Beer Tasting: Lovelly stout from Catalonia

This weekend I decided to try a Catalan stout called Guineu Montserrat, which I bought about a week ago at my favourite shop in Barcelona – La Cerveteca. The text on the bottle is in Spanish (or maybe Catalan, I don’t remember right now) but my video podcast collegue Johan from our video show FemKommaNoll.TV sent me a link to a blog post about this beer. But it still felt like a wildcard…

So how was this beer? In the scent I noticed citrus fruit but also a hint of smoke. The head was pretty powerful initally and the colour was beige. The fruit comes through in the flavour as well but here I get smoke and a really nice bitterness from the hops. The hop flavour reminds me a bit about Dark Hops (which we tried in the latest episode of FemKommaNoll.TV) but more mellow.

It has a lot of flavours but it’s still a well balanced beer. I will definitely buyt this one again, I love it! And I’m looking forward to trying to all of the other beers from Guineu.

I’m beginning to understand that Catalonia is the Mecca of craft beer in Spain. It just takes some efford to get your hands on the actual beer. Good thing I’m stubborn as hell…

//Tomas

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