Estrella Damm

Light, fizzy Barcelona lager. A little hoppy bitterness. Pleasant and probably good with food, but mostly forgettable on its own. Like that pub you used to go to once in a while - what was its name again?

Bottle from Capone’s. Pale gold pour with 1-finger, fizzy white head. Aroma of hopcitrus, slight honey, apricot, and thiols. Weak palate with flavor notes of hopcitrus, and grainy pale malt.

Pale lager. Clean, dry aroma. Flavour is smooth and fresh but lacks a little of the flavour offered by the "Classic" version of this beer. It’s a little dry and bitter but overall easy to drink and leaves a slightly fruity/sweet aftertaste.

Yellow and very little carbonation. Medium body with a gentle if uninspiring flavour. A thirst quencher on a hot day and nothing else.

Typically pale lager. Nothing to add here, exept that this beer tastes a bit metallic and bitter.

@Bluebottle, Crystal Palace., London Weak, pale lager. Metallic taste, pine nose - not one for the memory.

Good god what was I thinking! I tried this YEARS ago and I didn’t like it then so what made me think i’d like it now...nothing I suppose, it’s another rate.....how sad is that? Anyway, in case you hadn’t gathered, this is awful!

The epitomal location, location, location beer in the way this would go down a treat in the Summer months, in a club in Barcelona. Here, the dead of winter, not so much. But bring on Summer and two-stroke lawn-mowers on a Sunday morning, mmm lager!!! It sparkles, is translucent, is a pale gold, no surprises. Head is a flabby, soapy white mess that legs well. Run-of-the-mill, dry, grainy and grassy, herbal nose that is tainted by vegetal notes. Quite thin yet precision engineered in delivery in the mouth. Bitter, grassy hops play, feint dusty pale grains compliment, very little sweetness, no drawing adjunct notes to bother the discerning. Palate is delicate, fast in pace, very clean and crisp on the swallow with just a little sourness and drained sweetness residing to remind you you are having a beer. It has a job to do, it is nothing it is not, a taste for Summer. (4.6% ABV, 33cL, no date stamp, Liquorland Beechboro)