Beer Saturday: tasting two African beers

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

Since I quit my regular Saturday upvote giveaway series, I have more time to post about what I want on this day and after some time again, I´m happy to come with a contribution to one of the oldest and most popular regular initiatives on Hive and that´s the Beer Saturday run by @detlev.

It may actually seem a bit weird that I post about beer so rarely, considering that I come from the Czech Republic aka "the beer capital of the world" and a country that holds a number of beer related primacies such as the world´s largest beer consumption per capita, the world´s largest number of breweries per capita, having some of the oldest and most popular beers in the world etc.

Moreover, just like a vast majority of my Czech fellows, I´m a big fan of beer indeed and I drink this iconic beverage, well, let´s say quite often :D But the thing is that unlike many of my Czech fellows, I´m not a beer gourmet :) My friends often make fun of me for not having a beer taste and thus liking all beers equally and they are actually kind of right :D When it comes to beer, I´m definitely not picky. That might be good for me as I can easily enjoy even beers that many others wouldn´t but on the other hand, that´s probably the reason why I cannot really write about beer very often as the reviews would all be very similar and boring :D

So why am I writing about beer this time? Well, because I recently tried some beers that I´m pretty sure many people from the Beer community of Hive haven´t tasted yet! As those who check out my blog regularly know, I recently visited Zanzibar, an amazing archipelago that is a part of the East African country called Tanzania. During our time on Zanzibar, I got to try two local beers. Actually, to be 100% correct, I should say African beers because just one those two was from Tanzania and the other one was from the Republic of South Africa.

Let´s start with the Tanzanian one. It´s called Kilimanjaro and it looks like this.

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Now as I already mentioned, I don´t do these elaborate beer reviews where people describe the taste of the beer in several long paragraphs. All I can say about Kilimanjaro is that it was not bad :D But as I just said, I usually like my beer, no matter what brand it is, so the "not bad" review coming from me actually means that most beer fans wouldn´t probably like it at all :D The label said the beer had 4.5% of alcohol but it actually felt like much less. It was quite watery and I couldn´t feel any significant taste or flavor in it. But like always on Zanzibar, the weather was super hot that day so I just chugged it and thought: "Hmm, not really good but not so bad either".

The other beer that I tried on Zanzibar was Savanna Dry. Here is my picture of it. Pretty cool composition, isn´t it? ;)

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This beer was really good. I mean by my standards. That means that even some real beer gourmets might actually like it while some others probably not. Savanna Dry contains 6% of alcohol and it does feel like that. The taste was really full with some nice fruit notes. The place where I got this beer looked amazing too. It was at this lovely little restaurant at the end of the wooden pier :)

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We ordered some cocktails too. It was our last night before going home. Sweet memories :)

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So yeah, that was my little contribution to the Beer Saturday. Hope you enjoyed it :) Maybe I should also mention the prices of the beers. As far as I remember, Kilimanjaro was some 3 USD but I had that beer at a pretty expensive beach bar, I guess it can be cheaper at some other places. Not really sure about the price of Savanna but I think it was something like 5 USD. In my country, beer is still super cheap (you can get a decent beer in the supermarket here for as little as 0.50 USD) but I know that beer is much more expensive almost everywhere in the world so I was not really surprised about the prices.

So that´s it I guess. Thanks for your attention guys and thanks @detlev for running this legendary beer series. It was a pleasure to come up with a post for your community and I hope to make some more soon. As one of my beer loving friends says: "Beer you soon!" :)

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