For dinner today I enjoyed the Slovakian beer Zlatý Bazant. It's a not-bad typical central European lager. The beer has a light golden colour with a cream white head that last long but finally falls together to small spots of white floating on top of the glass. The nose has a light hint of straw along with hops and on the palate it has a good hoppy bitterness. Anyhow, it is fairly anonymous but not consequently bad. Is it a beer that makes life better? Hardly, but with it's 5,0 % abv it fills a good function as a thirst-quencher. Quite perfect a hot summer day!
The Name Zlatý Bazant translates to the Golden Pheasant and I'm not quite sure if it has anything to do with the beer but the pheasant is clearly visable on the label. Zlatý Bazant has been produced and brewed in the Slovakian town of Hurbanovo and has been done so since 1967. Since 1995 the company is under the wings of the Slovakian Heiniken.
As an anecdote it can be added that Zlatÿ Bazant was the first Czechoslovakian beer to be filled in a can. Anyhow, today it is mainly tapped in half litre bottles priced as a medium price international lager.
Having spent the last couple of days studying one of my lights in the dark has been music. Don't mss out on the Swedish-Iranian blues singing american resident Jasmine Kara. Her songs In the Basement and Try My Love Again are wonderful.
So long
Lucas Spinnars
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