Estrella Damm

Brewed by Damm
Style: Pale Lager
Barcelona, Spain

500mL can from the LCBO. There was such a staggering amount of this stuff at the store I found it at, I was actually stunned. The LCBO must be one of Spain’s single biggest importers by now, I’m serious. Anyways this thing poured out a pale yellow with a large white fluff, looking highly carbonated. Upon first whiff I get a ton of TIN and metallic hops on top of some corn husks and adjuncty suspiciousness, as well as some wet-dog awfulness. The flavour is mercifully brief, an okay blend of corny malts and minor hoppy dryness, and salt? Weird. Quite fizzy and fleeting on the palate. The flavour is actually far superior to the weird and generally not pleasant aroma. Well I guess it’s somehow important that I got to try a Spanish beer, though I doubt this is the best the country has to offer.

500 ml can from the LCBO. pours pale yellow with a rocky white cap and excellent retention. aroma is of sweet grainy malts and floral hopping. thin rice malt body with more hops then i was expecting. a tin bitter finish. unremarkable lager that would do in most pale lager situations. spain tick!!

Pours a nice pale golden yellow colorwith a thin white head and lots of carbonation. Aroma is very clean, some citrus and straw, but also some pale lager mainstays like corn. Flavor is the same, very clean, if a little on the bitter side. Not bad, not great, just a pale lager.

What’s this? A bright red 500 mL Can to get the bull all PO? It looked like a little matador’s cape rolled up there on the shelf when I picked it up. Visually this is one of the better I’ve seen with a frothy head that settles to a thin but tenacious foamy film that laces the sides of the glass beautifully over that pale clear straw body. In all of its other aspects, it echoes the lyrics of an old Trooper tune: "You looked a whole lot better to me From twenty feet away You’re just a 3 dressed up as a 9 You’re only, wastin’ my time". Aroma is corn, floral, and earth with a mustiness about it. flavor is predominently corn and steamed rice and an astringent corn husk aftertaste; not that pleasant. No olés for this wimpy thing.

Pours gold with white head. Smell is yeasty and malty. Taste is yeasty, sweet and malty with a very light bitterness. Mostly a sweet and yeasty pale lager, and not as crisp and dry as I like. Thin body and prickly carbonation. Drinkable, but there are pale lagers I like quite a bit better.

can: How cheery to see that over produced macro lagers made by overly large & bland macro brewing companies is also alive and well in Spain as well. Who drinks this? Why would the LCBO even import this swill? Completely chilled this beer has almost no flavour (I guess this is an accomplishment). . . and has almost no colour (yikes). As it slightly warms it has flavour . . but not the kind you want. Brutal.

BORING!! wow, this is easily Spain’s answer to Macro crap lager. Lawnmower beer, I would only drink it is there was nothing else around. meh.

Aparência: espuma inicial média e irregular, cor branca e excelente formação de colarinho. Aroma levemente lupulado, floral, com toques de mel. Sabor inicial levemente doce e amargo. Sabor final levemente doce e moderadamente amargo. Média duração. corpo leve, textura aguada, carbonatação forte e final metálico.