Beer Day

This week's beer of the week is a new one to me, Zubr. It has a green and gold label with a buffalo on the front. Here's the description on the label:

Brewed for over 200 years on the edge of the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, our golden beer is made from only natural ingredients and the purest water. The kno-how and expertise of our brewmasters ensure uncompromising quality with the rich and full taste of real beer.

It's worth noting that my Zubr came in a 500ml bottle and had 5.8% alc/vol.

There is a slight aroma to the beer, comforting and not offensive. My first taste was surprising, for a beer which is 5.8% alcohol, it is remarkable light in flavour. Ahhh, the second taste (a slightly larger gulp brings a slight but pleasant aftertaste. Sip #3 tells me that this is a high quality beer. One that I could drink a couple of without trouble.

Off I go to find a picture...hey, my extensive research (looking for a picture) tells me that Zubr means Bison (aka Buffalo)...cool.

Well, I must say that I might need to change the "Beer of the Week" to be some sort of more frequent title...either that, or slow down my consumption.

Today I tried a Rickards Pale. This comes to us from Molson Breweries and is a nice smooth easy drinking "Pale" beer. I really enjoyed this beer, it reminds me a bit of the Sleeman Clear I had last week. I'll put this in my "buy it again" category.

Note: I have no idea if they sell Rickards Pale in a bottle...I had my Draught style.

Wow, an old beer commercial featuring Mr Magoo...who would have thought that he'd be pushing Stag Beer?

Wychwood Hobgoblin was my Beer of the Week choice last night. This one was picked up randomly from the liquor store by my better half. It 's described on the bottle as:

"full bodied and well balanced with a chocolate toffee malt flavour, moderate bitterness and a distinctive fruity character with a ruby red glow."

Yes, it is full bodied and definitely has that chocolate toffee malt thing going on. I disagree with the moderate bitterness, it was lightly bitter. Overall a nice beer if you are looking for a more tasty but slightly heavier beer. I would classify this as a fall or winter beer, not a hot day in the summer beer. It was good, but I would likely only have one Wychwood Hobgoblin at a sitting due to it's heavy nature.

My Hobgoblin came in a brown 500ml bottle, but I see many of the pics on the net show it in a clear bottle. I didn't have a glass handy, so I can't comment on the "ruby red glow".

This week's Beer of the Week is Sleeman Silver Creek, brewed by the good people at Sleeman breweries in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

This isn't my first time drinking Sleeman Silver Creek, but it is my first time reviewing it. Another Sleeman beer, Sleeman Clear is a regular in our fridge here at Beer Day headquarters, but I digress. Sleeman Silver Creek comes in the typical clear Sleeman bottle with the raised Sleeman Brewery mark and maple leaf/beaver on it...kind of like a Canadian nickle.

This is a really nice drinking beer, the kind which makes you want to have another. The kind you could drink all day/night on a hot summer day at the cottage...

Note to self: When you get rich, buy a cottage, then buy a cooler, then buy some sleeman silver creek for the cooler, then make some time and drink it all day and night...just to test that theory

Ok, I'm back in the real world now, daydreaming about my Sleeman Silver Creek stocked cooler and my cottage full of friends. Back to the beer. Nice subtle taste, not unlike MGD or Sleeman Clear. A slight beery like smell...the good one, not the bad one like skunky OV. I'm doing my best to imagine whether this beer would go better with steak or fish. I'm thinking steak, steak or Oktoberfest sausage...yeah Oktoberfest sausage with a little sauerkraut , that would be sweet; would it be too much to ask for a little hot mustard too? Ooh, and a pretzel, one of those street vendor hot pretzels, that would be nice

Ok, my beer is empty, this review is officiall over. Kudos if you've read this far, you are far more patient than I am. In Summary, Sleeman Silver Creek is good beer, support a local brewery and have one today.

Hmmm, is this really a Funny Beer Commercial? No, I think not, but since I have a lack of categories, Funny Beer Commercial it is! It is most certainly a Beer Commercial though.

Moving right along with our Beer Goggle Glasses theme, here is an even better version of "Beer Goggle Glasses" from Troegenator Double Bock

An entertaining beer commercial from Tuborg:

Ok, so this vid has absolutely nothing to do with beer, except that I want to have one when I watch it.

This week's beer of the week is Robert Simpson Confederation Ale. I'll keep this short and sweet. This beer was fantastic, excellent, amazing, tasty, delicious. It was clean and crisp with a nice flavour, my fellow beer taster describes it as a perfect guzzling beer. I responded with "but you should savour this beer, it's that good". Of course he took exception to me using the word "good"...oh well, hopefully my description here should make up for it.

Robert Simpson Confederation Ale is brewed in Barrie, Ontario. Support a local beer and give this one a try.

Brick White beer was a little on the light side. It had a slight fruity taste. There wasn't a whole lot of taste and absolutely no after taste, but what taste it did have was appealing, but only for one of the three people at the table who sampled it. This would be a nice summer beer (for me), for by the pool or on the patio. This beer would certainly appeal to people who don't enjoy heavier beer or even people who don't really like beer at all.


I believe they are going after the Corona crowd, but it lacks Corona's distinct flavour and smell. I can see myself ordering this on a hot summer day, or when my big fat belly is hurting, but otherwise I'll stick with my favourites.

This one will really get you thinking, thinking about having a Hahn, that is! Yet another excellent Hahn Beer Commercial

This weeks "Beer of the Week" comes to us from Poland. I really enjoyed my last Polish beer, so I'm excited about trying this one. Unfortunately this weeks "Beer of the Week" tasting is an off site event, so you might have to wait until tomorrow to get the results. Here's the quick and dirty about the bottle.

It comes in a bottle.

The bottle is 500ml.

The bottle has beer in it, Polish beer, from Poland.

Apparently there is some sort of coldness indicator built into the label on this beer...not sure how that works, but I see a label...wow, mood beer!

Extensive testing shows that the Zyweic logo on the temperature indicator changes colour when the beer is cold (as opposed to not so cold). It turns kind of a pinky colour when the beer is ready to drink. Unfortunately it took me so long to drink my Zyweic that my logo went back to white before I was done

I am pretty much in the middle about this beer. I can't say I didn't like it, but I wouldn't rank it among my favourites. It had a strong after taste which sat in the back of my throat, growing stonger with every sip. I tried cleansing my pallet with wine, rye and Chinese food, but still the taste remained. I believe that this beer would appeal to those who enjoy a stronger European beer, or one with a home brewed taste.

I've never actually tried a Hahn, but they have such good commercials that I am going to add it to my life goal list. Yes, I will try a Hahn soon!



Because you can never know too much about the beer you are drinking, here is some info from Wikipedia about Hahn.

Hahn Brewery was established by Dr Charles "Chuck" Hahn in 1986 at an old factory site in the suburb of Camperdown in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

It was originally a brewer of premium beers, including Hahn Premium and Hahn Premium Light. The 1991 recession resulted in reduced demand, and forced a rethink of this policy. A more mainstream beer called Sydney Bitter was produced, with reasonable success.

In 1993 the brewery was purchased by conglomerate Lion Nathan. Production of Hahn beers was moved to the Tooheys brewery in Auburn. The brewery itself was renamed to the Malt Shovel Brewery and is still under the direction of Chuck Hahn.

Another great beer commercial from Toohey's. It's a good idea! This may very well be my favourite beer commercial of all time.



Since Tooheys makes such great Beer Commercials, it's important to take a look at who they are...this from Wikipedia:

Tooheys is an Australian brewery in the suburb of Lidcombe, in Sydney, New South Wales. It is part of the Lion Nathan group which is an Australasian alcoholic beverages company with operations in Australian and New Zealand producing and taking to market beer, fine wine, spirits and RTDs.

Some of the major brands brewed at Tooheys include Tooheys New, Tooheys Old, Tooheys Extra Dry, Tooheys Extra Dry Platinum, Tooheys Gold, Hahn Super Dry, Hahn Premium Light and Hahn Premium.