Lagerboy Speaks – Zagorka Special
Hmmm…a European lager with a green and white label in a large green bottle. Lagerboy was just about to walk past the lonely bottle of Heineken on the shelf (there’s a song in there somewhere) when he suddenly noticed a letter Z in the name. Zagorka Special is apparently one of the most popular brands […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Estrella Damm
Some beers have a connection to a specific city that lift them above any others that can be found there – such as Budvar and Prague, Anchor Steam and San Francisco, or Newcastle Brown Ale and…er…Newcastle. Another of these is Estrella Damm and Barcelona. The Catalan capital is written on the distinctive red label no […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Pietra
The Mediterranean brings to mind beaches, olives, carpet salesmen, and British lager louts. But does it bring to mind decent beer? The drunken idiots parading around Ayia Napa and Magaluf might be satisfied with Stella or Carlsberg, but clearly Lagerboy has a bit more of an advanced palate – which is why Pietra took his […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Windhoek
Windhoek, as all nerdy Geography types like myself know all too well, is the capital of Namibia. A large tooth-shaped mass of desert in far south west Africa, it is the world’s second emptiest country (after Mongolia). Yet here, 6000 miles away in eastern Scotland, Windhoek Lager has managed to find itself for sale in […]
Lagerboy (2) Speaks
Greetings, As John mentioned in his comment, lager has been somewhat under-represented of late so here’s an indication that Americans arent totally clueless when it comes to beer. In the 1800’s Brooklyn was home to over 45 breweries, producing a wide variety of beers. The onset of Prohibition in 1920 (one of the American governments […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Lapin Kulta
“Lapin Kulta? Where the hell’s that from?” went through the mind of Lagerboy in front of the chiller cabinet at Peckhams the other day, as a new bottle poked into his field of vision. Initially I thought it was from Italy, but the place name I was squinting at was Tornio, not Torino. As it […]
