0,33 l can from a Bazaar supermarket at Kos. Brewed for Bepoukas. Clear golden with an one finger white head. Thin grainy malty aroma, some citrus. Low grainy taste, hints of malt, increasing cardboard. Cheap stuff.

American style amber ale (or red ale) by an industrial brewery in Atalanti on the Greek mainland; from tap at RedKokkino beerhouse in Agia Galini, Crete. Thick and frothy, cobweb-lacing, pale yellowish beige, large-bubbled, breaking head on a clear pure and deep orange-glowing reddish-amber beer. Aroma of biscuit, unsalted peanuts, dried apricot, dried thyme, hint of Betterfood, dried orange peel to even vague bergamot, old honey, some onsetting oxidation. Sweet (even slightly sugary) onset but clean and sleek, hints of dried peach, red apple and apricot perhaps but non-estery with minerally carbonation effect; smooth but rather thinnish biscuity and caramelly malt sweet middle with very mildly toasty-bitterish edge, paired with a late herbal hoppiness, providing some gentle bitterness – malt and residual sugars sweetness remains, however, dominant. A faint whiff of orange peel passes by too. Very clean, slick red ‘ale’ – in fact I am wondering if this is really an ale, it felt rather lager-like, in which case this beer is to be reclassified as a Wiener, I guess… Anyway: in a village in the south of Crete this was the only beer ‘other’ than bland industrial lager so a welcoming distraction – in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, as they say.

Can, 5.2%. Refreshing malty aroma. Clear golden colour. Good stable white head. The flavour is nicely malty. Good mouthfeel and low to medium bitterness. Slightly spicy hop aroma. Mellow.

Can. Pours clear light golden with airy but stable white head. Weak aroma of yeast and malt, with hoppy hints. Bitter, hoppy flavour with sweetish notes of malt and yeast. Estery and malty aftertaste with hoppy touches. Another pale lager, but not bad for the style.