Beer that's good for your health? If only George Best knew! (Grudziadzkie Dobre Piwo)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Grudziadzkie Dobre Piwo
Date:	22/10/08 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty "organic" beer that's more or less the same price as any other

Disadvantages: None really

Grudziadzkie Dobre Piwo is a Polish beer from Grudziadz and does not necessarily translate to "Good beer" but rather "Healthy beer", this is at least the angle of promotion it uses. The beer hasn't really caught on abroad yet, although the brewery is owned by Carlsberg, so it may follow suit. It's not particularly well known in Poland either, it would be hard to find it in your average off-license or supermarket but one place where it does occasionally turn up is amongst the beer sections of health food shops, businesses which are taking off as people become slightly obsessed with health.

They basically use an age-old recipe and process to create this non-pasteurised beer with yeast, potassium and salts claiming to be good sources of Vitamin B and helping clean kidneys, improve the nervous system and last but not least "stimulate the gastrointestinal system" (this to me sounds like biological jargon for sending you to the khazi) and having already experienced that with Kunter Mocny (a beer made by the same brewery), I did wonder what I was in for.

Despite all this fan dangled speech, the beer poured fairly normally - there was not a great deal of carbonation, it was a dark golden colour with a little bit of head. The beer tasted quite fresh, hmm I like this age old process I thought to myself and in fact it seemed crisp and to go down well for a 6.8% lager, a feat which may be down to the lack of any chemical process.

Summary: Good lager