Zlaty Bazant rules!

Apologies for the delayed post. We have been busy celebrating Mike's birthday and preparing for a little trip to Spain. Sadly, we will be flying back from Spain when the Football World Cup final is on. It would have been fun to have seen the football final in Spain. Bet our friends will be doing their best to persuade us to stay!

So we know who the football finalists are. But which beer is sitting in the Boxbeck fridge, awaiting its match with Denmark (Elephant)?

Well, it's none other than my favourite, Slovakia (Zlaty Bazant)! It faced off against Mexico (Bohemia) on Wednesday. On the tasting, I was surprised that Mexico made it to the final. It just shows that lagers basically all taste the same and it's down to your mood on the day. So Zlaty Bazant was the easy winner.

We have found out that Zlaty Bazant is now only available in tins, rather than bottles. How disappointing. We had been planning to stock up (once we've worked our way through all of our losers, which will take months, if not years).

Of course, some if you will be anxiously awaiting the match for 3rd place (France (Kronenbourg) vs Mexico (Bohemia)). But, guess what, we won't have any 3rd place play off. What's the point? They've lost! You don't get the losing Wimbledon semi finalists playing off for 3rd place, do you? So you will never hear it from us how Kronenbourg matches up head to head with Bohemia. You will just have to try it yourself..

The blog will be a little quiet now until the Beer Final. And after that we will publish a post about how and where we sourced our beers in case any one wants to emulate our competition for the Euros or next World Cup. We might even have a post on Quilmes (seems they are a football team as well as a beer. What a great combination), to try to win our free beer from the Other World Cup Beer Competition.

Hasta luego!