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What we want to say is that, odd as it sounds, in just three years, Valladolid offers a new ideal partner for roast suckling lamb : five craft beers that ferment in the bottle and do not have added carbon, of those that do not psh when opening but pop !. And as a bonus, we are also talking about a beer from Palencia and a French beer at the same time.
Everything is good for the convent. Single house . Valladolid. One of the best assets of Casasola beer is how easy it is to fall in love with it if you go to visit it. You can see her being born and growing up on a farm owned by Benedictine monks four kilometers from Valladolid , on the Villabáñez road. The Perdomo-Spinola brothers, Agustín and Alfonso, passionate about craft beer, explain the whole process to you and show you their five thousand-liter fermentation tanks each with the pride of someone who shows off the recently painted children's room.
Trained in the breweries of northern Italy, they grow most of their ingredients on their 16th century estate in which cereal, malting barley, potato, alfalfa, an organic garden, horses and one of the last herds of churro suckling lamb in Spain coexist. Although they are continually creating new varieties and poised to grow in production, its star so far is the Casasola Silos , a partially filtered toasted beer, so that sediments remain in the glass, with four malts whose sweetness comes from honey from the Esgueva valley and in which pepper and nutmeg are also found. Yes, all these things are reminiscent of a good wine and who says that they cannot accompany a roast just as well.
Casasola, born on a farm owned by Benedictine monks
Three continents in one bottle. The Milan. Montemayor de Pililla. La Milana Bonita is the protagonist among the beers from Cerveceros Artesanos de Castilla y León, which also produces Wheat and Toast. It is complex to make and not so easy to drink. It is made with three types of malt, oat flakes and five kinds of hops that give it a lot of nuances. For example, among the hops, you start with the Slovenian vovec, which gives it a lot of bitterness. After cooking, the other four hops are added, including one American and one from New Zealand. Flavors from three continents and all this, bottled in a town of about a thousand inhabitants and in what was a grain ship.
Three continents in a bottled beer in Montemayor de Pililla
A blonde in a castle. Crazy Joan. Iscar. Crazy Juana lives in a castle. Íscar's main tourist attraction is also the place where the beer that broke ground in 2010 with an image and a flavor that added rarity after rarity to something that had not been seen before in these lands. For example: the label itself recommends drink it with a slice of orange . The beer itself is an unpasteurized and unfiltered lager, low fermentation, in the style of Keller beer, with a complicated German production, a bitterness index of 30 and a small production that allows all this to be achieved by putting a lot of care into each bottle.
This blonde is created in the castle of Íscar
Bavaria in Tierra de Pinares. Lüge. Matapozuelos. Matapozuelos is a peculiar town. With only a thousand inhabitants, it has had for decades a zoo where lions and giraffes moved between the pines and has one of the most promising restaurants in the province, the apothecary , in which Miguel Ángel de la Cruz has brought to his father's veteran grill the products of the surroundings (such as pineapple and medicinal herbs) and has given them a twist. Now, Matapozuelos also brews its own beer, the light, which is located in an old fabric house and is part of a complex with a restaurant (** El Lienzero **) and a rural house. Lüge, which means truffle in German, has three perfectly Germanic varieties **(governed by the German purity law) ** in the middle of Tierra de Pinares: a golden lager, another pale and a wheat lager, very citrusy and with a certain reminiscence of banana. Jesús, the promoter, boasts of making his own 5,000 liters of beer.
In the Casa Rural El Lienzero Lüge is born
Embitter as a goal. The keys of Saint Peter. San Pedro de Latarce. If a beer with 30 ibus is very bitter, the one from Las Llaves de San Pedro ups the ante to 50. It is one of those drinks that are not born to be liked by everyone, but as soon as he catches a drinker he doesn't let go , because you won't find many similar beers. The brand's story begins with home trials, a brewing trip to Belgium, an initial successful sale in a medieval market, and a final leap into the commercialization of a drink that, generous bitterness aside, it is made in the indian style (with a lot of hops so that it is better preserved in boat trips) , it has aromas of exotic fruits and mango and flavor of apricot. All this makes it worth giving this beer a try: maybe it's yours.
*Palentino bonus: motorcycles for beer. Bresañ. Becerril de Campos (Palencia). Bresañ means “make beer” in Breton dialect. Its promoter, Christophe Le Galles, worked at the Renault factory in Palencia, but came from a family with a brewing tradition in France and Belgium for four generations. Five years ago he decided to make his own beer, using the yeasts inherited from his grandfather . His goal is to try to reduce the bitterness of Spanish craft beers. To make their toasted and blond Bresañ and their Maricantana Le Galles He has had to sell part of his motorcycle collection, with examples from the Second World War. He is the one who sums up the spirit of these Castilian beers: he thinks that in a place where they are capable of appreciating wine it cannot be very difficult to instill a beer culture that distances itself from industrial brands.
As soon as it catches a drinker, the keys of San Pedro do not let go