Beer 137 - Poker

We spent the day exploring the Sugar Cane Museum about 60 km east of Cali on the road to Buga.  (see http://www.srhx15.blogspot.com/ for more details) After The Sugar Cane museum we went looking for a restaurant in the town of Ginebra which has become famous in the last 15 years for a dish called Sancocho.  Sancocho is a broth made from potatoes, herbs (the most important of which is Cimarron) and a mature hen that has roamed the hen coop.  Battery bred chicken do not give the same flavor.  The dish must be cooked over a wooden fire because the smoke adds to the flavor.

Most of the restaurants in Ginebra were closed on Monday.  We spied 10 or 12 restaurants that each had seating for a large number of people in country garden settings.  Apparently, all of the customers for these restaurants come from Cali on Saturdays and Sundays for a family day out to eat Sancocho.  Fortunately we found the Restaurant El Jordan on the outskirts of town - on the Costa Rica road - open on Monday and they offered Sancocho on their menu. Perhaps because of the time of day as well as because it was Monday we (Patricia, Mama Leny, Lucero, Manuel Jose and I) were the only customers in the restaurant that would comfortably seat 100 people.

As before the beer is brewed by Bavaria S.A. in Bogota, Colombia

There was no additional information on the bottle other than an advertisement for a Poker beer draw in which you must submit four bottle caps to enter and a suggestion that the beer be drunk at 4 deg C.  After tasting the beer I will not be collecting four bottle caps.

This beer had a little more taste that Poker Ligera, but not much.  Even though the taste of Sancocho is a subtle mix of light flavors, the food completely overwhelmed the beer.   There was lots of fizz and little taste.  This beer joins Poker Ligera at the bottom of the list of my favorite Colombian beers.