M&S Spanish Lager Review By Cerveza El Prat Del Llobregat Brewery | Authentic Spanish Lager Review
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Very smart move this from M&S. As someone with family from Madrid, nothing pisses me off more than the ‘Madri Soul of Madrid’ nonsense brewed in Burton-on-Trent. Definitely will be picking a lot of these up
Totally agree👍
Still haven't quite figured out how that slipped past trade descriptions 🤣
Because it dose not say spannish on bottle @tobyjackman3212
It is brewed at the Estrella Damm brewery, Barcelona. Thanks for posting the video.
Had a 6 pack of that at the weekend (6 x330ml cans £7.00) Good idea by M&S to state so boldly and obviously on the can that this is an authentic Spanish brewed lager.Good easy drinking beer that went down a treat on the first proper hot weekend of the year
M&S seem to take their beers a lot more seriously than the other supermarkets. The German lager and Czech Pilsner are both good. I'll definitely be picking this Spanish one up
Nothing says sand,sea and sunshine like burton on trent. 😎🏝️
Burton On Trent says quality English beer at its very best. Unfortunately a lot of trash is brewed in Burton too.
I know the feeling I only live over the county border. Swadlincote. I don't drink Crapling I meant Carling.
The return of Señor. Simón Martinez !!!
Salud Amigo !!! 🇪🇦 🍺
The latest in ASDA is Cruzcampo Savilla. What does that suggest; brewed in Saville? NO; on the back it said brewed by Carlsberg here in UK, on Asda's website it states Heineken (same). Got extracts in it of malt and hops.
"Born in Sevilla under the heat of the Andalusian sun; the perfect, crisp refreshment. That was Cruzcampo back in 1904 and that is Cruzcampo now. Every beer that comes from our brewery is a joyful celebration of our city.
"Cruzcampo inspires you to embrace the Sevillian way. Because life is better when you are free to enjoy the moment. You don’t have to be Andalusian to enjoy the taste of Sevilla. With Cruzcampo, we will take you there."
What a load of row locks.
If I'm in M&S I'll have a look for this El Prat stuff (not the best of names for the British Market, but hey.)
That’s why pubs are so empty. Who can afford £7 a pint? Off to M&S to grab some of these! Cheers mate 👍
We need a Spanish Lager battle review video now, M&S v Victoria Malaga v Estrella Damm v Estrella Galicia
Thanks to Simon I now check the back of the bottle of any lager I buy. With only a couple of exceptions if it says brewed under license in the UK it's going back on the shelf....UK brewed lager for the mist part is awful....
Don't be fooled by the words " Brewed under Licence". The licence is just to use the name.
One of my local greene king pubs had Estrella Galicia on draight and it was lovely. Don’t even touch Madri or Moretti, it’s shite!
I'm sat here drinking some now. 6 (330 ml) pack was £7. So much better than the UK brewed so called Spanish lager.
The rumour about Madri is that it's just Coors Light with extra hop extract. Read an article online. On a side note, this Spanish lager is potentially a watered down version on Estrella Damm and not as good value as you might think as it costs the same as that beer. Same brewery in Barcelona.
This sounds like great news. Next time I'm over, I'm definitely buying some of this M&S Spanish brewed lager.
I have a feeling that'll be a rebranded bottle of Estrella lager Si. El Prat De Lobregat is the area that the Barcelona airport sits in and the Estrella brewery is just next door to it, same abv too from memory
Estrella damn is 5.4%
It’s complicated further by the fact that even the Spanish brewed beers like Mahou or Estrella Damm brew weaker versions for the UK market then export them. You’ll find they’re both over 5% abv in Spain
Since the government introduced variable tax bases on alcohol content, most price sensitive drinks have had to lower the alcohol content. Just go into a supermarket and check the lower priced big brand or own brand wines. Many have dropped by 2 -3% ABV.
Last year, there was a big increase in cider duty and retailers had to dump stock before the deadline. 6.6% at £1 per bottle to be replaced by 5% at £2.25 per bottle.
San miguel is actually a Filipino beer!! xx
& Carling is Canadian
Couldn’t agree more Simon. I think it should be outlawed personally. From an ASA perspective it’s misleading. If these big brewers are selling ‘Spanish’ or ‘Italian’ beer, it should be brewed in said country. If they’re brewing in the UK, then it should be billed as Spanish or Italian ‘Style’. All their commercials are so misleading as they show these continental landscapes/scenes, with small (brewed in the UK) text at the bottom. Thankfully I’m clued up so know which ones to avoid and which ones truly are Spanish or Italian.
It's FRAUD.
Seems like false advertising doesnt it
@@stankmiester101 It's fraud - passing something off for what it is not.
While lager markets in trouble then isn't it as there's no way half of them are brewed in the German style.
If only we had some sort of _trade descriptions act_
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Unfortunately even the stuff brewed in Spain is still watered down for the uk market 😔 the stuff you get in Spain is usually around 5.4% for esterella, San Miguel etc.
There’s a different between ‘watered down’ and brewing a different beer for a different market isn’t there?
@@andrewsteer8860 Probably but I think we all know the reason why it’s been brewed differently for the UK market (tax).
True, in Malaga a couple of weeks ago Galicia was 5.5%
@@Willsandi No, stupid Brits accept it, so the brewers take the p*ss and water the beer down without watering down the price. Brits are mugs for accepting it, and making excuses, e.g. "it's the tax"
Alhambra Especial is a great beer at around 5.2%. Can't get it everywhere but Tesco and Majestic Wine stock it.
You should have mentioned the Spanish brewed Rosa Blanca ! 👍
Lovely beer. Really like it. M&S beer range now is so good, and really like how they use a great range of brewers. Will buy a lot more of this!!
Wahey! We get 20% at Marks and Sparks because my daughter works there.......the German and Czech ones are great too. I will have to load up
Same here , & she will get me a few tomorrow 😀
Picked up a couple bottles if this this evening and it’s a really nice beer. So smooth and goes down really nicely. Thanks for the review and recommendation. 🍻
I like Spanish beer... in Spain. 33 celsius... Alhambra, Estrella Galicia and Cruzcampo Especial always goes down well.
Hi Simon, love your channel. Just a quick point about a majority of the continetal beers brewed under licence in the UK, they are brewed with GLUCOSE SYRUP. As a diabetic this is very dangerous for me and a practice that the public should be more aware of. Breweries claim that all that the glucose is turned to alcohol. Apologies if you have disscussed this issue before.
& it's also 🤢
thanks for the tip off man, great find
I think they might be getting that from Damm as El Prat de llobregat is right by the airport in Barcelona. One thing I'd say about the other beers imported from Spain is they aren't the same beer. For example Estrella Damm in Spain is 5.4% and here 4.6% it really upsets me that so many beers are dropping their ABV for tax reasons. Great review though. I'll give it a try.
Cruzcampo Seville... brewed in the Uk.
The Spanish version is dogshite as well to be fair😂..
I really love Spain and their beers and even their food. I would live there if I could 🇪🇦
Not after Brexit you can't!
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@@alexy8520yes you can
Brexshit has made that a reality 😵💫
i like the M&S Spanish beer, also, i had the Belgium one last night and can recommend that over English stella. marketing, as we have discussed before is a very clever thing, you only need to look at the old Carlsberg rebranding, madri, id like to think that somewhere an M&S marketing chap is sat at his computer viewing all the beer related articles on RUclips, like your one, has come to realise that us British proper beer drinkers would rather have the authentic beer from the country its made in, hes then come up with the idea of a plain tin/bottle with only the country name as logo then small print about the brewery. as you say, the cost landed and on the shelf is a lot lower than the uk pap, no brainer.
love your videos and im constantly annoying my mates in the pub with my finger head descriptions.
A good workaround for some Spanish lagers to ensure you still get Spanish brewed and the correct ABV is to get the gluten free versions - San Miguel, Estrella Galicia and Daura Damm rather than Estrella Damm. All the GF versions are still 5.4% and taste much better. This issue also affects Italian lagers, with Moretti and Peroni suffering the same fate (GF Peroni is still brewed in Italy).
For a basic Spanish Lager, I go with Estrella Galicia (5.5%) or Estrella Damm (5.4%). Both are always available and very inexpensive in the supermarkets here in Spain. I just bought a six-pack of cans of Estrella Damm for less than 5€!
Cheers, Si. Not much of a lager fan myself - and being a bit of a snob, I wouldn't normally consider anything that isn't German or Czech - but really enjoying these continental reviews. Went to Bulgaria last month, and apparently they've got Madri there now as well. Tasted ever so slightly better than the UK variety, but still pretty rubbish.
So you drank Madri in Bulgaria and it tasted slightly better than the UK version?
It's only brewed in the UK.
@billybungle1757 🤣🤣
The cat was just glad you removed that bottle of Molson Coors🤮 pissvasser. I'm gonna try the MnS one today.. cheers 🍻
Looks like iam off to M&S later 👍🌞🍺
Had some at the weekend, lovely drop. Think it’s brewed by Estrella Damm, the cans are 7 quid for 6 330ml.
It always makes me laugh when my mates say “how much was that can of craft beer your drinking?” and I say “erm it was about £4” and they say “how much??? Bloody hell!” and then they go and buy a pint of Madri for £6 😂😂😂
I noticed that they also had a Czech Pilsner 5% abv. Smaller bottle. I didn’t dabble on this occasion as I just wanted to give this a good sample, but may try some of that next time, as I love my Czech beers.
All these bears start to taste the same when they’re brewed over here. I remember Asahi was not being imported anymore but being brewed by Shepard Neame, it tasted nothing like it anymore.
The best lager in the supermarket is Menabrea, which I believe is still imported.
Great review and interesting to know the options. Didn't realise there are that many choices for Spanish beers (or fake Spanish beers) in the UK
I once heard that the smaller the bubble, the better the beer! Not many people know that.
Plenty of subscribers to this channel do! He says it in every video.
@@chill_5076you're pulling my leg!
@@justinhamilton497watch a few mate😂
@@justinhamilton497
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just spotted a new spanish beer in Aldi - called Grande and brewed in Spain am going to try them later
Aldi have a new one called grande Spanish larger that’s brewed in Spain 1.99 per bottle 4.6%. 660ml. Maybe put it up against the m&s one. Good review as always mate👍👍
Funnily enough I saw this on the shelf today. I'm not often in m&s. I saw it and I immediately thought 'Spanish larger my foot' knowing about what's going on in Burton. (And being from the Midlands I don't by any stretch not enjoy beer from that part of the world). But my second thought was to have a closer look, but I was distracted. I'll be back again soon to buy a few bottles to try. My mates Mrs is Spanish
Also worth mentioning that Victoria Malaga is authentically Spanish, and was reviewed here by Simon. More importantly, it is currently on offer in Lidl (600ml bottles @£1.99) and Home Bargains (6 x 330ml cans @£5.95)
Not great like drinking a bag of white rice same as estrella damn better going for estrella Galicia or Alhambra San Miguel or mahou if you want Spanish lager
Yeah if it wasn't awful it would be great
will try that Spanish beer the next time I am in Marks . Would you please try and get a hold of some Innis and Gunn brewed in Edinburgh would love to see what you think of that 😉.🏴🏴
I've tried M&S lagers, ipa's etc but i think i will now.
I cant remember what it was called but i got some nice bottles of spanish lager in lidl the other week. It was imported and it had the spanish flag on it, 4x330ml in brown bottles
Estrella Galicia
San Miguel is actually from Philippines 🇵🇭 always associated with Spain 🇪🇸 but not,probably like carling black label English 🏴 but it’s original was Canada 🇨🇦
I Googled the brewery the M&S Spanish lager is from. All the results came back about Estrella Damm.
So it’s basically the same beer just with a different badge.
Not sure if mentioned already but I'm pretty sure that brewery is actually the Estrella Damm brewery, at least their visitor web site lists it as being there.
I like many people have been conned by the British breweries I bought a case of Kronenbourg 1664
only to find out it's brewed in Manchester by Heineken not Obernai (France)
I hate the way the writing on the bottles is in Spanish or German or french (Belgium)
But the beers are brewed in the UK it should clearly state on the front of the bottle brewed in the UK
Birra Moretti is a typical example even with advertising showing Italian people drinking it although it's brewed in Manchester by Heineken
Sadly you have to do a bit of homework but usually the German and Belgian beers are brewed in their native countries but even everyone's first taste of German beer Becks is now brewed in the UK
I have tried your recommendations before Paulineer wheat beer being one (excellent by the way so smooth) and I will be buying this when I visit Marks and Spencers later
Funnily enough I walked past this beer thinking it was a bottle of red wine
It's fraud, mate. They are passing their products off for something that they are not.
Cruzcampo is the other Spanish lager brewed in the UK, having said that the Spanish stuff not the best. Not to mention the fake Italians now - Moretti and Poretti
Watching this on train home. Now via M&S 😉
Sounds a hell of a lot like it’s come from the Estrella Damm brewery in El Prat and a clever smokescreen to confuse the everyday beer drinker! But at least it’s not from burton and if it’s got Simon’s seal of approval I can’t wait to give it a try!
Good review! Many thanks.
El Prat is a suburb of Barcelona, by the way.
What a lager tremendous
What's also overlooked is the mark up these big breweries are making in flogging an inferior/fake product that they no longer have to import. Corona for instance no longer has to be imported all the way from Mexico, but the price hasn't gone down exponentially.
Estrella galacia is a cracking lager
Stick to ESB or Harveys, can't go wrong!
It’s very good indeed
Great review as normal Simon from the comments might be worth doing a comparison with Estrella Damm as there is theory that they are the same beer .
I think it's shocking that the non Spanish breweries can get away with his deception. I remember drinking Estrella for the first time in Barcelona. Loved it and always preferred it to St Miguel but both were good in Spain..
Cruzcampo san miguel and madri are poor in my opinion but this is m+s i like there beer in general got to be worth a try
It’s the same with the Italian beers as well most of them are made in the uk part from Peroni
£7?! And in Wales?! Mental...
I'll be giving this beer a go
Have a great summer break Simon. I picked up a couple of these from M&S today. To be honest I was not impressed? It seemed to be a little bland? I Love M&S English lager which at 0.1% less abv IMO has more flavour, not to mention their German larger which is my favourite of theirs. But each to their own. Enjoy your break!!
Watching you always makes me want a cold Lager! If your in The Hertfodshire area ill but you a draught "Victoria" at my local ! Cheers!
The four Spanish bottles are all around £2.50-£3.00 a bottle in supermarkets, 3 for £6.00 at the moment.
I remember san Miguel used to taste a lot better than it does today.
Couldn't taste much _worse_
Yes. Beats all that uk brewed trash.
I was in Spain, la coruna last week, where they brew estrella galacia. My gosh that's a lovely drop with a tapas or two.
The brewery is next to the airport in Barcelona. Not too far from the main Estrella Damn brewery.
I was in a club around the time Madri was launched. I was amazed how many people came up to the bar and ordered a pint of Madri, the group next to me did seem to think they were back on holiday in Spain. I was drinking Sharps Atlantic at the time which in itself isn’t the beer it once was. Its just not about the purported image and then finding out that many beers don’t come from the countries that they imply, although I think its outrageous how they con people. The beers that imply that they are from, Spain, Italy, France or Germany just do not taste like the real thing. Ironiclally Camden brewery and Brewdog beers who make no such outrageous claims taste closer to real continental beers. Why is this important aside from the aspect of the con, two things, quality and taste, isn’t that what we expect when we hand over the bar £5 plus?
Great content, excellent points well made
My local convenience store only has these Uk brewed lagers that appear to be from all different countries with the only exception being tsyke which is polish and way better by comparison.
I actually thought that had fallen victim to the Burton on Trent treatment these days too?!? Or maybe I'm thinking of Lech.
It's certainly not as decent as it used to be anyway
@@tobyjackman3212 still proudly made and Poland and is a decent lager. I always check now after getting caught out with Staropramen.
Very nice cat cameo 😼
Mahou is decent and brewed in Spain
Agreed, sometimes available in the likes of Home Bargains for around a quid a bottle
@@jonbibby9755 Nice one, but thanks to a communist Scottish government we have minimum pricing on booze so it's about 1.50 for a 440ml can.
@@craigb2644 ah yes I have experienced the beer pricing during my time visiting Scotland. Still £1.50 a can isn't too bad for a fairly decent lager
Trying to push that new moretti sale de mare brewed in Uk !
M&S is really excelling with some of its own brand beers. If you can get over the hipster label snobbery, they are first class
Yep, i don't have £7 to spend on a pint either. I'll get myself to M&S for one of those instead.
Been saying it since its release, Madrí is Carling. Even on your original review. Its deplorable pint of lager.
Dying to try the M&S beer now!!
Madri is the worst beer I have tasted.
Thanks for educating us.
Nice beer this one but they’ve discontinued the ABK Helles.
Don’t think so
You paid £7.00 for a3.7 bitter,i get 2 pints abv 4.1 bitter for £6.40 with no adjunts
I can’t afford to go to the pub either . Prices are ridiculous and are killing the pub trade
M and s always puts on who brewed the beer for them. Them doing a Spanish lager is just them following a trend. It's basically Estrella damm
I like San Miguel.
The last four "Imported" beers that I bought were Stella, Becks, Heineken and Murphy's Stout. The first three cans had made in the USA 🇺🇸 on the can and I bought the Murphy's for St. Patrick's Day 🇮🇪 and the can said Edinburgh, Scotland. WTF 🐂💩
MORE CAT APPEARANCES PLEASE!!!
After some research i have discovered there is no El prat del llobregat brewery. It turns out el prat del llobregat is where Estrella Damm is brewed, so does that mean the M&S spanish lager is actually just Estrella Damm?
Nope, Estrella Damm doesn't have maize
Going to get some ready for the Champions League Final.
Simon also left out Cruzcampo !
Thanks
Thank you :-)
M&S sell quality beers now
The only brewery in that area is Damn, who make Estrella - objectively the single worst lager in Spain. This beer is 0.1% lower than Estrella. I'll reserve judgement until i try it. Estrella Galicia is the best of a bad bunch, and the actual Mallorca Hoppy Lager (not the 3.4% stuff we get here) is great for the price (60p for 330ml cans and a proper percentage over there, too).
Estrella cans are brewed in UK 😥
From the makers of Estrella damm, so basically a Spanish macro beer.
Im off to M&S
Deffo try that👍
El Prat Del Llobregat is the Estrella Damm brewery in Barcelona isn't it? Took about 10 seconds on google.
Why don't you set up your own RUclips channel, it's so easu, and I bet you would be ever so good at it......🤣
@@nigelwatson2750 I wouldn’t, I’d be dreadful, but if I was a self-proclaimed expert at anything then I’d at least do a couple of minutes research rather than expose my lazy ignorance.
The review would have had an entirely different spin if he knew it was from Estrella, he may have even done a comparison to the beer that he’d already got out and put on his bar and actually picked up during the review.
But he didn’t because he’d not even done less than 10 seconds of research. If he wants to be taken seriously then he should stop taking his viewers for mugs.
@@billywong78 If it's so easy, why don't you do it?
@@nigelwatson2750
Because I can earn more money doing things that don't rot my body.
Look, all I'm saying is that if Simon wants to be the place on youtube where people come for beer reviews then he could at least show his audience a bit of respect by doing even a basic amount of research. He held a bottle of Estrella Damm in this review and was totally obvious that it came out of the same building as the beer he was reviewing! Less than a minute on google would have told him that and would have changed his review.
@@billywong78 You're SO clever - that's what you want us to know