Cruzcampo Gran Reserva 1904

Brewed by Grupo Cruzcampo (Heineken España)
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Sevilla, Spain

Serve in Dimpled mug, Footed Pilsner, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle from a local supermarket. It pours a hazy light brown liquid with small white bubbly head. It smells of roasted sweet malt, with a little caramel, ripe fruit, wood and lightly of hops. The taste is strongly malted, medium sweet and a little bitter as well as lightly alcoholic. It is mildly carbonated, with medium body and oily texture. It finishes lightly bitter and dry. A good cellar-matured premium lager; worth tasting it. Nice presentation: elegant bottle and crown cap.

Pours orange brown colour with a decent light tan head. Far malty sweet caramel aroma. Malty taste, medium sweetness, lightly bitter and the alcohol level make itself present at the end of the tongue and the palate. Light body, oily feel, average carbonation and a short light dry bitter after taste.

02-SEP-2010, bottle on Mallorca:) Beautifull bottle:) I am rating the content though - and that is nothing special - perhaps ratebeer should incorporate bottle rating in the score...? OK clean strong lager. For a spanish beer this is not so bad. I guess I rated this too low since there is nothing wrong with it?

330 ml. bottle, gift from Spain. Amber color, small quick disappearing head. Almost no aroma, maybe hints of fruit. Flat taste hints of malt, herbs, with long bitter finish. Bad beer.

Bottle (Spain), Pours orange golden, sweet malty cornish aroma. Better than their pilsner.

Uncommon wooden-brown colour, transparent, no bubbles, weak flat head. Very matly, slightly yeasty-citric smell. Fresh and dry. Hints of pepper. Malty palate with very subtle caramel and coffee. Refreshing, watery with little bitterness. Dry finish with no sweetness. A pilsener trying to be more, nothing surprising but quite interesting for the Spanish market.

orange golden, sooth white head. Aroma:strong malty and mild hoppy flowery, caramelly note. sour woody note. flavor is mild sweet, bitter , wood, fruity notes, bitter caramel. ends quite bitter caramel, bitter fruty. a very dry, woody, faint sweet fro fruits beer. alc seems stronger than it is. quite delicate, but also a litttle too boozy.

Solita solfa, in Spagna le birre buone non sanno proprio che cosa siano, che forma abbiano e come si fanno.

Nice crisp beer with slightly elevated alcohol content. Easily drinkable. Average, by far not a classic.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear golden coloured with a small white head. Malty aroma of grass, tea and hops. Malty flavour of grass, hops, caramel and liquorice. Hoppy finish.