Becks Vier v Peroni Nastro Azzurro

Becks Vier

Style- Pale Lager

ABV- 4%, hance the Vier

Price- Around £2.90 a pint

Originated- Bremen, Germany


Peroni

Style- Lager

ABV- 4.7%

Price- around £3 per pint

Originated- Vigevano, Italy

Overview
Our first tie not to feature a beer from the colonies, it is a tete-a-tete between too bastions of the Olde Worlde, Deutchsland and Italia. This is Becks second offering of this round, a recently introduced four percenter, launched, no doubt, to placate the Health Nazis crusade against stronger beers. It manages to do this without compromising any quality, and if on an all dayer, this brew will assist you to "Keep your head in the game" instead of the gutter. Representing the boot, is Peroni, a lager that owes it's high recognition in Blighty to the numerous Pizzeria and Trattorie Ristorante up and down the country. This is with good reason, as an ice cold Azzurro is just about the perfect compliment to any pasta dish, pizza, or most especially meatballs served at the most excellent Cafe Candia. Mmmmmmmmm Meatballs......

Odds
Can Becks, which had not one, but two brews qualify for the last sixteen be left unrepresented in the quarter finals? I fear it may well be the case. Becks Regular was stuffed, in what can most politely be called an irregular ballot, by Corona, something of a surprise result. But what about it's younger, lower alcohol content sibling? I like the Vier, but let's be honest, it is no real match for Peroni. Or is it? Over to you, the voters.