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Welcome to Beer O’Clock Australia’s UEFA EURO 2012 Beer Tournament! This is the first game of the tournament between Poland and Greece. Today’s first game will be a battle of the dark beers with Poland being represented by Zywiec Porter and Greece by Craft Smoked Lager. I haven’t had either of these beers before so this should be interesting.
 Zywiec Porter POLAND Baltic Porter 9.5% |
So first to one of the co-hosts; Poland. Zywiec Porter is an impressive looking beer. The nose is roasty and the flavours are of chocolate and coffee, which are roasted to perfection. At 9.5% sip it slowly…
Greece may appear to have an advantage by having a craft beer represent them first. The beer is nowhere near as dark as I had anticipated, it’s almost golden in colour! It smells like peat, there are some hops present but the real character of this beer is smokey quality. It’s very different and unexpected… |
 Craft Smoked Lager GREECE Rauchbier 4.7% |
This was a tightly fought contest right from the off. The Zywiec Porter took an early lead through the fantastic appearance for a Baltic Porter. The noses of both beers are of similar quality, both very roasty and not over done, which is a problem with poor quality smokey beers. Neither of these are poor quality but the smoothness of the Polish beer soundly beat the Greek Craft (and craft) beer, which proved quite difficult to drink after the positive initial sips. The score below is worked out by applying a formula to convert a mark out of 10 to goals..
