Last Updated on December 19, 2012 by stevehoggbikefitting.com
Click here for a definition of Porter. Zywiec (pronounced zzhh iv ee ets) is a strong Polish Baltic Porter. At 9.5% and having read the Porter link above, I think most beer connoisseurs would call this a stout. Without worrying too much about hair splitting definitions, this is our beer of the month. Summer has passed, the weather is cooling and the humidity is dropping, so it is time for dark beers to reappear at our regular Friday night knees up. Mind you, the attendees are all cyclists, so half a glass and most are ready for bed.
Zywiec Porter is a very good example of a dark beer. The mouth feel is smooth, velvety and heavy, with strong, dry, very dark chocolate taste and pleasing bitterness on the finish. It is beer of the month for two reasons. It is an outstanding beer and it is half the price of any beer of remotely the same quality and strength.
Look for it and help boost the Polish export economy.
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I love this stuff – good call!
Craig
G’day Craig,
A pleasure to meet someone who appreciates ‘real’ beer.
Hi Steve
In the six pack of beers you kindly gave me there was a couple of these.
Whilst cooking dinner tonight and getting up close to the wood stove, it’s a real winter blast here, I decide to sample one of these. I was really delicious and I cant remember the last time I enjoyed a dark beer so much. Admittedly I don’t think I could of handled the other one as I was feeling very jovial indeed after just one. When I read on the bottle it was 9.5% I was not surprised or should I say I was a bit relieved as I thought “I’m half pissed on one beer”. Any way I am saving the other one for some special occasion, maybe if Cadel wins a stage at the Le Tour.
Cheers
Tony
G’day Tony,
I’m glad that you liked it! Oh, and you had better drink the other one as Cadel just won Stage 4!
Hi Steve
Yes I see that he has. I will have to wait until the “Sun passes the yard arm” as I don’t want to be asleep on the couch by 10 am.
G’day Tony,
Here’s hoping that this is Cadel’s year!