A week ago I was in London and had the chance of paying a visit to Meantime’s Pub The Union. I’m completely in love with the pub. The Staff was really kind, the beer( I`ll write some reviews on CAACblog and my own in a coupleof days) really good, even the menu was nice. The ambience in general was superb (I love their beiergarten!!!! you Know, drinking Pale Ale on cask al fresco just in October and In London wow!!!!)

The fact is that for me their beers are really great.Being their revision of London Pale Ale my fav-in cask, though the keg one was acceptable.However, I found their porter a bit too fizzy, something similar to what happens to Mahou Negra (without comparing them of course) Have you tasted it? what do you thing??)

ATJ, you say you’ve been drinking in Gijón. Maybe you drink Mahou Negra from Keg at the bar Gales???

Haya Salud, amigos

All that obssesion on beer styles…… !!!!

Export is my favourite from La Zaragozana and more than a “Dull Belgian”, I think that it follows an style almost forgotten in Spain, that is the EXTRA an interpretation of doppelbocks and Viennas.EXTRA was once very famous in Spain and almost every brewery produced one. Maybe being a bit rather sweeter than the references of these styles I mentioned above (maybe it is the reason why you thought in Belgian beer)
About Caesar Augusta, I don’t think La zaragozana is trying to adjust Caesar Augusta into the witbier style.If so it is a real failure. I think they tried to make just beer using wheat, the commonest cereal, Etruscan inhabitants grew in that time. In my opinion, CA is on its first stage. It lacks a lot of things to be balance as a beer made from wheat, and even a lot of things to be a good beer. It has an aftertaste I don’t like, an accidity uncontrolled in some parts of the sip which ruins the general enjoyment of the beer.

PF. This beer has its own marketing bollock as well though at least they are referred to the history of Cerevisia in Spain instead of being the tossing of some megastars.

Haya Salud

Hola ED! We definitely thought it was most like a Belgian witbier. We’ve been thinking about visiting Zaragoza for ages – now the AVE exists we’re extra-keen!

As most of the people, I really liked it, but I’m still not sure of what style is… wheat ale? Any idea?

On Spanish witbier, did you get hold of any Inedit? I saw they were selling it in 33cl bottles, and at sane prices. However, the experiment seems to have just been about taking a witbier recipe and removing the flavour from it.