Żywiec and 'friends'

It has been a little while between posts, but I do have good reason. I've been traveling and enjoying new bier adventures!

My latest adventure was to Poland, which generally is more known for it's wódka (vodka) than piwo (beer).

Whilst wódka was the drink of choice, I did enjoy a few piwo's as well. The above is the most popular and widespread of the Polish piwo, Żywiec.

Interestingly, this piwo brand was owned originally by the Habsburg familly, today Heineken has the rights to it.

This is not the first time I've had Żywiec, but it is the first time I will review it. Generally this gold lager has an earthy and hoppy fragrance that is matched by the flavour, with unfortunately is left lagging with a metallic aftertaste. Is good to be enjoyed on a hot day, but really doesn't have the quality, complexity or depth of other biers.

The piwo gets 3 steins in this case......

But the wódka gets 5 shot-glasses :-)
FYI, the wódka in this shot is as follows:
Copernicus
Wodka Zoladkowa Gorzka
Sliwowica (which isn't really wódka, but a plumb based spirit)
Balzams
Krupnik
Miodula Prezydencka

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