What was confusing for everyone for the matches on Sunday is that the Beer Competition followed the Football Competition (Germany v England, Argentina v Mexico).
Well there was no such confusion on Monday when we had Denmark v Italy and Portugal v Honduras.
First up was Portugal (Super Bock) against Honduras (sub Cristal from Cuba). Regular blog readers will know my views on Portugese beer by now. As it happened, we thought the Super Bock had more flavour than the Cristal but the flavour it had wasn't as nice. Result - Honduras 4, Portugal 3. Honduras are through to fight another day, and goodbye Super Bock.
The big match was Denmark (Elephant) against Italy (Peroni, one of our old standby favourites). The mouth feel and slight sweetness of Elephant, presumably from its high alcohol content, managed to edge the Peroni. 5-4.
I see from Wikipedia (so it must be true) that Elephant counts as a "strong lager" rather than a "lager". Is it really eligible for this competition? We try to have a level playing field (no stouts, bitter or banana beer...) and maybe we haven't quite managed it this time. However, Mike did find something on the Internet that he used to persuade me that Elephant was a legitimate entry. I will post it if I can find it. But it is a bit of a slippery slope, as I recall that Cote D'Ivoire (Flag) is more than 6%. So would we have to disqualify Flag (which we wouldn't as the choice of beers available in the UK from Cote D'Ivoire is strangely limited.)? Flag competes today against Alhambra, but it should win as I don't think we have the best Alhambra beer.
So only one more day of R16 then onto the quarter finals on the week end. The football will be competing big time with the tennis. However, if Serena Williams gets through on Saturday then I fully expect her match to be completed well before the afternoon football!
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