Where’s the Greek Beer?
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | Beer, Breweries
The wife and I are heading to Greece in May and I am pretty excited about it. We plan to start in Athens and then head to a few of the islands. Naturally, I’ve been searching the intertubes for Greece’s best beer. It turns out beer doesn’t have much of a presence in Greece, beyond the lagers of major international brands like Heineken and Amstel. Greece is more of a wine country (I’ll manage), but they do have a few breweries on the side. Mythos is one such brewery, although they do not fair to well on BeerAdvocate. Searching for craft and microbrews I found only one establishment in the entire country, the aptly named Craft Microbrewery. At least I won’t have to make any choices, right? Actually, all the reviews I’ve read for Craft have been glowing, so we’ll definitely be stopping by when in Athens for our one beer related excursion.
Cheers,
Chris
5 Comments to Where’s the Greek Beer?
[...] blogging during that time. Erik will keep the blog train going when I’m gone. I previously wrote about the lack of Greek beer, but I do hope to visit the one craft brewery Greece has to offer. At the very least there will [...]
robAugust 8, 2009
Contrary to your reviews of Craft lagers and beers,I found them excellent but a little expensive.
You didnt really expect to find a proper pub in Greece,
did you?
I’d hoped to find a proper pub, but I didn’t expect anything. I agree with your expensive analysis and didn’t find the Craft beers bad, just not particularly good.
My husband and I visited Greece last November and totally fell in love with Zeos and Blue Mak which is micro brew from Argos. It isn’t widely available but it is outstanding beer. Check out their website to see where you can get it.
Thanks for the tip Jo. I never came across any of that when I was there, but I would have tried it if I had.
Cheers,
Chris
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