From the historic streets of Rome, we now venture to the similarly debt-riddled land of Spain. This looks a little bit like a hipster beer, because labels are too mainstream. Everything has been fused in to the glass, and is extremely hard to read. I am guessing this is because it wants to stay exclusive and underground.
The lager actually pours an orange colour, acting as more of an alternative act to your normal fizzy yellow euro beer. It's also at 6.4% making it more of a hardcore individual. Definitely hipster. It's almost as if someone has put an Arcade Fire demo tape and an old Broken Social Scene shirt in to a blender and poured it in to this bottle. I feel like I should be drinking this out of a knitted multicolour stubby holder that I found at the Salvo store. The taste, is actually not all that bad. Yes, it's watery and fizzy, but there is some considerable depth and the elevated alcohol is barely noticeable. It's bready and grainy and sweet, with a slightly bitter tingling finish.
While not an amazing beer, I would much rather this than a Stella or something of the ilk. It's very easy to wash down, and would be a dangerous session beer, but you also know that you are drinking a BEER. Not just some fizzy malt water that a lot of big European breweries serve up. One of the better big Spanish beers that I have experienced for sure. Let's just hope they don't sell out or become too popular...
6/10
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