100 Beers in 100 Days - Guest Speaker

Day 29 - Asahi Super Dry Beer

Today Beer Heads we find ourselves in Tokyo Japan. We also have the below special guest speaker to talk about Asahi Dry Beer.

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Day 28 - Tsingtao (pronounced ching-dow)



Today the beer odyssey brings us to the Shandong (pronounced wang-dong) region of China to try Tsingtao Beer. Tsingtao Beer is a super happy golden lager. It is made from people who have been up the Yellow River (or at least once in the 80's, but they did not like it). It has a faint smell of Beijing smog with a flavor that is as cheap as Chinese made merchandise. It was an average lager where all the ancient Chinese brewing secrets were obviously discarded in the making of this beer. I will rate it a 5 on the beer scale. [insert gong sound here]

So now bow to your sensei and then go drink a few with your friends at Humor-Blogs.com

100 Beers in 100 Days - A Brewski For My Comrades

Day 27 - Red East Beer

We continue our beer odyssey in Russia today with Red East Beer. After tasting some pretty good stuff in small countries like Lithuania, and Czech Republic, I was somewhat surprised at just how crappy this beer is. It's merely a 4 on the beer scale. I didn't much like the taste, but I did like how it looked in the glass. So here it is for you to admire also.

So now go drink a few brewski's with all of your comrades at Humor-Blogs.com

100 Beers in 100 Days - Day 26

Baltika Porter



Today beer heads we head to the other side of the "Iron Curtain" to the edge of the Russian Siberia to the city formerly known as Leningrad, which was the city formerly known as Petrograd, which was the city formerly known as Saint Petersburg, and incidentally now has it's origianl name of Saint Petersburg again. Baltika Porter is a nice heavy dark beer with a lot of great flavor. Iron Chef said it was very robust and had a slight fruity flavor. We both like it and I will rate it a 6 on the beer scale.

So now go tie one on with all of your comrades at Humor-Blogs.com

100 Beers in 100 Days - Bet This Is Good With Chicken

Day 25 - Obolon Magnat Ale



Ladies and Gentlemen, we have officially entered the Eastern Hemisphere as the Beer Odyssey brings us to the Ukrainian city of Kiev.

The Obolon Brewery is very young by brewery standards as it has only been in operation since 1980. This brewery that draws it's water from an artesian well made history when it became the first company in the Ukraine to escape the grip of government control to become privatized.

Iron Chef was unavailable to taste test this one with me so I brought in my friend (lets call him) Icehouse to help review. Hey, this guy can drink a 24 pack and not be phased, he's gotta be a beer professional. We both thought the smell was a little Bud-like, but we immediately liked the taste and smoothness. Icehouse said he could drink a case of it and definitely not be disappointed, and I thought it was much more worthy of being called a prestigious beer than Beck's or Heiny. Obolon Magnat Ale is a really good beer. As far as the specific taste, see "Day 24 - Kalnapilis". The interesting thing about this beer is that it's packaged in the beer bottle equivalent of a mood ring because the label changes color with temperature. This way you know the beer is properly chilled when the "Obolon" on the label magically appears, which I think is pretty cool even though it's already been done with Coors. We liked it and will rate it a 7 on the beer scale.