Dreher Bak
As I often do, I went to a dodgy Hungarian supermarket and bought a bunch of local beers. the first cab off the rank was Dreher Bak (7.3% abv) which is a rich dark dunkel bock style beer. I have to say that this beer was delicious! It is a deep brown colour with delicate chocolate and coffee notes, minimal bitterness and a solid roast character. Breweries take note - this is how dark lager is supposed to taste!The upside of drinking such a strong beer has also got to be the warming effects of the alcohol which surely did help to dry me out after the terrible weather. The Hungarians are a little behind and I couldnt find a kooky website to go with this one, but I urge you all to seek it out.
posted by Tim at
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
6 Comments:
The website for the beer is here I believe.
Whilst on the website I found that they had an Alcohol Manifesto to promote their product in a responsible manner. This included as the first point:
To promote responsibility in the use of beverage alcohol, as part of a healthy lifestyle, while at the same time endeavouring to prevent alcohol misuse and abuse.
I assume all major producers of alcohol have a similar manifesto somewhere on their corporate webpages. However, it seems that we in England fail to take notice of this and continue to binge drink our way into world wide notoriety.
Can't say any of the beers I had in Hungary a couple of years ago were particularly memorable (although I did get through plenty of them!)
Interesting comments. More eastern european gems coming up during teh course of the week.
top beer, anyone know where to purchase in the uk?
a proper beer this, great with goulash soup etc,
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