Cusqueña

Brewed in the foothills of Macchu Picchu, Peru. Lively crisp golden lager, if its good enough for the Inca's it's good enough for me! Scores a malty 8.2 MWB. Makes me wonder why Paddington Bear left?!?

The Suppliers story is worth a read :-

About Cusquena

“Cusqueña is marvellous, fresh and crisp with a malty flavour that knocks the spots of the watery Mexican Lagers”

Restaurant, 10th May 2006

The story…a few years ago we left jobs in the UK and went travelling for 18 months.

In the last month we were travelling in Peru and after a trek to the lost city of Machu Picchu we were sat in a bar in Cusco celebrating our trip with friends and a a few Cusqueña lagers.

Everyone around our table commented that this was one of the best lagers they’d ever drunk! It’s clean & crisp taste impressed everyone and unlike the usual watery style Latin beers it had a richness to it that tasted European.

One of the guys on the table was a top bartender from Scotland and he said it would do amazing in the bars he’d worked in.

The next day after an amazing party everyone met up & everyone had a fresh head. We all started calling Cusqueña; “Magic Beer”.

We then did some research on the internet in a café in Cusco and found out it Cusqueña was German in origin, all natural and made from the purest glacial water from a source at 18,000 feet in the Andes. We thought maybe we should bring this fabulous lager home!!

Two months later and armed with cases we’d sent back we taste tested it to some of the best bars in Manchester & after a fantastic reaction we established a company & became the exclusive UK Drinks Marketers for Cusqueña.

With its fantastic taste and being genuinely imported it quickly had a glowing endorsement from the UK’s top bartenders and style press. This has helped Cusqueña secure a growing celebrity following and also seen it become the chosen brand for all GQ and Glamour Magazine’s respective celebrity events!

Two years later, Cusqueña is now stocked in some of the best bars, restaurants & boutique hotels in the country and some of the best supermarkets. It is forecast to be the one to watch by many industry insiders!

From our moment in Peru we are now immersed in an industry we never planned to be in against some big people with lots of money! However with a fabulous product and some great support we are hot on the heels of some of those brands!

Thanks for all your support, we are glad you are as big a fan of CUS-KEN-YA as us!

Kieron & Gareth

The Discoverers

Red Stripe

From Wikipedia:- Red Stripe is a 4.7% abv, pale lager brewed by Desnoes & Geddes in Jamaica. It was first produced in 1938 from a recipe developed by Paul H. Cotter (the son of founder E. P. Cotter) and Bill Martindale.

Unfortunately this is now brewed and bottled in the U.K. Very watery and I'm sure not like the imported beer. A very English 7.5 MBW. I've got three more to drink yet....it's a tough job!

Palma Cristal

Palma Cristal

Brewed in Holguin Cuba. 4.9%ABV. Another Pete Special.  Pale yellow in colour, not much of an aroma and watery to taste. Maybe better with a cigar! 

7.9 MWB

Producers notes:-

Brewed in Cuba since 1928, Palma Cristal is the leading Cuban beer brand. Ingredients: Water, malted barley, sugar and hops. (Plato level 10°)

Stella Artois

A super beer, one of the greats, a giant amongst men. It's taken up permanent residence in my fridge. It scored a deserved 9.0 MWB

Mongoose Premium Beer

"Original Extra Smooth Indian Recipe" which means brewed and bottled in the U.K, always a disappointment. Not the best tasting lager and struggling to call it a World Beer so for that its scores a sorry 7.1 MWB, the lowest score yet.

WULD Beer

WULD - 4.5%ABV - Last from Fuerteventura trip, bumpy boat trip to Los Lobos with the family. Could only try it after I stopped feeling sick!!  7.8WBF 

Cerveza Wuld Pilsen a Pale Lager beer by Font Salem (Damm), a brewery in El Puig, Valencia, Spain. 

Quilmes

Quilmes - Argentinian - 4.9% ABV nice and fresh, more Ossie Ardiles than Diego Maradona - 8.5MBW

Duff Beer

Duff - drank on holiday in Fuerteventura . 2 homer's aka Pete & Me

 7.25 MBW

Boheme Pilsen

Boheme 1795 from the same town as Budvar but that's where the similarity ends - 7.9MBW

Vratislav

Vratislav - 5%ABV - Brewed in Prague by Staropramen - not bad at all as you'd expect from this Czech brewing power house. 

 8.2MBW 

Kingfisher

Kingfisher Feel's wrong drinking this when not eating a curry, 8.2 MBW solid player. 

Manufacturers blurb - " Our story began in 1857, where Kingfisher beer was first created at Castle Breweries in Mysore, which in 1915 joined forces with four others in southern India to form a brewery of the highest class. It produced a refreshing lager of the very finest quality, worthy of the title of India's No.1 Beer. And so United Breweries was born."

Ringnes

Ringnes Pilsner £8 down the plug hole in Norwegian hotel. 4.6%ABV - Nice beer, tad on the pricey side! Brewed in Oslo - 7.7MBW

Bavaria

Bavaria is actually from Holland.

5% ABV. Tastes a bit dull but at £1 for 1/2 litre from Morrisons it gets 8.0 MBW

STAROSLAV

Aldi special, STAROSLAV. 4%ABV. Bland as a Milliband speech but finished quicker thank god. 

7.1 MBW

Cruzcampo

Cruzcampo 4.8% ABV

Brewed in Sevilla Spain

7.8 MBW

Flensburger Gold

Flensburger Gold 4.8%ABV
Brewed in Flensburg, Germany. Loving the old flip top. Very Malty. 7.9 MBW

REINA

Reina - brewed in Tenerife, the last of the Canary Isle trio.....and the worst, no real flavour  7.3 MBW

COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION

The beer of a new generation in the Canaries. Brewed in accordance with the 1516 purity law.