Five Spot: European Beer
Posted: July 9th, 2009 | Author: CLS | Filed under: 5 Spot | Tags: beer, Carlsberg, European, Kronenberg 1664, Peroni, Stella Artois, Zywiec | 4 Comments »
By CLS
While Heineken and Guinness have held the distinction of being Europe’s most famous beers for decades, this does not necessarily mean that they are the finest. This continent is renowned for its cuisine and wine, yet it also produces many of the finest lagers, stouts, and ales served the world over.
Although an exercise in subjective opinion, here are Scribe Culture’s top five favorite European beers:
5. Zywiec
Originally a brewery founded by ruling members of the Hapsburg Empire during the pinnacle of their empire in the mid-nineteenth century, ?ywiec was nationalized by the communist Polish government following WWII. Although Poles received the short end of the stick, ideologically speaking, during the Cold War, at least they had subsidized beer such as this to drink away the pain.
