Beer Tasting 🍺 Beery Greetings 🍺 From Berlin and Paris

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2025-12-20 22:09

Hello, beer lovers! 🍻

How are you doing on these winter days as the holidays and celebrations begin?
It seems perfect for #beersaturday, already the 442nd in a row. Let's get started!

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To avoid any misunderstanding, if you have read the title and seen the first picture, I was not there; Berlin and Paris came to me a few weeks ago, and today is obviously the day when I will open these two cans and share the flavors with you.

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I got both beers in the Kalea Beer Box, but I couldn't find the brewery's origin anywhere. The only thing I managed to find out is that it's the company's own series Kalea GMBH, based in Salzburg, which distributes beer gift packs and is contract-brewed as tourist souvenirs from the aforementioned cities. Both beers have probably never seen Paris or Berlin :)

Beery Greetings From Berlin

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The beer is golden, with average foam that quickly dissipates. It does not have any particular aroma. It goes down smoothly, and I first taste a slight sweetness of malt and the flavor of fresh bread, a hint of caramel, followed by hints of bitterness that linger in the aftertaste for a while, while everything else disappears.

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Helles lager, a smooth, juicy beer, 5.1% ABV, IBU N/A, very drinkable, I agree that it is suitable as a tourist gift, at least for beer lovers.

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Wine and spirits are also available as gifts, especially at airports.

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Beery Greetings From Paris

I don't know what to write here, because this beer is the same as the previous one.
A solid Helles lager, 5.1% ABV, just with a different label design.

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I think the idea of selling beer as a tourist souvenir from a specific city is fine, but... but, considering that I've tried many different beers in my life, I know that beers from Berlin are different from beers from Paris, and simply packaging the same beer in a can with a different name doesn't seem like the best idea to me.
I'm not one to judge, but the guys and girls from Kalea could do it better and more authentically.

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However, this beer is very drinkable and tasty, there is no doubt about that, at least not for me. I drank both of them and if I had another can from the Beery Greetings series from some other city, I would definitely continue, haha.

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And what am I listening to when writing this and tasting beer? Something from Friday's #newtunes, new songs after twenty years.

Black Eyes - Tom Tom