These are the best supermarket beers for Basqueland Brewing

Two tourists go to San Sebastián and set up a brewery … craft. The story of Basqueland Brewing It starts out almost like a joke – within the Spanish humorous tradition – but it is very serious. Ben Rozzi and Kevin Patrick They are the North Americans behind this great little brewery that, since its founding in 2015, have won many national and international awards.

In their catalog they include IPA beers West Coast style (American, of course) under the sonorous name of Unstoppable O Light warehouse, -a German lager style, pale in color, and a complex flavor- as Santa Clara.

“We are guys who had a great time experimenting with hops,” explains Rozzi, founder of the winner a best brewer in the world at Beer Challenge from Barcelona.

We wanted to put this pope of craft beer in a bind: Is there any salvageable industrial beer? “I believe a lot in drinking this type of beers, more industrial, in the original cities where they have been produced. I never drink one Heineken in Spain, but yes in Amsterdam. If I am, for example, in Copenhagen, I may take more than one Carlsberg“.

Within Spain, these are his three favorites:

Estrella Galicia

“I sincerely believe that Estrella Galicia makes very good beers. If you taste their lager, you appreciate a more than correct flavor. I think it has to do with the fact that it is kept in very good condition at the points of sale, avoiding oxidation that can be a problem for these industrial beers. ”

Mahou Five Stars

“This is a good lager to drink if you are in Madrid, a city where there are places where beer is poured very well. If you are lucky enough to find yourself in one of them, where, in addition, the tap is properly clean, it is almost certain that you are going to have a fresh beer with a good flavor “, explains Rozzi.

The virgin

Rozzi greatly respects what La Virgen does, which started out as a small brewery in Madrid but now belongs to the multinational Ab inBev and can now be found in practically any supermarket. “They recently sent us a case of their German-style Helles Lager beer that tastes great.”

But if Rozzi is good at something, it’s predicting, like a fortune-teller, where the tastes of the beer consumer are going to go. The North American considers that “there is still a lot of room for growth within the consumption of IPAS, whether they are West Coast style, double IPAS or cloudy & rdquor ;.

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As for the styles that are not yet so common in Spain and that he believes will have an increasing weight in the coming years, he points to “those varieties of sour beer, but lots of fruit, which are proliferating in the United States.

The interesting thing about these beers is that I think they will be able to attract a new audience that may not be so interested in the classic flavors & rdquor ;, he says. For now, at Basqueland Brewing, they have already moved in that direction with beers such as Concrete Jungle, a DDH IPA with tropical aromas with hints of citrus o Juice, a Hazy IPA in which the exotic fruit notes also surprise. If the best brewery in the world goes out there, it will be & mldr;