Beers Of The Americas vs Sausages - Part 1 of 4

Hello, good evening and welcome......to Beers Of The Americas versus Sausages. A selfless quest to find the north/central/south American beer that is best to drink if you're eating sausages. We gathered eight beers and devised our usual over-complicated scoring system, as follows:

Flavour - how does it taste? Gorgeous? Foul? Or somewhere in between. Scored up to 10
Head - A frothy top makes a beer look nicer, obvs. Up to 5
Alcohol By Volume - simply put, the punchier the beer the more points they score
Looks - Does the bottle itself get your tastebuds tingling? Up to 5
Value for money - the flavour score, divided by the cost of the beer. So.....if the beer scores high for flavour and is very cheap, this score will rocket. Alternatively if the beer scores low for flavour but is expensive....not many points.
It's Personal - a new category, allowing judges to add some personal vitriol or lurve to one of the beers, for ANY reason, scoring minus five or plus five, or something in between.
Beer/Sausage/Combo Factor (BSCF) - Does the beer go down well with sausage? Essential category. Up to 5
Gas - Is this beer too gassy, thus reducing sausage eating time and satisfaction? Between 2 and -2

Got all that? Good. Maximum score is......hold on......add that to that..... divide by your shoe size.....errrm, carry the seven......oh who cares, on with the testing!

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Number 1 - Argentina

Flavour - Sweet. Sparky. More-ish. Enjoyed it. First up is always a tough draw of course. Especially with their strained relationship with us Englanders. 7

Head - Rubbish! 0.5

ABV 4.9

Looks - Blue and white stripes just like their flag. Not in its favour. 1.25

VFM - 4.40

It's Personal - Drama with one judge immediately playing their It's Personal card, and it's a score of -5! Reason - it's "The Falklands" not "Las Malvinas".

BSCF - 2.75

Gas - 0

Website Quilmes

Total 15.80

Seems a little on the low side, how will this benchmark stand up to the tests ahead?

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Number 2 - Mexico

Flavour - More "ale-y" than lager. Kinda like a wheat beer. 7.5

Head - Good head is always enjoyable, but any head is better than none. 3.5

ABV 4.5

Looks - A weird figure is depicted on the label. Is it a Mexican superhero? Or a member of the Gladiators team? Looks like he has a sanitary towel over his mouth. Odd. 1.25

VFM - 3.77

It's Personal - No vote.

BSCF - 3.5

Gas - 1.5

Website Cucapa

Total 24.52

Well ahead of the Argies, and Mexico takes an early lead....two beers down, six to go, and the tasting team are bearing up well!

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Leaderboard

1 - Mexico 24.52

2 - Argentina 15.80

Sausages Versus Beers Of The Americas - Preview

As John Anderson used to bellow on Gladiators...."Contenders READY". The beers of the Americas have been sourced and on Friday we will be going beyond the call of duty and testing which of them works best with sausages. As always, it's a tough job but someone has to do it. On this occasion I will be joined by my rather hot girlie, for her first foray into this dangerous business.

We are open for suggestions for the scoring system, complicated is good....

What a handsome line-up. Feast your eyes upon this west-of-the-Atlantic hangover-in-waiting....

Cucapa Clasica (Mexico) and Cubanero Fuerte (Cuba)

Brahma (Brazil) and Brooklyn Insulated (USA)

Sleeman Honey Brown (Canada) and Quilmes (Argentina)

Banks Caribbean (Barbados) and Cusquena (Peru)

All beers were found at the world's best shop, Beers Of Europe near beautiful downtown King's Lynn. The spirit of Oliver Reed walks the aisles....

What Is The Best "Beer Of The Americas" For Sausages?

Do you remember when we found the best European beer to drink with sausages?  Glad you do, I can't remember a thing after Ethiopia.....


We're doing it again, but this time we're testing beers from north and south America.  We've gathered beers from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala and Cuba, and battle will be joined soon....

The scoring categories are:

Alcohol By Volume – Is it a potent brew?  One point per one percent

Flavour – How does it taste?  0 (liquid poop) to 10 (nectar).

Looks – Includes the beer in the glass, the bottle, and cap.  From 0 (Widdecombe) to 5 (Kirsty from The Woolpack).

Head – Good head or over too soon?  From 0 to 5.

Beer/Sausage Compliment Factor (BSCF) – Match made in heaven or George & Mildred?  From 0 to 5.

Would a fugitive Great Train Robber enjoy this more than a Fosters? – Yes +2, no -2.

Price – Taking £5 as a price I would consider waaay too much for a beer, the score is “5 minus Actual cost”.

Are their football team a bunch of handballing World Cup cheats?  No +1, Yes -15.

Let battle commence!  Check back here in a couple of weeks time for the results, the photos, and the backstage gossip.