Nómada Brewing Co.

Client Brewer in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
Owned by Mahou San Miguel

Established in 2011

Contact
Calle de l'Escola Pia 41, Sabadell, 08201, Spain
Description
Founders Javier Aldea and Sami Claret have quite an out-of-the-ordinary corporate philosophy: they’ve been brewing beer without a brewery of their own – rather, they’ve been travelling the world as beer nomads and produced their creations together with craft-beer buddies elsewhere.

Now their idea has been given a home, so to speak – and the beer nomads have settled down a bit, because since 2018 the Nómada beers are being brewed in the pilot brewhouse of Mahou San Miguel's Alovera facility. This alliance with Mahou San Miguel (with a stake of 40% in Nómada) is intended to help the brand focus more closely on the Spanish beer market.

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black with no head. Aroma is thick dark malty and light tarish dense chocolate. Thick chocolate, hard roasted malty, light acidic toasted note. Bitter and dry roasted chocolate malty. Alcohol note too into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jan 2013 at 10:14


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a cloudy opaque orange with an off-white head - very lively carbonation, would’ve gushed if I hadn’t opened it veeeery slowly. Heavy, heavy Brett aroma - intentional or not I quite like it! Thick, sweet, fruity and sugary nose - I believe I can actually pick up some papaya. Very bitter and boozy finish. Rough and unconventional but quite enjoyable even if I would’ve loved some more fresh aroma hop character. 140113

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jan 2013 at 10:11


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. An unclear ambe beer with a huge yellowish head. The aroma has notes of papaya, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, papaya, alcohol, and straw, leading to a dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jan 2013 at 10:09


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

33cl bottle. Black colour with a minimal almost inexistent beige head. Aroma is roasty, coffee, burnt malts. Flavor has a decent bitterness, light sweetness too, cocoa notes. Smooth and creamy on palate. The final has black coffee notes with an average bitterness and long duration. Flat carbonation and high body.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2013 at 07:11


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

26/12 0.33 l bottle from Rosses i Torrades, Barcelona. It poured hazy orange body with medium sized head. Fine orange hop aroma, some fruity malts and a touch of plastic. Flavor was more sweet than bitter, although bitterness was very intense, herbal hops were quickly subdued by sweet malts. Especially papaya, which was more than evident, some sugar and other tropic fruits flavors, thus rather simple. Full, cloying body with very sweet, sugary papaya finish. Alcohol is completely hidden, bitterness subdued even a bit too much, so, yes, well done. Had extremely high expectations on this brew, so I was left disappointed. Although it’s enjoyable, does not belong to 4+ company.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2012 at 10:46


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Enormous thanks to heavy for bringing this from Barcelona! Poured an amber-gold body, murky, with a big, slightly off white head. Fresh cloves, fruity maltiness, some jam, bubblegum, more bubblegum, some pine, very nice. The taste is more straightforward than expected, but definitely respectable. An enormous assault of hop bitterness, this definitely feels like 100+IBU, slightly more piney than fruity, but still, yeasty notes, some complex fruity sweetness, not really papaya in my opinion, but hey, I’m hardly the one to say how fermented papaya tastes like. Unlike some double IPA’s I’ve had, this doesn’t drown the hops in the malts, but falls just a bit on the unbalanced side bitterness-wise. All in all, really good. Man I love this new Spanish craft/micro scene! Three different breweries in a row - three damn good beers, every one in its own way.

Tried on 28 Dec 2012 at 04:36


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Courtesy of Yespr, also called Saison de Verano, 6% ABV, bb 2015
Muddy golden color with large fruity head. Bad smell, sour, pukery, rotten fruits. Highly carbonated; sour malt flavor with a mix of chemicals; metallic finish.
Seriously infected.

Tried on 20 Nov 2012 at 08:45


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled. Hazy ambery orange colour, small off-white head that leaves nice lace. Aroma is tropical fruits, grass, some floral notes as well as some crystal malts. Flavour is fruity, floral, some tropical fruit juice, mild maltyness. Quite big bitter fruity and floral hoppyness.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2012 at 14:53


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Hazy ambery brown colour, small beige head. Aroma is berries, zest, some sweet malts, yeast, mild alcohol as well as some ripe fruits. Flavour is fruity, floral, mild alcohol sweetness, nectar, zest and some ripe fruits.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2012 at 06:20


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle (ABV: 5,7%) from Cervezorama, Madrid. Pours hazy amber with a huge off-white head. Hoppy aroma with fruits, malt, caramel, citrus and hints of pine. Initial sweetness with caramel and fruits followed by a citrusy bitterness. More malty and caramelly than expected, but this is balanced out by the quite bitter finish. Fairly long and bitter aftertaste with grapefruit. Nice IPA, but a bit too much caramel for my taste.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2012 at 10:54