I’ve always loved beer and breweriana, and started to collect beer cans in the 1980’s. That was my first beer collection... but unfortunately cans tend to take up too much room and I had to quit collecting them in order to keep being accepted at home :-( Much later, in 2011, I started a new collection: beer labels and caps. By then I had created my own beer database as well, including my personal beer ratings, and had signed up to ratebeer.com, although it wasn’t until several years later, in 2015, when I started to use it as my daily beer tool and when I entered all my historical ratings as well. I love many beer styles, but my favorite ones are probably the American ale styles (APA) and some more traditional Belgian (specially witbier and dubbel) and English (Pale Ales and IPAs). I live in Madrid, and though Spain definitely does not have beer tradition, nowadays there is a spectacular spread of craft microbreweries. Besides, we already are starting to have some specialized beer stores that bring some of the best beer in the world near to us, the Spanish beer lovers. I’m very proud to be part of the amazing family of Beer Raters, and I’ll be very happy to learn from all of you, and even (why not) to help you to better know the Spanish incipient, but exciting, beer adventure. We are just beginners... but definitely passionate! Thank You Your friend, Javier. [ less ]

I’ve always loved beer and breweriana, and started to collect beer cans in the 1980’s. That was my first beer collection... but unfortunately cans tend to take up too much room and I had to quit collecting them in order to keep being accepted at home :-( Much later, in 2011, I started a new collection: beer labels and caps. By then I had created my own beer database as well, including my personal beer ratings, and had signed up to ratebeer.com, although it wasn’t until several years later,...
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