I've decided to drink one beer from every country in the world. I know it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. And that someone is me. The rules: I have to drink the whole beer, I have to photograph it to prove that I've done it, and it has to be an official, commercially produced beer (no homebrews). The only countries I can skip are ones that don't produce beer (haven't found any yet).

Sunday, August 4, 2013

#24: Estonia

OK after a long absence while I finished my MBA, I'm breathing life into this blog again. And we now have the first Baltic country for the blog: Estonia. It's a small cold country in northeastern Europe who speak a strange language that bears some resemblance to Finnish (an even stranger language). Their main beer company is called Saku, and I stumbled across this Kuld beer made by Saku at a small bottle shop on the New South Wales south coast around Christmas time last year. What choice did I have? I purchased and quaffed this beverage as a matter of no small urgency!

Kuld is actually a pretty damn good beer. It has an odd taste that is somewhere between a pretty hops-y central European pilsener, and a German krystalweizen. I'm not at all sure how they pulled it off, but it kind of works. Due to its strong and strange flavour, I don't imagine I'd like to drink a bunch of them in one sitting, but drinking one was perfectly enjoyable and quite recommended, if you ever manage to find it.

Name: Kuld
Country of production: Republic of Estonia
Style: Some kind of pilsener?
Taste: Puzzling, medium hops, krystal-style grainy finish
Cost: around AU$8 per bottle
Availability in AU: Very low
Cred: Medium
My score: 8 out of 10 long bitter struggles against Soviet hegemony