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Mahou beer and the lone beer drinker... Posted by Andrew Chapman in New Products, 9:41am 24/08/2007. 
The first sunshine in goodness knows how many days saw the hot line between secret hollowed out volcano that is Surf4Wine HQ and the Chapman house come into immediate use. Mr C to Mrs C 'do you think we should have a Barbecue tonight?' 'Whatever' came back the cheery reply '... so long as you do the cooking'. Excellent me thinks I. But first things first... what to drink? (Funny how that is always the first thing on my mind... oh well) Well, Mrs. C. is currently not drinking, so what should a boy do for a drink for one? Opening a bottle for one seems a bit extreme mid-week. I could obviously chose NOT to drink it all and lave some for tomorrow, but as we are off to sunny Devon that didn't seem practical either. M'mmm... I know. Beer! But which beer to drink? Well, just arrived in the warehouse that very same afternoon were a clutch of new beers (See Andrew B's Blog post from yesterday). One in particular I had been keen to try ever since I saw it's reappearance on our beer suppliers list: Mahou beer from Spain. In fact, Mahou Five Star beeris Spain’s best selling domestic beer brand- don't say you don't learn something new with each Blog post ;). It was a staff as well as customer favourite when we last stocked it and it only disappeared from our list when we couldn't obtain anymore. Glad to see it back - but would it taste as good as I remembered?
I should have worried, Mahou **** lived up to expectations: Lovely crisp refreshing taste, not too heavy or gassy. Perfect for drinking while I watch the prawns on skewers gently turn fro pink to light gold. Went perfectly with the garlicky, lemony prawns - and didn't lave me with too much of a bad head next day (well, being a mid-week light-weight I only had a couple - it's no fun drinking alone!) Mahou beer from Spain available by the case @ £34.50 for 24 x 33cl
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2 comments
Posted by Ryan at 11:12am on 24/08/2007 Hey thanks for adding comments, I've really enjoyed having your voice online! Sadly I have to say I can't agree with your rating of this beer. One of the saddest excuses for a beer I've ever tasted. Oh and I've tasted a lot. Used to have a store with over 1200 labels. Tastes like corn, and has no hop character. OH well...Thanks for the other stuff. You should join our wineblogger group in Facebook! Or get on the WineblogAtlas map! We'd love to have more retailers participate! Cheers, Ryan
Posted by Andrew Chapman at 1:36pm on 24/08/2007 Ryan, thanks for the comments. Sounds to me like we need to have a Spanish beer tasting at some point - your place or ours? To be honest, we tend to have concentrated on New World imported beers until now, so Mahou is only our second listing, the first being Cruzcampo . What would you recommend we listed from Spain, if we can get it over here? Will definitely get ourselves re. Facebook and WineblogAtlas map. Advice on such things always appreciated as such new boys on the block. House rules - No advertising / spamming, or profanity. All comments are moderated and will not appear immediately.
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