Was in Menorca a few weeks ago and the difference is night and day: Estrella Dame 5.4, Mahón 5.5, Cruz Campo 5.5, Estralla Galicia 5.5. Even putting the ABV aside, the originals were just lovely in comparison to the versions we get in the UK! My case was a lot heavier coming back!👌Great review as always, Simon!👍
Good Job Aldi I am fed up with these UK brewed beers pretending to be something else. Home Bargains is also a good choice for a selection of lagers brewed abroad and ones you typically don't find in the supermarkets.
Only just discovered your channel a week or so ago but really enjoying the videos, thanks for making them. Also been going back and looking at your older videos.
The San Miguel leaves a strange chemical bitterness on the side my tongue its 5% is about all I could say . The San Marcos was a pleasant drink ,no Warsteiner , but pleasant , smooth drinking , proper strength and cheap . Whats not to like ?
Hi Simon. Great review. Thanks for the recommendation. I bought a bottle of the San Marco a few days ago and really enjoyed it, it's very good. Definitely on the shopping list.
Couldn't believe it! When in the Netherlands recently I had a can of Grolsch at 5% percent - perfectly fine lager. Came back to the UK to find its sold at 3.4% strength! At this rate you can't even call it the same beer.
@@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE Pro tip, if you’re in the UK forget beer. Head to the nearest Aldi and hit the red wine aisle. Cheaper and you’ll actually get a buzz. The beer is so over priced and weak.
@@unusedsub3003 No thanks. I like red wine but I much prefer to drink beer, even cheap weak mass-produced lager. Minimum 8 cans an evening for me, so I like it light and refreshing, occasionally I'll treat myself to some nice 6-7% hoppy IPAs or Belgian Tripels.
Kronenburg being advertised on line from 2.99 to £3.59 for a 660 MLS bottle. Claiming still at 5% strength. The Aldi is a an outright winner for the money 💰
Used to quite like San Miguel but haven’t had one for over 5 years . Since then I have tended to go for smaller quantities of Imperial Stouts , Geuze , Rauchebiers etc as I now prefer taste over thirst quenching .
So glad to see Aldi being clever yet again by giving the consumer something better than the commercial ‘giants’ of blandness. Heineken, Carlsberg, Kronenberg, “I’m looking at you” - they are quite the devils work, horrid stuff indeed.
I bought one to try the other day because it's genuinely brewed in Spain... really rather nice. There was another similar one too but I haven't tried it yet.
I agree completely with your comments ,i got home late last night having been to the seaside for the day and so dashed into morrisons 10 minutes before they shut,i walked up and down the isle looking for something to drink and frankly gave up i then decided to buy some Guinness and a bottle of cooking johhny walker, never in the history of man has it been so difficult to buy something decent in a bottle or can for a reasonable amount of cash
I'm finding nearly all bottles in supermarkets far too expensive, I think they think, well its cheaper than you pay in a pub, so it's a bargain, which it definitely is not.
I went to my Sainsburys Local the other day, really fancied a lager and gave up as every single one was UK brewed and I don't want something that tastes like liquid coins
@@jamesgeorge8915 I would agree with decent but the prices have really pushed up the last couple of years, I’d rather pay the extra 20,30,40p and get a proper German brewed lager personally
Lidl do a dupe of San Miguel also. It's called San Martinez. Would be great if you did a comparison of this vs the Aldi San Marco. Keep up the good work! Cheers
Good review simon..highlighting the deception of well known beers from Europe brewed in uk by another brewer that's deceptive advertising not original brewing company even producing the beer,it's been going on too long customers being taken mugs now realising slowly..good on Aldi!..
I ran out to Aldi and picked up a bottle of San Marcos that's been chilling in the fridge since this video was 5 hours old. Just cracked it open expecting it to taste like the imported San Miguel that my off license used to carry but it just tasted like one of those shitty draught lagers you used to get in "sports bars" in the late 80s. Still better than brewed in the UK by Carlsberg San Miguel though.
Its odd hearing the hatred in your voice for San Miguel as it is one of the few UK lagers i don't mind. I genuinely dislike a lot of the other comparable uk brewed lagers. That said i spent some time on the continent recently and was blown away by how much more interesting their beers were. Really looking forward to trying some Aldi/Lidl imports. Thank you!
Lidl have Budvar dark lager in their specials racks. £1.75 a bottle, so good I went back for more, plus I went a watched your video on the Budvar to confirm my choice was good.
Hi there ...totally agree with you about San Miguel Spanish beer produced in the UK....when I'm the Philippines I drink San Miguel pilsen...but favourite is Red Horse which comes in at 7%...you can get in here in Pinoy supermarkets online
as a keen San Miguel drinker I am going give that new stuff a go 😉. just as a matter of interest I would be keen to know if you have tried Innis & Gunn I believe it's brewed in Edinburgh. Please give it a try just to see if you like it as much as I do ? 🏴🏴
I just bought some on the way home, chilling in the fridge for later, just after my tea settles. I 100% agree about Aldi/Lidl and their "knock off" alcohols being well done, their Rheinbacher/Patronus wheat beers are my go-to, both brewed in Germany. The brewing on license thing is awful anyway, largely because of the water being totally different at source, the Burtonisation of water, perhaps even the same variety of barley/wheat/hops but grown elsewhere in the world etc. I don't know if you're into wines, but there is only one place in world where you can grow the grapes for Pouilly-Fumé white wine, Aldi had a 70cl bottle for a tenner recently, and it was so much nicer than the P-F that Tesco offers for £16 a bottle, they have proper respect for us as consumers!
I bought a couple of bottles of San Marcos out of curiosity. My wife likes the odd glass of San Miguel, God knows why 🤷♂️ I arranged a blind tasting comparison. We agreed the San Marcos is way better.
Thank you, I'd not heard of this before, despite shopping regularly at Aldi. Will deffo get some to try tomorrow. Just found your channel and subbed. Right up my street.
Been asking this myself for years. I reckon we have in the UK only a couple of perfect (low mineral content) Lager Water sources. Getting the infrastructure + people to these locations is costly. However, essential!
There are a good few micro breweries around the UK specialising in lagers. Many are excellent. Especially Helles style beers. Do a Google for your area.
@@herring_gull In Edinburgh there are lots of microbreweries. However, listen-up and listen good. In an age where microplastics clog our testicles, where we imbibe so much plastic it bleeds-off my testosterone turning all the men in my society into soft limp boneless squibs, I try to avoid beer that touches plastic: Especially pressurised fermenting beers made in plastic containers. They all use plastic, it's not good. Plastic isn't polished inert metal or wood or glass. You say Helles style....but I say local counterfeit 😜👍
Think they've stopped doing it, I haven't seen it in the last month or so. Also gone is the 1079 project Pilsner 4.6% in cans which was cheap and half decent.
Great comparison, and glad Aldi's version won. Just been down to Aldi myself and found their new Madri Rip-off, "Grande" which unlike Madri is actually brewed in Spain. Would be great to see a battle video between these 2.
Having one right now. Very pleasant...but can't touch a Feldschlosschen. Don't ask the Asda staff where it is on the shelves. They'll look blank at your attempted Swiss-German accent and then point you vaguely towards the bog or the car park.
So I have just came back from Sicily (recommended it’s absolutely fantastic) and brought some beers back. Brought some authentic moretti, Budweiser (don’t judge please, it’s 5% and just wanted to try) and some birra messina di sale. So far I have blinded the Italian moretti against uk brewed (chose Italy) and blinded the bud (chose 5% European). My next one I am going to do is the birra messina vs moretti sale di mare. What I would say, in my opinion, the authentic stuff is better, but I don’t think it’s as big a difference when you do it blind. I have also done the Czech brewed staropramen v uk and chose Czech. Maybe lucky but it’s not a big difference as you might think when you take the prejudice away of knowing what’s what.
Thank you Simon as I visited the local Aldi & finally managed to buy three bottles of San Marco priced at £1.79 & abv as you’d said & wow it’s much better than the British San Miguel😁 Also, I’m old enough to remember when San Miguel used to be nice & then they labelled it with ‘especial’ & changed the taste (for the worse) & I always wondered why they did that. Do you or anybody else know why? I was hoping they drop the term & revert back but they haven’t
Not related to this beer but I noticed before they have dropped the % of grolsch once again! Be interested to hear your thoughts as it’s a drink I used to love 😢
I picked up 6 bottles of the Aldi San Marcos today, its a more mellow less gassy more classy beer imho thanks for the recommendation I will be getting more 😊
Should also say I picked a couple of bottles of the Aldi San Marcos up at the weekend - really enjoyed the first and looking forward to getting stuck into the other. It’s an absolute banger for a summer barbecue. I’d probably go 7/10 personally, and prefer their Reinbacher, but definitely an enjoyable drinkable lager.
San marcos good to know it exists. 8 out of 10 that’s not bad will get to Aldi at some point to see if there’s any in there. Quality reviews Simon + haircut looking sharp 💇♂️
Having drunk and enjoyed a few bottles of the M&S own label Spanish Lager, I am wondering how the Aldi version compares? It's a fair bit cheaper, so I don't expect it to be as good, but it may be worth a try.
"My favourite in Germany was Dortmunder Union which i have to order online for xmas..slurp..nector, i would say a lot of British malt beers are very popular abroad but the home brewed lager is sadly way behind.....!
You may recognise San Miguel from Spanish holidays, but it was first made in 1890 by a Spaniard in the district of San Miguel, Manila - the capital city of the Philippines.
Top Tip if you pick up the Gluten free San Miguel, it is the imported 5.4% version and not the uk brewed shite. Without the gluten doesn't taste any different to the with-gluten imported version either.
I'd be interested to see you review the now UK brewed Corona, compared to the original Corona imported from Mexico (if there was some way to still buy that version). That was the straw that broke the camels back for me and made me start checking labels. The imported one was so nice, with the almost maize aroma, the UK brewed version is such a poor copy it's a cheek to use the label and charge what they do for it.
UK brewed San Miguel is not a real Spanish San Miguel. But to fair, it is very hard to take a beer and brew it in another country. And manage to copy the taste exact. They almost always end up being a bleak copy of the original. I am not saying the result is undrinkable. But if you do a blind test you will almost always be able to pick out the original (oh that is the good one). And indication if a beer is brewed in UK is that the three first numbers in the barcode is in range of 500-509. However this may be more a rule of thumb, as it may be misleading. Search for List of GS1 country codes for other counties
They got another Spanish brewed one called Grande at 4.6%, which may well be aimed at Madri which I spotted in Aldi for the first time last weekend, so I assume this is a new one too.
Gonna get some for the weekend......suprised Aldi haven't ripped off the rice beers such as Ashai/Bud ect *especially bud* Problem with Aldi and these beers 🍻 you get them and 6 months later they have disappeared .... Steinhauser was a lovely Pilsner and went to get it after Xmas discontinued.
@@jeffrey7890 it was OK, not as good as the fake Estrella they used to do around the same time (Carullo it was called). They currently do their own version of Madri called Grande, I've got a bottle in the fridge but I've yet to try it
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Was in Menorca a few weeks ago and the difference is night and day: Estrella Dame 5.4, Mahón 5.5, Cruz Campo 5.5, Estralla Galicia 5.5. Even putting the ABV aside, the originals were just lovely in comparison to the versions we get in the UK! My case was a lot heavier coming back!👌Great review as always, Simon!👍
Estrella Damm is my favourite, Mahou 5 Estrellas a close second 👌🏼
If I want a good drink I make a point of not buying anything that's brewed in the UK as it's likely to be dross.
Presumably any overseas brand of beer brewed in the UK?
Plenty of great beers brewed in the UK. Just not these knock-off foreign brands
Surely you're refering to overseas beers that are brewed in the United Kingdom?
Aaaa no. Uk beer is decent
So much for Brexit.
Shameful.
Good Job Aldi I am fed up with these UK brewed beers pretending to be something else. Home Bargains is also a good choice for a selection of lagers brewed abroad and ones you typically don't find in the supermarkets.
Nothing worse than these ‘Soul of Madrid’ ‘Spanish Tradition’ beers brewed in Burton-on-Trent
Spanish San Miguel is also a brewed under licence foreign beer. No more authentic than the UK version.
@@AlienMidget123Madri is brewed in Tadcaster.
@@VictheSecret Carling black label you mean :P
@@jackb5414 Same parent brew, just not diluted so much, and with hop extracts added.
Saw this in Aldi last week and was tempted….. will buy a few bottles of San Marcos tomorrow …..
I had a bottle of the San Marcos yesterday and it was very pleasant and good value.
Only just discovered your channel a week or so ago but really enjoying the videos, thanks for making them. Also been going back and looking at your older videos.
Any beer in thr Phillipines is better than any UK brew. Pick up some Red Horse
The San Miguel leaves a strange chemical bitterness on the side my tongue its 5% is about all I could say . The San Marcos was a pleasant drink ,no Warsteiner , but pleasant , smooth drinking , proper strength and cheap . Whats not to like ?
Glad to see this review, Bought this San Marcos and their 'Grande' bottles after seeing they were both brewed in Spain.
That Grande is spot on mate 👍
The grande is lovely
Addams ale is the cheapest,only out the tap.
Hi Simon. Great review. Thanks for the recommendation. I bought a bottle of the San Marco a few days ago and really enjoyed it, it's very good. Definitely on the shopping list.
Tesco still doing German brewed Kronbacher at six quid for three 660ml bottles …great stuff
You see it at the Coop too along with Warsteiner
@@johnmoruzzi7236 yes and Bargain Booze up here in Lancashire
Couldn't believe it! When in the Netherlands recently I had a can of Grolsch at 5% percent - perfectly fine lager. Came back to the UK to find its sold at 3.4% strength! At this rate you can't even call it the same beer.
UK beer has massively gone down in quality over the past 10 to 15 years. I noticed the same thing with Kronenbourg when I was in France.
Grolsch 3.4%? Seriously? Not a typo? I used to love it in those chunky big bottles with the flip top. Back in the day, back in the day...
Grolsch is 4% in the UK. Carlsberg is now 3.4% from 3.8%.
@@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE Pro tip, if you’re in the UK forget beer. Head to the nearest Aldi and hit the red wine aisle. Cheaper and you’ll actually get a buzz. The beer is so over priced and weak.
@@unusedsub3003 No thanks. I like red wine but I much prefer to drink beer, even cheap weak mass-produced lager.
Minimum 8 cans an evening for me, so I like it light and refreshing, occasionally I'll treat myself to some nice 6-7% hoppy IPAs or Belgian Tripels.
Fairly new to this channel and watched a lot of videos already. Love the Aldi/Lidl videos as it's easy to access and great value. Thanks 👍
Kronenburg being advertised on line from 2.99 to £3.59 for a 660 MLS bottle. Claiming still at 5% strength. The Aldi is a an outright winner for the money 💰
You mean "Biere 1664"...
I really don't like 1664. Much prefer the red stubbies you get in France. They cost next to nothing over there too.
Used to quite like San Miguel but haven’t had one for over 5 years . Since then I have tended to go for smaller quantities of Imperial Stouts , Geuze , Rauchebiers etc as I now prefer taste over thirst quenching .
So glad to see Aldi being clever yet again by giving the consumer something better than the commercial ‘giants’ of blandness. Heineken, Carlsberg, Kronenberg, “I’m looking at you” - they are quite the devils work, horrid stuff indeed.
You've selected a quirky trio there. Heineken own + brew Kroenberg in the UK while the Carlsberg Group own + brew Kroenberg globally.
Little corner shop up from me does san miguel 5.4 original spanish , it's miles away from the uk brewed stuff , it's beautiful !
Hasta la Vista
Hi, Simon. The Philippines was colonised by the Spanish. The original brewers were probably Spanish, or at least, of Spanish origin
Yup they were and then returned to Spain and brewed it there
@@MonkeymagicSep1978 so it’s not ‘really’ Filipino at all. The Spanish name gives it away!
@@alexshort8055 yup two spanish guys went travelling old school style. Invented san miguel then returned home with it boom
I bought one to try the other day because it's genuinely brewed in Spain... really rather nice.
There was another similar one too but I haven't tried it yet.
Just back from Aldi and was going to compare these two . Looking forward to tasting along . cheers
I've got myself two San Marcos for tonight, looking forward to trying them.
A threesome is alsways fun.
Watching your video, I have just been to aldi and got some san Marcos. it's really good. Thanks for reviewing this. Cheers
Will be trying one of these for sure . And as some have said beer larger is getting weaker. But the price is going up big time .
I agree completely with your comments ,i got home late last night having been to the seaside for the day and so dashed into morrisons 10 minutes before they shut,i walked up and down the isle looking for something to drink and frankly gave up i then decided to buy some Guinness and a bottle of cooking johhny walker,
never in the history of man has it been so difficult to buy something decent in a bottle or can for a reasonable amount of cash
I'm finding nearly all bottles in supermarkets far too expensive, I think they think, well its cheaper than you pay in a pub, so it's a bargain, which it definitely is not.
I went to my Sainsburys Local the other day, really fancied a lager and gave up as every single one was UK brewed and I don't want something that tastes like liquid coins
Aldi and Lidl don't fukc about with their products. At least they don't treat us like idiots
Aldi’s craft beer selection is fucking awful!!!
@@cobracraig666 their lagers are decent though...
@@jamesgeorge8915 I would agree with decent but the prices have really pushed up the last couple of years, I’d rather pay the extra 20,30,40p and get a proper German brewed lager personally
@@cobracraig666 well you do that brother and enjoy.
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Lidl do a dupe of San Miguel also. It's called San Martinez. Would be great if you did a comparison of this vs the Aldi San Marco. Keep up the good work! Cheers
I prefer the Aldi clone. The Lidl one is ok for the price - but the Aldi one is closer to San Miguel - and the same price as the Lidl one.
San Miguel was originally brewed in the Phillipines which was a Spanish colony at the time.
I tried a Czech pilsner after your last video and it was far superior to all the other shit I’ve been drinking. Thank you.
Hi bud, how about reviewing some barley wines /old ales sometime cheers x great channel btw
This should be made illegal.I don't want a UK brewed Staropramen as much as i would want a Spanish brewed Hobgoblin.This is misleading people.
Good review simon..highlighting the deception of well known beers from Europe brewed in uk by another brewer that's deceptive advertising not original brewing company even producing the beer,it's been going on too long customers being taken mugs now realising slowly..good on Aldi!..
But of course Spanish San Miguel is as fake as English or Chinese San Miguel.
Spanish San Miguel is as fake any brewed outside of the Philippines.
I hate that the beer we get here is not brewed where the beer is supposedly from and is usually inferior to the real version
100% agree, budweiser budvar at lidl is brewed in Czech Republic 👌
I ran out to Aldi and picked up a bottle of San Marcos that's been chilling in the fridge since this video was 5 hours old. Just cracked it open expecting it to taste like the imported San Miguel that my off license used to carry but it just tasted like one of those shitty draught lagers you used to get in "sports bars" in the late 80s. Still better than brewed in the UK by Carlsberg San Miguel though.
I know I'm getting old but ALL beers taste bad these days.
@@docastrov9013 Bloody COVID effect on taste buds.
I just recently tried the San Marcos and the reinbacher weisbeer and I was really impressed with both.
Its odd hearing the hatred in your voice for San Miguel as it is one of the few UK lagers i don't mind. I genuinely dislike a lot of the other comparable uk brewed lagers. That said i spent some time on the continent recently and was blown away by how much more interesting their beers were. Really looking forward to trying some Aldi/Lidl imports. Thank you!
He's a bit OTT with San Mig.
Better to diss Fosters, Carling etc.
Watching your videos recently the only thing that tops your variety of beers is the variety of hair styles! Enjoyed them all too lol
I've only just discovered your channel and I subscribed straight away. Looks like I've a lot of catching up to do🤗
I really like san Miguel , I’ll definitely try the Aldi one
Lidl have Budvar dark lager in their specials racks. £1.75 a bottle, so good I went back for more, plus I went a watched your video on the Budvar to confirm my choice was good.
That's the best Budweiser - not the pale American imitation that uses the name. Budvar is excellent.
Hi there ...totally agree with you about San Miguel Spanish beer produced in the UK....when I'm the Philippines I drink San Miguel pilsen...but favourite is Red Horse which comes in at 7%...you can get in here in Pinoy supermarkets online
as a keen San Miguel drinker I am going give that new stuff a go 😉. just as a matter of interest I would be keen to know if you have tried Innis & Gunn I believe it's brewed in Edinburgh. Please give it a try just to see if you like it as much as I do ? 🏴🏴
I just bought some on the way home, chilling in the fridge for later, just after my tea settles.
I 100% agree about Aldi/Lidl and their "knock off" alcohols being well done, their Rheinbacher/Patronus wheat beers are my go-to, both brewed in Germany. The brewing on license thing is awful anyway, largely because of the water being totally different at source, the Burtonisation of water, perhaps even the same variety of barley/wheat/hops but grown elsewhere in the world etc.
I don't know if you're into wines, but there is only one place in world where you can grow the grapes for Pouilly-Fumé white wine, Aldi had a 70cl bottle for a tenner recently, and it was so much nicer than the P-F that Tesco offers for £16 a bottle, they have proper respect for us as consumers!
Great video Simon, I completely agree!
Is there any update on the garden bunker bar?
Aldi did San Marcos a couple of years ago but then stopped. Interesting to see it back.
I bought a couple of bottles of San Marcos out of curiosity. My wife likes the odd glass of San Miguel, God knows why 🤷♂️
I arranged a blind tasting comparison. We agreed the San Marcos is way better.
Thank you, I'd not heard of this before, despite shopping regularly at Aldi. Will deffo get some to try tomorrow. Just found your channel and subbed. Right up my street.
Just shows the power of marketing with these faux foreign beers.
Why can't the big brewers brew a really good British lager and market it as such
Been asking this myself for years. I reckon we have in the UK only a couple of perfect (low mineral content) Lager Water sources. Getting the infrastructure + people to these locations is costly. However, essential!
Spanish San Miguel is also a faux foreign beer, brewed under licence
Samuel Smith's lagers are good. Off hand i can't think of any other UK lagers that are half decent.
There are a good few micro breweries around the UK specialising in lagers. Many are excellent. Especially Helles style beers. Do a Google for your area.
@@herring_gull In Edinburgh there are lots of microbreweries. However, listen-up and listen good. In an age where microplastics clog our testicles, where we imbibe so much plastic it bleeds-off my testosterone turning all the men in my society into soft limp boneless squibs, I try to avoid beer that touches plastic: Especially pressurised fermenting beers made in plastic containers. They all use plastic, it's not good. Plastic isn't polished inert metal or wood or glass.
You say Helles style....but I say local counterfeit 😜👍
Aldi now have their own version of Madri called Grande, worth a look!
Try the Rossini doble malto from Aldi. Snobbery aside it’s an absolutely magnificent beer. 💯
Simon did it it’s in the video
Think they've stopped doing it, I haven't seen it in the last month or so. Also gone is the 1079 project Pilsner 4.6% in cans which was cheap and half decent.
Great comparison, and glad Aldi's version won. Just been down to Aldi myself and found their new Madri Rip-off, "Grande" which unlike Madri is actually brewed in Spain. Would be great to see a battle video between these 2.
Try it yourself and forget the reviews.
San Miguel the John Smith's of Spanish beers. Sweet sickly muck was how I described it when I first tasted it in Lloret de Mar back in 1969.
San miguel and cruz campo are my sworn enemies gonna give san marco a try sounds decent
Simon, if the prices were the other way round would you still consider the San Mig overpriced and the San Marcos good value?
God bless Aldi. They’re absolutely smashing it with wine too. Btw, the Philippines was a Spanish colony once upon a time.
Hi I'm off to aldi today and I'm going to try this larger on your recommendation thanks 😊
Having one right now. Very pleasant...but can't touch a Feldschlosschen.
Don't ask the Asda staff where it is on the shelves. They'll look blank at your attempted Swiss-German accent and then point you vaguely towards the bog or the car park.
Going to do this comparison on Thursday myself The Staroprame £1.79 from Lidl brewed in the Czech Republic on yes must buy.
Keep it quiet.
The best UK brewed fake beer is Singha. Brewed by Shepherd Neame. Night and day compared to the other mass produced UK fakes.😊
Picked one of these up today, looking forward to giving it a try later!
So I have just came back from Sicily (recommended it’s absolutely fantastic) and brought some beers back. Brought some authentic moretti, Budweiser (don’t judge please, it’s 5% and just wanted to try) and some birra messina di sale. So far I have blinded the Italian moretti against uk brewed (chose Italy) and blinded the bud (chose 5% European). My next one I am going to do is the birra messina vs moretti sale di mare. What I would say, in my opinion, the authentic stuff is better, but I don’t think it’s as big a difference when you do it blind. I have also done the Czech brewed staropramen v uk and chose Czech. Maybe lucky but it’s not a big difference as you might think when you take the prejudice away of knowing what’s what.
Thank you Simon as I visited the local Aldi & finally managed to buy three bottles of San Marco priced at £1.79 & abv as you’d said & wow it’s much better than the British San Miguel😁
Also, I’m old enough to remember when San Miguel used to be nice & then they labelled it with ‘especial’ & changed the taste (for the worse) & I always wondered why they did that. Do you or anybody else know why? I was hoping they drop the term & revert back but they haven’t
God knows what possessed me to do it, but I had a can of San Miguel at the weekend; it was foul! I will give this Aldi version a go.
I'm straight off to Aldi tomorrow to get me some of this!!
Get your beans in while you're there.
Not related to this beer but I noticed before they have dropped the % of grolsch once again! Be interested to hear your thoughts as it’s a drink I used to love 😢
No way Pedro... I got mine to go up today...
I picked up 6 bottles of the Aldi San Marcos today, its a more mellow less gassy more classy beer imho thanks for the recommendation I will be getting more 😊
You'll get bored with it.
Should also say I picked a couple of bottles of the Aldi San Marcos up at the weekend - really enjoyed the first and looking forward to getting stuck into the other. It’s an absolute banger for a summer barbecue. I’d probably go 7/10 personally, and prefer their Reinbacher, but definitely an enjoyable drinkable lager.
San marcos good to know it exists. 8 out of 10 that’s not bad will get to Aldi at some point to see if there’s any in there. Quality reviews Simon + haircut looking sharp 💇♂️
Ooo I’ll have to look out in Aldi for it! That’s why I like Mahou as it’s still brewed in Spain
Trying a San Marcos later, look forward to it!
Good job aldi, a real Spanish bear. I need to try it thanks.
Sweet and sickly. Not a beer.
Try Feld or Warst
Not seen this in my local Aldi yet, but will certainly keep an eye out for it ! 👍 Where is the cat today ? I miss him smashing up plates 🤣
You did the same review 4 years ago, and scored them both 7.
just got back from Spain... enjoyed cold Spanish beers... perfect... but now I'm back in the UK... back on the cask
Having drunk and enjoyed a few bottles of the M&S own label Spanish Lager, I am wondering how the Aldi version compares? It's a fair bit cheaper, so I don't expect it to be as good, but it may be worth a try.
M+S is expensive because it's M+S that's all.
Nice trim, Si
Just finished drinking a bottle of San Marcos. Quite nice on a 28 degrees day in the UK.
That's all. So is a Fosters.
Tried San Marcos this weekend. I liked it.
"My favourite in Germany was Dortmunder Union which i have to order online for xmas..slurp..nector, i would say a lot of British malt beers are very popular abroad but the home brewed lager is sadly way behind.....!
I think San Marcos has a sweet finish more than a bitter one.
ALHAMBRA
RESERVA 1925 a great spannish brewed beer
Hope this is as good as the Carullo (fake Estrella) Aldi did around lockdown time - have to try it out at the weekend!
Finnaly Lidl did it so I was just waiting for Aldi to do the same thing 😂
You may recognise San Miguel from Spanish holidays, but it was first made in 1890 by a Spaniard in the district of San Miguel, Manila - the capital city of the Philippines.
Strange because in Devon we get a new Spanish style beer from Aldi called Grande which I presume is a Madri rip off.
Well done Aldi, I had a bottle of “ San Miguel” the other day just to see how it tasted. It was almost undrinkable.
Tried the fake madri from Aldi, was impressed.... Most of the fake beers are alright from there.
Grande?
Top Tip if you pick up the Gluten free San Miguel, it is the imported 5.4% version and not the uk brewed shite. Without the gluten doesn't taste any different to the with-gluten imported version either.
I'd be interested to see you review the now UK brewed Corona, compared to the original Corona imported from Mexico (if there was some way to still buy that version). That was the straw that broke the camels back for me and made me start checking labels. The imported one was so nice, with the almost maize aroma, the UK brewed version is such a poor copy it's a cheek to use the label and charge what they do for it.
I'm in fuerteventura now drinking San Miguel it is 5.4 abv 1.29 euro for 1 litre with screw cap from Lidl 😅
UK brewed San Miguel is not a real Spanish San Miguel. But to fair, it is very hard to take a beer and brew it in another country. And manage to copy the taste exact. They almost always end up being a bleak copy of the original. I am not saying the result is undrinkable. But if you do a blind test you will almost always be able to pick out the original (oh that is the good one). And indication if a beer is brewed in UK is that the three first numbers in the barcode is in range of 500-509. However this may be more a rule of thumb, as it may be misleading. Search for List of GS1 country codes for other counties
To be fair UK San Miguel is one of the better UK brewed mass market cloned beers- at least you can taste malt and hops- unlike most of the rest.
Spanish brewed San Miguel is not " real San Miguel" its a foreign beer brewed under licence in Spain, exactly like it is in the UK.
@@ziggarillo The Spanish one is much better than the UK-brewed one though, and that's the whole point.
@@mrchico2621it's no more authentic than the UK version.
@@ziggarillo It's a far better brewed lager though, despite not being produced in the Philippines.
They got another Spanish brewed one called Grande at 4.6%, which may well be aimed at Madri which I spotted in Aldi for the first time last weekend, so I assume this is a new one too.
Gonna get some for the weekend......suprised Aldi haven't ripped off the rice beers such as Ashai/Bud ect *especially bud*
Problem with Aldi and these beers 🍻 you get them and 6 months later they have disappeared .... Steinhauser was a lovely Pilsner and went to get it after Xmas discontinued.
They used to do their version of US Bud about 5/6 years ago
@@jonbibby9755 I see, was it any good
@@jeffrey7890 it was OK, not as good as the fake Estrella they used to do around the same time (Carullo it was called). They currently do their own version of Madri called Grande, I've got a bottle in the fridge but I've yet to try it
Will give the san Marcos a go, great review. Still don't mind 1664 even at the lower abv, but surely it should be cheaper.
What I don’t understand is why burton water is preferred and considered good water for brewing?
Lutta pple from Derby to Brum piss in the aquifers.
Must be a factor.
I always enjoy your reviews and takes on beer and I don't even drink!
I would give this Spanish brew a go, but unfortunately there are no Aldi stores in Finland.
Great bottle for value
Fair play Simon, you know your stuff
Did you get all the glasses of ebay or did you send your mother into the pub to nick the glasses
How about putting this up against the M&S Spanish lager which, in my opinion, is a wonderful refreshing summer thirst quencher 🍻
Had this & the Grande last night. Grande is a Madri rip-off. Both £1.79, 660ml & decent
I was looking at some of the beers, Asahi was brewed and bottled by Peroni in Italy for Asahi UK and Birra Moretti brewed in UK🙄