Tuesday 10 June 2014

Grekisk öl av hjärtans lust! ♥ Greek beers to one's heart's content!

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Hade tänkt skriva ett litet inlägg om "de 3 grekiska ölsorterna" och hade då Mythos, Fix samt Alfa i tankarna... :) Ja, haha, hade verkligen ingen aning om att det finns så många grekiska öl! Dessutom är Alfa inte ett grekiskt öl, utan ett holländskt som tillverkas i Grekland liksom Heineken, Amstel m.fl ölsorter.

De flesta sorterna tillverkas av små bryggerier med hjärta och lust! Jag hoppas ni blir inspirerade till att prova dessa, i många fall, lokala ölsorter (Rethymnon, Chania, Chios, Corfu, Santorini, Tinos, Euboea, Serres, Komotini, Messenia, Piraeus, Thessaloniki...) när ni är i Grekland!

I was going to write a small post about "the 3 Greek beers" and had Mythos, Fix and Alfa in my mind...:)

Well...I really had no idea there are so many Greek beers! And Alfa is not Greek as I thought, but a Dutch beer produced in Greece as well as Heineken, Amstel and many other foreign beers.

Most of these Greek beers are high quality beers brewed in small breweries (microbreweries) with heart and soul! I hope you'll get inspired to try these, in many cases, local beers (Crete, Chios, Corfu, Tinos, Santorini, Evvia, Peloponnese....)when you are in Greece!

BRINKS BEER
Brink's Blonde
Brink's Dark

Beers brewed in Rethymnon, Crete.


CHARMA CRETAN BEER
Microbrewery founded in Chania 2007.



Facebook: Charma Beer - Cretan Beer

CHIOS BEER
Fresh Chios Beer House Ale

Brewed at Kambos, Chios. If you happen to pass by their brewery they'll treat you a beer!

fb: Chios Beer

CORFU BEER
Corfu Beer Real Ale Bitter
Corfu Beer Real Ale Special
Corfu Beer Ionian Epos
Corfu Beer Royal Ionian Pilsner

Beers brewed at Corfu!


CRAFT BEER
Microbrewery founded in Athens 1997.
Craft Pilsner
Craft Red Ale
Craft Smoked Lager
Craft Weiss
Craft Athens Lager
Craft Black Lager

DELPHI BEER
Delphi Beer
Marea Beer

New beers soon brewed in Chalkida.

fb: Delphi Beer

DONKEY BEER, SANTORINI
Yellow Donkey, Red Donkey, Crazy Donkey...Beers brewed at Santorini!


fb: Santorini Brewing Company

FIX HELLAS
The first Greek beer, from 1846. The factory was closed some years, but since a couple of years it's on the market again. Brewed in Athens.
Blond lager
Dark Premium

fb: Fix Hellas Beer

HILLAS BEER
Hillas lager beer is brewed in Rhodope by Macedonian Thrace Brewery. This beer is made for export (US) and I guess it can not be found on the Greek market.
Vergina Beer (see further down) can be enjoyed in Greece by this brewery.

Facebook: Hillas Beer

MARATHON BEER
This Greek Lager is brewed by Athenian brewery since 1971 for export (US, Canada, Australia, Italy, Israel, France...).

MYTHOS BEER




fb: Mythos Beer

NEDA BEER
Neda Lager is brewed by a microbrewery in Messenia, Peloponnese since 2007.


Facebook: NEDA BEER - ΜΠΥΡΑ ΝΕΔΑ

NISSOS BEER
Made at the Cyclades microbrewery at Tinos island since 2012.
Nissos pilsner
(Can actually be enjoyed at the restaurant of the Acropolis museum! Also sold at AB supermarkets.)


Facebook: Nissos


PEIRAIKI BEER
Microbrewery founded in Piraeus 2005.
Peiraiki Lager
Peiraiki Pale Ale
Peiraiki Pils

PILS HELLAS & BLUE ISLAND BEER
Pils Hellas is brewed in Atalanti, Greece, since 1996.
Blue Island Beer is a new creation of EZA brewery.


Facebook: Pils Hellas



SEPTEM BEER
Microbrewery on Evvia/Euboea since 2009.
Monday's Pilsner
Thursday's Red Ale beer
Friday's Pale Ale
Saturday's Porter
Sunday's Honey Golden Ale
Winterdays Porter
Citra Single Hop Ipa (6,5 %)
Mary Rose Premium Red Ale (?)
                                                                  Facebook: Septem Microbrewery

THITA BEER
Brewed by Thessaliki microbrewery in Thessaloniki
Thita (Θήτα) Pilsner
Zita (Ζήτα) Lager
VERGINA BEER
Brewed in Komotini since 1998.
Vergina Premium
Vergina Weiss
Vergina Red


Facebook: Vergina Beer


VIOS 5 LAGER
The 1st beer in the world made of 5 cereals is brewed in Athens since 2011 by Athenian brewery. This brewery(since 1963) is brewing 28 famous brands of beer (Amstel, Heineken, Fischer, Buckler, Alfa, Sol, Erdinger...)for the market in Greece.


Facebook: ΒΙΟΣ 5 Five Cereal Beer


VOLKAN BEER
Brewed on Santorini since 2011.
Santorini Blonde
Santorini Black
Awarded at the International Beer Awards in Prague 2013.
(Member of "Greece Dept Free")                                                                                    Facebook: Volkan Beer

VOREIA BEER
Microbrewery in Serres
Voreia Pilsner
Voreia I.P.A (India Pale Ale)


Facebook: Voreia Beer


ZEOS BEER
Microbrewery on Peloponnese founded 1998.
Zeos Pilsner
Mak - Lager
Black Mak - Black weiss


Facebook: Zeos Brewing Company




Talented guys, "Bottle Boys",  making music with beer bottles:)...(just over 2 min video and it's Michael Jackson's Billie Jean!)


Have a great day! ☼

Credits
Corfu Beer picture from CorfuDirect.eu
Septem picture from in2life.gr

5 comments:

anitaskreta said...

Oj, jag hade ingen aning om att det fanns så många grekiska ölsorter! Xarma från Chania rekommenderar förstås jag. Jag skrev om den för ett litet tag sen. Den är såååå god!
Hälsn Anita

Steve said...

Oj, vad jag blev sugen på en grekiksk öl, eller är det kanske en öl i Grekland jag suktar efter. Här hemma finna bara Mythos och Fix att köpa. Jag visste inte att det finns så många grekiska ölsorter.

Unknown said...

@Anita
Kul! Letade reda på ditt inlägg och här kan ni som vill läsa vad Anita skriver om Charma lager, ölen från Chania: Kretensisk öl

@Steve
Vad roligt och bra att man kan köpa både Mythos och Fix på systembolaget i Sverige! Finns det alltid eller måste man beställa?
Som sagt, Steve, jag hade inte heller en aning om att det tillverkas så många olika öl här i Grekland!

Steve said...

De ligger i beställningssortimentet så man måste ha lite framförhållning om man vill ha grekisk öl.

Unknown said...

@Steve
Men det kan det vara värt! Verkligt goda öl! Ja hallå där hemma - ni kan alltså stödja Grekland genom att dricka god grekisk öl!!! :)
Ingen dum idé alls...