Well my grandparents just came back from St. Lucia and brought me a 6 pack of the local beer there named after the Piton Mountains in the Caribbean. Piton is brewed by the Windward and Leeward Brewery in St. Lucia. My grandparents said that the only 2 beers on the island available were Heineken and Piton. After a little digging I found that the Windward and Leeward Brewery was founded by Heineken in 1974 and started brewing in 1975. Piton Beer is a %5.0 pilsner lager with a very crisp and refreshing taste. With a bit of a flowery hoppy aroma, I had a bit of a citrus taste to it but that just could be me. Now unfortunately this is not available in Canada or the US but if you are ever in the Caribbean this is a must have must try.

Country:          St. Lucia

Type:               Lager

Alcohol:          %5.0

Rating:            9/10

Cheers

Tyler

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Ok Miller Lite is probably one of the most well known light beers in the world it used it have the number one spot until Bud Light beat it down to number 2. With a combination of TV commercials, advertising, celebrity endorsements and a market saturation plan that made even the most jaded marketing directors in the world scream enough until there throat were raw and voices gone. Then Bud went ahead anyway since no one was saying anything anymore. Miller Lite has a pretty interesting history to it was pretty much the first light beer to hit the markets, originally called Gablinger Diet Beer and no I didn’t make that up. Which then became Meister Brau Lite in the 1960’s, Miller re-launched the brand as Lite beer from Miller in 1973 in certain areas. The Miller Lite name came around shortly after and was heavily marketed with celebrity endorsements and trying to get a Macho Man presence to it. It’s a %4.0 Pilsner style lager, for a light beer it isn’t bad and has a clean crisp taste. It’s really refreshing on a hot day but this being Canada and the first blizzard of the year is currently hitting us in Ottawa it still makes you wish summer were still here. It is really carbonated I’ve found and takes forever to go flat so that’s a bonus. Nothing in this beer really stood out taste wise so test it out and see for your self.

Country:          United States of America

Type:               Lager

Alcohol:          %4.0

Rating:            6/10

Cheers

Tyler

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PS youtube some of the old commercials on this and bud light they are fricken hilarious

I said I would never review bud the contest is an out its more of a story but this is the best one sent for the contest Congrats again Robert.

Hi Here is my entry for the 50 for 50 contest

I first tried Budweiser when I was at a party in High School a friend of mine’s brother was over 21 so he got us some. Everyone seemed to like it except me so I figured I just didn’t like beer. During my first year of college I was again offered beer but it was Coor’s and I really liked it, after a while I tried a Bud again and still didn’t like it. I’ve always wondered what beer would taste like after being passed through a body at least twice before it was bottle and packed in a truck and shipped across the continent. I have always wondered why so many people can be so wrong and have something so bad that I have a huge deep down fear for the fate of the human race. I’ve been told that it’s not very popular outside America and that makes me feel a little better about it but than again I remember we voted Bush in twice and he only had to hit a big red reset button by accident. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to drink it.

Thanks reading this.

Robert

New York, New York

Ok I’ve always liked TsingTao but I’ve always had 1 small problem with it. For some reason it gives me the worst gas I’ve ever had. I always try to have it when I make or order Chinese food since it fits. I’ve been told it has a hint of lemons to its taste but I like Kim Chi and other spicy foods so I’ve never been able to notice it. What I do notice is that it’s a %4.5 lager with a bit of a hoppy taste and a slightly bitter finish. It goes well with Chinese food and most North American foods also I have found that I don’t like the combination with General Tao chicken not sure why they are both good on there own but together I don’t like the taste but that’s just me I checked. It’s brewed by the Qingdao Brewery in Shandong province. Originally a German owned brewery to brew traditional beer for westerners in the country at the time it was taken by the Japanese during WWI, after Japan’s defeat in WWII it was turned over to a Chinese family which was involved with it under the German’s. It was nationalized in 1949 by the People’s Republic of China. In the early 90’s it was again privatized Anheuser-Busch currently owns approximately %27 of TsingTao; so in short for a German brewery in China that became a Japanese brewery in China. That became a Chinese family brewery in China which became a Communist State run brewery in China. Which is now a privately run brewery in China that is partially owned by a German company again that also has %7 owned by a Japanese brewery Asahi in China.(Asahi is in Japan but I am keeping the flow)

They brew pretty good beer I am the recipe over the years has changed and it would have to with that many captains at the helm but overall the results are good it tastes definitely like an Asian beer but you can tell it has roots in European brewing methods.

Country:          China

Type:               Lager

Alcohol:          %4.5

Rating:            7/10

Cheers

Tyler

Barside Beer Reviews

Steam whistle is a %5.0 pilsener that is brewed by the Steam Whistle brewing company in Toronto, Ontario, at the historic roundhouse. The roundhouse is where many of the steam engines that helped conquer the prairies and Rocky mountains. Steam Whistler only brews one beer and one beer alone. There slogan is we do one thing really well and they do this is a quite refreshing beer with a good crisp and clean taste; with no real aftertaste. Overall it is a good beer, that goes well with BBQ's and it is a great cottage beer.

Country: Canada

Type: Pilsener

Alcohol: %5.0

Rating: 9/10

Cheers

Tyler

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