Hello, Hive friends. We've reached week 406 of the fun BeerSaturday Challenge promoted by our dear friend @detlev in the delicious and unparalleled #Beer community! The challenge is super simple. You just have to publish a post talking about your favorite beers, their flavors, their history and even what experience or activities you do while drinking your birras or curdas as we say in Venezuela. This time, I would like to invite my great friend @oacevedo who I know loves beers to join this initiative.

In Venezuela, my country, the vacation period starts this Saturday for Holy Week and one of the customs of these dates is to go to the beach. So before the beaches are full of tourists from other states and not a soul enters its waters, and as the beach is relatively close to me, I took my things and went to the sea to bathe in the delicious waters of the Caribbean Sea.

And of course, beach is synonymous with beer. So as soon as I arrived, I ordered a Zulia. Zulia beer is immediately recognizable by its green bottle and is one of the oldest beers in Venezuela. According to its official website it was created in 1929, in Maracaibo, the capital of the state of Zulia, hence its name.

Zulia beer is a Pilsen type beer, golden in color, with mild flavors and bitterness, strong hop aroma and soft foam. Its bright green bottle serves to protect the flavors and quality of the product.

Its ingredients are water, pure malted barley, hops and stabilizers. Its net content is 222ml. It has 4.5 GL and normally has a value of 0.60$ in liquor stores and supermarkets, although in the beach kiosks they sold each beer for 0.84$ or one dollar.

The sun was strong and I was thirsty. At the beach, to protect us from the sun there is nothing like using a good sunscreen and for thirst, there is nothing like drinking a cold beer.

There is a poem by Federico García Lorca entitled Romance Sonámbulo, in which the first verse says: “Verde que te quiero verde” (Green I love you green) and it is an ode to the color green, to nature and to life. So, what better way to celebrate green, than drinking a Zulia beer, the one with the bright green bottle and facing the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea.