the Euros 2020!