Estrella Damm

Brewed by Damm
Style: Pale Lager
Barcelona, Spain

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Pours a pale yellow with a small head. Aroma of stanky hops, unfermented wort sweetness and grain. The taste is sweet and nasty. Tastes like spent grain and the dust on to of the grain when sparging. Gross.

Clear, really pale yellow with a modest white head. There’s actually some lacing and a bit of head retention. Aroma of grain, corn flakes, grass and slight citrus. The taste is slightly citrusy and on the sweet side of the style, yet a touch bitter at the back of the palate. Light-medium bodied with no real skunk, finishes dry and a little bitter. All in all, pleasantly surprised at its decency.

Lager espanhola bem simples, refrescante e suave. Uma Lager sem muita personalidade, mas melhor do que as populares. Porém o custo-benefício não convém, por isso não dê muita importância para ela.

I ended up drinking this several times on a short visit to Barcelona this week. I’ve tasted many inferior macro beers but it is still a shame to see a large city of Barcelona’s class, so utterly dominated by one mediochre beer brand.

Bottle (330ml):
As I had anticipated, this one is very light on the nose with very little in the way of a noticeable aroma. There is however a faint grassy hops aroma and a slight bit of grain with hints of a skunky aroma. There is a light touch of citrus throughout although not a lot else.
Clear & pale looking yellow straw colour with a thin bubbly, white lacing for a head. This settles to a very fine lacing around the surface, mainly sticking to the circumference of the glass though.
Very much a lager here with the usual hops and a mild citrus flavour in the background. There is a sticky, sweetness towards the end and a bit of skunk too but again, not a lot else.
Quite light and smooth with a gassy, strongly carbonated feel to it. Not great on the palate, acceptable at best probably.

A pretty typical pale lager with not a lot going for it other than it goes down fairly easily. There is a skunky flavour lurking in the background throughout this beer and it wasn’t great although it wasn’t exactly offence on the taste buds either. Still not one that I would buy again though.

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Dry and refreshing taste, well balanced, reminds me of when I worked in Spain years ago, version I had was only 4.6%

One of the best ones you can find in Spain (spanish ones) it’s not much to say but...

AROMA:some slight citrussy hops. and a hint of malt APPEARANCE: pale yellow with a frosty white head TASTE: slightly salty similar to tsing tao. Very light bitterness and malt characteristics PALATE:thin bodied with good carbonation. head lasts, and laces. OVERALL: a very generic lage beer better left on the shelf, or drank after a long jog for hydration. Just barely a beer.

Just poured it into my glass and I can already smell the skunk. Pours a clear light golden color with a thick white head. Aroma is your typical international lager style smell. Malts, hops, skunk, etc. Flavor is the same. Nothing impressive what so ever.