“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
Frank Zappa
Europe
Ireland
Guinness Draught, 4.2% ABV
This includes a patented "rocket widget" to simulate the familiar draught taste.
33cl £1.49
Guinness Original, 4.2% ABV
Steeped in heritage, this is a complex beer full of character. Differs from the familiar draught Guinness in that it does not contain any nitrogen (which gives the draught version its creamy head) only carbon dioxide. Strong tasting with a distinctive roasted bitterness, Guinness Original is their authentic carbonated classic.
33cl £1.19
Murphy's Irish Red, 5.0% ABV
Irish red beers get their reddish colour from the use of a small amount of roasted barley. This is a light bodied bitter beer with a dark red colour.
Widely available in Ireland
And another thing...
Everyone knows about Ireland's most successful alcoholic drink but did you know it comes so many varieties – Michael Jackson's Beer Companion, which is a few years old, quotes “Dublin makes five or six principal versions of Guinness, in a total of 19 variations”.
What they eat
Anything that goes with the Black Stuff: colcannon, Irish stew, oysters.
England
Fuller's London Porter, 5.4%
Brewed by the River Thames using a trio of brown malts, this Dickensian-esque drop has the dark hue of a cheeky soot-swathed chimney-sweep. Silky and smooth like Barry White's bedsheets, it's nutty with a touch of liquorice, coffee and deliciously dark bitter chocolate. Great with oysters or in a stew.
50cl £2.49
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA, 5.9%
A quintessentially English beer style revived by one of the most progressive and adventurous micro breweries in the UK. A fruity, honey-tinged and delightfully hoppy India Pale Ale that can go toe-to-toe with strong, spicy food.
12x33cl £24.00
Carling, 4.0% ABV
In 1818 Thomas Carling set sail for Canada taking his father's home brew recipe with him. Carling became available in the UK in 1952 as lagers became more popular in the UK. In the 70s the hugely successful 'I bet he drinks Carling Black Label' advertising campaign made the brand a household name and the launch of Carling Black Label in cans was important as it helped open up the "take home" market. Made with 100% British barley it is England's most consumed lager. During 2009 the sales reached a new record with 4.1 billion pints, and an amazing 11.6 billion pints worldwide!
Widely available
Timothy Taylor Landlord, 4.3% ABV
First name on the British beer-lover's team-sheet, Landlord is a multi-award winner brewed with Golden Promise malt and water that runs off the Pennine Hills. It's got zing, tang and a remarkable rosemary-pine hop finale.
12x50cl £33.75
And another thing...
From approximately 1066 to 1362, French was the official language in England. England got its own back when it made "Allo Allo".
What they eat
A buy one-get-six-free Chicken Tikka and Yorkshire pudding pizza in a Marmite sauce served with alphabetti spaghetti, two frankfurters and a drizzle of Bovril.
Scotland
McEwans Export Scottish Ale, 4.5% ABV
Amber colour with a thick head. Sweet, spicy aroma with a hoppy finish.
50cl £1.16
Innis and Gunn, 6.6% ABV
Oak-aged beer that is slightly sweet and honeyed with a touch of citrus, malty and rich and deep with a long finish.
33cl £1.99
And another thing...
Whisky was actually invented in China, distilled in Ireland by monks from early on in the 15th century before reaching Scotland about 100 years later. Irish whiskey (note the spelling) was dominant until Prohibition.
What they eat
The most famous Scottish delicacy is, of course, haggis, made from sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for about an hour.
They also eat deep-fried Mars bars...
Wales
Evan Evans Warrior, 4.6% ABV
Clear deep golden colour. Malty with bitter hop character and caramel and roasted malts.
50cl £1.49
Brains SA Gold, 4.7% ABV
Full-flavoured, hoppy and refreshing golden ale.
Widely available
And another thing...
Wales raises more sheep than any other area in Europe. Its 11,000,000 sheep represent about 15 percent of the sheep in the European Community.
What they eat
Leeks (apart from lamb of course).
Netherlands
Heineken 5.0% ABV
From the land of clogs, tulips and liberal attitudes to hanky-panky comes one of the world's most legendary lagers. Brewed since 1873 and available all over the globe, its iconic green bottled, adorned with a red star, holds a clean and crispy lager with a fine fruity finish.
Widely available
Grolsch Weizen, 5.3% ABV
Fuller-bodied than Belgian witbiers but with more spice than a Bavarian weizen.
50cl £2.39
Premiant Hopburst, 6.2% ABV
Handcrafted beer, brewed in a windmill at the De Molen brewery which specialises in quirky beers. Very hoppy (from the Czech Premiant hops) and nicely bitter. Nice champagne cork for celebrating.
75cl £6.99
And another thing...
The Dutch have the lowest intolerance to lactose in the world yet, in terms of height, they're the highest in the world.
What they eat
A popular pub snack is bitterballen. A savoury deep-fried meat-based snack made from beef, beef stock, flour, parsley and seasoning. Best accompanied by lashings of mustard and a beer.
Denmark
Mikkeller Single Hop IPA, 6.9% ABV
Founder and brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, the man behind the marvellous Mikkeller beers, doesn't even have a brewery. He trots the globe like a hedonistic hobo, collaborating with the cream of the world's craft brewing talent and borrowing their brains and equipment to create his unique ales.
33cl £3.15
Carlsberg Export, 5.0% ABV
Carlsberg don't do beer but if they did, it'd probably taste like this. What's that? They do? Oh right. So, anyway, Carlsberg was the first brewery to domesticate wild yeast and it's now a bit of a big deal in the world of brewing. Its slightly stronger golden European pilsner achieves a thirst-slaking balance between malt sweetness and herbal hop bitterness.
Widely available
And another thing...
Lego was invented in Denmark in 1932. Since then, 320 billion kits have been sold which, according to this abacus here, is the equivalent of every human being in the world owning about 56 Lego bricks.
What they eat
They love a bit of herring and smoked eel. And, of course, bacon. Sometimes they eat it all together on a smorgasbord which is basically a small buffet designed for people who can't be bothered to cook a proper meal.
Belgium
Cantillon Gueuze, 5.0% ABV
“The champagne of Belgium...” Whereas most styles of beers are fermented with carefully measured brewer's yeast, Lambics are created through a process of spontaneous fermentation. Gueuze is the result of artfully blending Lambics of different ages and different tastes. Very light bodied, smooth, clean with notes of citrus.
75cl £5.89
Stella Artois, 5.0% ABV
Full-bodied but exceptionally thirst-quenching lager brewed with Saaz hops.
Widely available
Chimay Red, 7.0% ABV
The red-cap was the first beer to be brewed by the Trappist monks. It is most noted for its coppery, attractive colour. Topped with a creamy head, it gives off a light, fruity apricot aroma produced by the fermentation process. With a touch of bitterness, this beer is neither filtered nor pasteurised and tastes best when served at a 10-12℃.
Available from Morrisons, Tesco and Booths (£1.59 per 33cl)
Duvel, 8.5% ABV
A strong golden ale, fruity and exceptionally aromatic using Saaz-Saaz and Styrian Golding hops, blond in appearance and best served at a temperature of 8°c. A 100% natural beer with no additives or preservatives, it has a huge creamy head, delicate effervescence and silky smooth mouth. Delightfully aromatic with a subtle bitter bite.
Available from all major supermarkets and off licences RRP £1.69
And another thing...
Almost 90% of raw diamonds in the world are negotiated and distributed in Antwerp.
What they eat
Chocolate. The world's biggest chocolate selling point is the Brussels National Airport.
France
Jenlain Ambree, 7.5% ABV
A classic biere-de-garde from a family-owned brewery in Northern France. A dark amber ale brewed with three different hops and three different types of French barley malt.
75cl £2.59
Kronenbourg, 5.0% ABV
A touch of bitterness and with a sweet citrus finish, Kronenbourg 1664 hails from the Alsace region of France from where the Strisselspalt hop hails. True story.
Widely available
Kasteel Cru, 5.2% ABV
A light Alsace-style lager brewed with Champagne yeast. A deft and dainty drop with a great fluffy white head and a fine finish.
33cl £1.92
Colomba, 5.0% ABV
A wonderfully refreshing, unfiltered, bottom-fermented wheat beer brewed with Corsican maquis - a spicy, herbal blend of tree strawberry, myrtle, and juniper that's sunk into the mash-tun like a big tea-bag.
33cl £1.79
And another thing...
Famous French person Michel Lotito, AKA Monsieur Mangetout (Mr Eat Everything), entered the Guinness Book of World Records when he ate a Cessna Aeroplane Model Number 150. He also ate 18 bicycles and just as many television sets and supermarket trolleys. He is now dead.
What they eat
In France, eating is a national pastime and they eat pretty much everything and anything: onions, croissants, seriously pongy cheese, snails, frogs, and oodles of cream.
Germany
Schneider Weisse, 5.4% ABV
Bursting with banana flavours and cloves, it is to Bavarian wheat beer what Jurgen Klinsman was to diving. One of the world's finest wheat beers.
50cl £2.19
Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel, 7.1% ABV
Chocolate raisins, prunes, bitter coffee beans and a peppery twang all feature in this chewy maroon-coloured dark beer from a Monastic brewery located at the foot of the "Holy Mountain", south of Munich.
50cl £2.19
Beck's 5.0% ABV
Brewed using the scrabble-winning Reinheitsgebot purity law, Hallertau hops and, of course, clichéd Teutonic efficiency, Beck's still uses the original 1873 recipe. “Full bodied in taste, with a hoppy bouquet, golden colour and rich, full head.”
Widely available
And another thing...
Neanderthal man came from just outside Düsseldorf.
What they eat
The Germans really do love a bit of sausage with more than 150 kinds of wurst made within its borders.
Austria
Samichlaus Lager, 14.0% ABV
The strongest lager beer in the world, brewed only once a year on December 6th. Samichlaus is aged for 10 months before bottling. This beer is perhaps the rarest in the world and may be aged for many years to come.
Older vintages become more complex with a creamy warming finish.
33cl £3.29
Switzerland
Hurlimann Lager, 5.0% ABV
Named after Albert Hurlimann, a brainy boffin who spent his life poking and peering at yeast, this citrus-scented Swiss lager is a zesty Zurich-born affair that's clean, crisp and now brewed in Kent to ensure freshness.
20x500ml £46.50
Shepherd Neame pubs
And another thing...
In the region of Appenzell, cows outnumber people 15,000 to 1; farmers wear teaspoons as earrings and women were only given the regional vote in 1991.
What they eat
They scrape melted cheese using a pen-knife and then eat it using a cuckoo clock.
Italy
Peroni, 4.7% ABV
As anyone who has witnessed a swarthy lothario pootling around an Italian piazza, beeping the horn on his Vespa and pinching girls' behinds, will testify, Italians are nothing if not smooth. But few are as smooth as this lip-puckering pilsner that's Italy's best-selling beer. Yet another thing the Romans have done for us.
Widely available
Le Baladin Open, 7.0% ABV
A hugely hoppy and grapefruity Italian-style lager. It's irreverent and ingenious brewer Teo Musso uses whisky yeast and plays music to the beer while it ferments.
6x75cl £31.30
Available through the International Beer Company - Tel: 0781 020 0749
And another thing...
It is illegal to be a prostitute in the Tuscan city of Siena if your name is Mary.
What they eat
Pasta, panini (not the stickers) and pizza justa like momma used to make-a.
Spain
Alhambra Premium, 6.4% ABV
Presented in a terrific old-style green bottle, 1925 is Alhambra's showpiece sip and pours dark amber colour with a thick, fluffy head. Powerful dark caramel-like malt aromas and full-textured body with a tight, terse hop bite. Rounded grassy finish.
Available in 33cl through The Morgenrot Group - 0845 070 4310 and Amathus Drinks Plc - 0208 808 4181
Estrella Damm, 5.4% ABV
This “Beer of Barcelona” was founded in 1876 by an Alsatian brewer called Auguste Kuentzmann Damm, Damm's range of beers are predominantly German-influenced. A darn drinkable dry pilsner that swigs easier than its strength suggests.
4x33cl £4.35
And another thing...
Basque is the last remaining pre-Indo-European language in Europe.
What they eat
Tapas. These are normal meals just smaller. They also eat paella.
Portugal
Sagres, 5.0% ABV
The lager of Lisbon, Sagres is supped all over southern Portugal. A German-style pilsner best served with light tapas.
24x33cl £31.94
And another thing...
Portugal's first-ever flag was exactly the same as Finland's.
What they eat
The Portuguese are as guilty as anyone of depleting the world's resource of cod; they famously have 365 different ways of cooking it, a dish for every day.
Greece
Mythos, 5.0% ABV
A clean, simple thirst-quenching pilsner style lager. Could complement a feta salad or ideal as a refreshing aperitif.
33cl £1.29
And another thing...
According to the Durex Global survey, Greece is the most sexual country in the world.
What they eat
Kebabs.
Czech Republic
Staropramen, 5.0% ABV
Claims to be the first Pilsner style lager, i.e. clear and golden. Lightly hoppy aromas but good hop bitterness on honeyed malt.
33cl £1.29
Pilsner Urquell, 4.4% ABV
The Pride of Prague has rich hop aromas, soft malty flavour and a quenching bitter finish. Very refreshing on the palate.
33cl £1.39
Budweiser Budvar, 5.0% ABV
Brewed from the finest Saaz aroma hops, carefully selected Moravian malt and soft water from wells 300 metres deep, this is a lager with assertive hop.
Widely available
And another thing...
The Czech Republic has the highest per capita beer consumption in the world. Not surprising when they created the distinctive Pilsner style which is imitated all over the world.
What they eat
Roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut
Slovenia
Lasko Club 4.9% ABV
Light pasteurised lager beer.
Lasko Beer UK Ltd, 162-168 Regent St, London, W1B 5TD
And another thing...
Slovenia has the lowest rate of marriages of all the countries in the EU. The Slovenes are hiring a pub called The Colonies in Victoria for the duration of the World Cup.
What they eat
Ghoulash, usually beef, with dumplings. They're also partial to the odd strudel too.
Serbia
Jelen Pivo 5.0% ABV
Jelen Pivo (Jelen (deer) Beer) is a Serbian leading beer brand with 5.0% ABV. Very strong and recognizable national beer brand and is a part of long brewing tradition for over 250 years. Jelen Beer is the best-selling beer brand in Central and East European region and the favourite beer brand in the Balkans! It is a core lager beer, made of high quality ingredients, with a recognizable bitter taste that Jelen Beer enthusiasts love. For those reasons, Jelen Beer is one of the most favourite products in Serbia.
And another thing...
Nicola Tesla, who was a Serb, invented the electric motor.
What they eat
Koljivo, a thinking Serb's porridge served with sugar and walnuts, is a bit of a treat.
Slovakia
Zlaty Bazant, 5.0% ABV
Meaning Golden Pheasant, the biggest beer in Slovakia is a pale European lager brewed in a Czech style.
50cl £1.99
And another thing...
Slovakia's most famous son is Móric Beňovský. Despite only living for 40 years, he managed to be an adventurer, globetrotter, explorer, colonizer, writer, chess player, a French colonel, Polish military commander, and Austrian soldier. He was somehow elected as King of Madagascar by the natives in 1776.
What they eat
A potato pancake fried in oil.
North America
United States of America
Anchor Steam Beer, 4.8% ABV
This San Franciscan cult beer dates back to the 1890s California Gold Rush. It straddles the gap between a lager and an ale and is brewed using fresh North American hop flowers.
24x 35.5cl £37.42
Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch) 5% ABV
To be a true American, there are lots of things you need to do. Whoop, holler, wear a Stetson, say the word "aluminium" in a manner that makes little sense and, most important of all, sip on a Bud while eating nachos and 'watching the game'. The best selling beer brand in the western world has few rivals in the "easy drinking" stakes. Brewed with rice and lagered using beechwood, Budweiser is as American as apple pie.
Widely available
Brooklyn Lager, 5.1% ABV
Lots of daft laws have been passed in America. In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession. In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760 and an Alaskan law dictates that you can't look at a moose from an airplane. But the daftest of the lot, without doubt, is Prohibition from 1919. Prior to this, Brooklyn was the epicentre of American craft brewing and, aside from a 'cuppacaworfeee' this was the kind of stuff New Yorkers were drinking. An amber-gold Viennese-style lager that's sturdy, smooth and blessed with a touch of caramel.
35.5cl £1.40
Blue Moon, 5.4% ABV
Refreshing Belgian-style wheat beer brewed with coriander and orange peel.
35.5cl £1.99
And another thing...
It was once illegal to take a bath in the wintertime in Indiana.
What they eat
Whatever they want and far too much of it.
Canada
Moosehead, 5.0% ABV
Brewed by Canada's oldest brewery (founded in 1867 by Susannah Oland) this is a pale hoppy fruity lager with a fruity crispness on the nose and lots of hoppy, herby flavour and a nice dry finish.
35.5cl £1.35
Central America
Mexico
Negra Modelo, 5.3% ABV
The dark beer alternative for Mexican beer drinkers. One of the few surviving examples of Vienna-type beer, creamy, smooth and full of flavour.
33cl £1.89
Dos Equis, 4.8% ABV
This tawny-brown coloured Vienna-style lager is proof that it's not all parch-busting pilsners in Mexico. Firm of body and sound of sip, its velvet malt texture comes varnished with a resinous, grassy hop character that will happily fight a fiery fajita and exchange blows with a palate-burning burrito.
24x 33cl £39.37
And another thing...
The Cuexcomate, in the city of Puebla, is the world's smallest volcano. It's only 43 ft tall.
What they eat
All about the chilli. Meat-filled tortillas too.
South America
Brazil
Brahma Lager Beer, 4.8% ABV
Like Pele after he's kicked a winner, Brahma doesn't let you down in terms of satisfaction. Created by Joseph Villager in 1888, Brahma is a light, easy-drinking lager sipped all over Brazil.
Widely available
Xingu, 4.7% ABV
A black, silky lager laced with sweet treacle on the palate, a tight tan-head and liquorice on the nose. Pronounced Shin-goo, it is inspired by an ancient Amazonian tribe that brewed black beer as far back as 1557.
33cl £1.40
And another thing...
Bolivia comfortably outstrips Brazil in its annual Brazil nut yield.
What they eat
Brazilian and AC Milan star Ronaldinho's favourite dish is feijoada, a beef or pork stew made with black turtle beans.
Argentina
Quilmes, 4.8% ABV
A major player in the South American market since 1888, Quilmes is a fruity yet approachable golden lager brewed using Patagonian hops.
33cl £1.29
And another thing...
In 1906 Argentina played South Africa in the first intercontinental football match.
What they eat
Massive chunks of cow served up as parrillada. In Argentina, vegetarians are locked up in an institution.
Far East
China
Lucky (Buddha bottle), 4.8% ABV
Lucky beer was born in Australia but is now authentically brewed in China using rice, malted barley and Czech Saaz hops. It has a clean, classic style with a crisp, fresh finish. Try it with a slice of ginger.
Oh, apparently rubbing Buddha's tummy brings good luck...
33cl £1.58
Tsingtao Lager, 4.8% ABV
The Tsingtao Brewery was founded in 1903 by German settlers in Qingdao, China and is the 10th largest brewery in the world. Tsingtao is brewed with the natural ingredients including domestically-grown hops, high quality barley and spring water from China's Laoshan mountain region. Tsingtao is quoted as being the number-one branded consumer product exported from China. Tsingtao has a crisp, slightly malty flavour and nutty sweet taste which goes well with spicy Asian cuisine.
33cl £1.19
And another thing...
In total, the Chinese drink more beer than any other nation.
What they eat
Basically, what the rest of the world doesn't. Ducks' tongues and feet, snake soup, deep-fried silkworm larvae...
Japan
Asahi, 5.0% ABV
Now the biggest brewer in Japan, Asahi dates back to 1889, when it was known as the Osaka Beer Brewing Company. In 1987, it bucked the national trend for slightly sweeter lagers with the launch of Asahi Super Dry, a crisp golden lager with a dry, almost sarcastic, finish.
33cl £1.59
And another thing...
In Japan, the American TV comedy "Ally McBeal" is called "Ally My Love" because McBeal when said in a Japanese dialect sounds like McBeer.
What they eat
Kobe Beef, a Japanese delicacy, is the world's most expensive type of beef. To make it, cattle are regularly fed and massaged in beer. Lucky things.
Thailand
Singha, 5.0% ABV
The oldest and most popular Thai beer. Grassy and malty with a touch of caramel. Not especially hoppy.
33cl £1.29
And another thing...
Thailand has the world's largest crocodile farm
What they eat
Pad Thai (stir-fried rice noodles with lots of chilli).
Laos
Beer Lao, 5.0% ABV
Proclaimed as Asia's best beer by TIME magazine, Beer Lao is brewed in Laos with hand picked indigenous rice varieties, spring water originating from the foothills of the Himalayas, Hallertau hops, German yeast and French malted barley.
33cl £1.59
And another thing...
Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world. Wikipedia quotes that the Guardian reported that “Laos was hit by an average of one B-52 bombload every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, between 1964 and 1973. US bombers dropped more ordnance on Laos in this period than was dropped during the whole of the Second World War.”
What they eat
Sticky rice.
South Korea
Hite, 4.5% ABV
A spick-and-span pale lager that gets its slight grapefruit notes from Cascade hops.
33cl £1.09
And another thing...
The number four is unlucky in South Korea.
What they eat
No, dummy, they don't eat dog - that's a myth. To accompany a beer, South Koreans eat Anju – a catch-all term for exotic nibbles such as live squid, boiled pig feet or, if you'd prefer, peanuts.
Australasia
Australia
Foster's, 4.0% ABV
Streuth, lagers don't come much more super-chilled than this. Colder than the heart of a baby-stealing dingo, Foster's is a sure-fire fridge-filler for all sports fans.
Widely available
Coopers Sparkling Ale, 5.8% ABV
A deep auburn coloured and cloudy bottle-conditioned beer. A 'honeyed' hop aroma followed by a full bodied fruity, raspberry-ish note, with a mild hop bite.
24x 37.3cl £33.79
Little Creatures Pale Ale, 5.2% ABV
Excellent lychee-tinged pale ale from Freemantle whose hazy hue and easy sipping makes it a superb summer sip. Brewed using hops sourced from the Pacific Northwest.
37.5cl £1.99
And another thing...
The number of Australians currently living in London stands at 12,765,429.
What they eat
Pretty much anything as long as it's been thrown on the barbie. Prawns. Seafood. Dingoes. Kangaroos. Koalas. Bouncer from Neighbours.
New Zealand
Steinlager, 5.0% ABV
Distinctive notes of cooked grains, sweet nettle stems, with herbaceous flavours from its native Green Bullet hops.
Monteith's Lager, 5.2% ABV
Monteith's brewery in Greymouth, on New Zealand's west coast, dates back almost 150 years. In 2001, it was closed by new corporate owners but, following public outcry, re-opened four days later. The brewery still uses boilers fuelled by coal and open fermentation and the beers remain unpasteurised. A light-bodied lager, soft and mellow with a nutty send off.
6x33cl £10.89
And another thing...
New Zealand has the longest place name still in use: It's called "Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat- uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and it's a hill meaning "Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one".
What they eat
Fish and chips. But in New Zealand they call it "fush and chups".
Africa
South Africa
Amstel, 5.0% ABV
(Brewed in South Africa as opposed to the Dutch one). Brewed with all the Dutch deftness of a skating turn and imbibed all over South Africa, Amstel is a little hoppier than most mainstream lagers and is super with little lumps of hard cheese. It was originally named after the river that runs through Amsterdam but, don't worry, it tastes much better – and isn't clogged up with boats, pedalos, swans, old bikes and the like.
6x 33cl £11.29
And another thing...
South Africa is one of the few African countries where hops can grow successfully. The indigenous drink is sorghum beer. As much a food as a drink, sorghum is sweet and cloudy with a consistency as thick as a footballer's WAG and fermented using wild yeast.
What they eat
Biltong. A salty dried meat that looks, and tastes, a bit like a leather strap from an old shoe. Good with beer though.
Nigeria
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, 7.5% ABV
Like Guinness on steroids. Black cherry flavoured, jet black sweet and slightly sour stout, this is genuine, uncut liquid craic brewed in Nigeria. Ideal with scallops and oysters.
33cl £1.95
And another thing...
Nigeria is a massive country of almost 100 million people comprising 250 ethnic groups speaking 4000 dialects.
What they eat
Jolloff rice with tomatoes and tomato paste, onion, salt, spices (such as nutmeg, ginger, Guinea pepper or cumin) and chilli pepper, to which optional ingredients can be added such as vegetables, meat and fish.
Ghana
Star 5.0% ABV
When it gets hot in Ghana, which it does a lot, this crisp and slightly sweet pale lager hits the spot.
62.5cl £2.49
Rye Lane Off Licence 164 Rye Lane, Peckham Rye, SE15
And another thing...
Ghana's Lake Volta is the largest artificial lake in the world.
What they eat
The strangely named "Kofi Broke Man" is a basic meat stew consumed at Ghana's fast food "Chop Bars".
Kenya
Tusker Lager, 4.2% ABV
One of the founders of Kenya Breweries Ltd, George Hurst, was killed by an elephant during a hunting accident in 1923. So the lager he helped create was renamed 'Tusker' and the elephant logo was incorporated.
Tusker Lager is brewed using malted barley grown in the scenic Kenyan Rift Valley, hops and water. A beer with low astringency, sweet toffee, warm cooked sugars and mouth-wetting soft mouthfeel.
12x50cl £28.01
