Estrella Damm

Another fine Spanish beer from my recent trip to Barcelona, and again from the Catalan Damm Brewery comes Estrella Damm (4.6% abv). I really enjoyed this beer whilst sitting in the sun eating a magnificent tapas meal. I hadn’t even heard of this beer which I would describe as a light bodied, full flavoured pilsner but I was thoroughly impressed, and the beer is an official sponsor of various sailing races! Bonus. Once again as with Bock Damm Negro Munich, the beer has its own iconic website. This one provides a timeline which claims the beer has survived for three centuries? You can have a look at the website here. I recommend people to look up and give this beer a try; it’s a great summer lager.

Bock Damm

Bock Damm Negra Munich (5.4% abv) is a dark lager from Spain’s Damm Brewery. I picked up this can from a Spar Express just off Le Parle’l in the red light district of Barcelona! The beer leans more towards an American dark lager than the Munich lager it aspires to be, and the initial taste is of roast flavours although this passes through to mild bitterness and a really thin body. It also has a slight carbonic bite to it and is quite gassy. The website for this beer is slightly comical, and claims that you must drink the beer in a ceramic stein etc, and has pictures of Munich circa 1888. Overall this is a very peculiar beer and my first Spanish beer experience…. Lets hope that the rest are as unusual and interesting.
Oh yeah, the official website is: http://www.bockdamm.com/