Companyia Cervesera del Montseny

Microbrewery in Sant Miquel de Balenyà, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
Associated Venue: Beer Shooter

Established in 2007

Contact
c/ del Feu nº 15 (PAE Avellanet), Sant Miquel de Balenyà, 08554, Spain
Description
The brewing company of the Montseny was born with the desire to provide a craft beer of the highest quality: our beers are handcrafted and natural. We are a microbrewery with a productive capacity of 3.000 litres in each development. Through the system of English traditional elaboration (with maceration by the method of simple infusion), the production process is virtually manual. Because of these unique features of elaboration, handcrafted beers are produced. In the brewing of the Montseny we bottle natural beers and unpasteurised. The carbonic gas is generated naturally by the yeast that is contained in the bottle. We can say that they are living beers that evolve over time. The alcoholic fermentation is a traditional way to food processing to lengthen their preservation allows us to not add any artificial preservative to the beer. Our microbrewery specialises in beers of the family of the Ales or high fermentation, unlike the majority of the national productions, which are of the family of the Lager or bottom-fermented. It is recommended to drink our beers, if well fresh, less cold than the Lager.

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Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Comes as: "Montseny Ecolupulus". Pours a cloudy opaque golden with tiny impurities and a small white head. Fruity, yeasty nose - kinda like some Wheat Ale. Medium body, very yeasty, some fruity hops with a dry finish. Minerally. 071112
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2012 at 09:36

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33cl bottle. Orangish colour with a beige head, good lasting, medium lacing. Aroma is floral, hoppy and fresh. Flavor is medium hoppy, with traces of different fruits, grapes, orange. The final has a light bitterness and slightly sweet. Carbonation and body are medium.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2012 at 15:29

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New Beer Distributors, NY 330ml ($4.50): At least the US bottles don’t come in the idiotic green glass, but I feel like the brown is not much better, because this might be infected. Anyway, it pours a dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is funky chocolate and malts. Taste is slightly sour. Otherwise, it is like a light stout. Tastes like a Jolly Pumpkin stout, except that I think that this one was done by accident. And with the completion of this beer I still have never actually tried a CCM beer the way it is supposed to taste. Still, I gotta say that I don’t really mind the sourness.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2012 at 18:38

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Bottle. Pours cloudy gold with white head. Nose of light tropical fruit and watermelon bubblegum. Taste of light tropical fruit, apple skin and herbal/floral notes. Light grain. Short finish. Lighter body.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2012 at 17:16

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Bottle. Pours caramel brown with off white head. Nose/taste of toasted cereal grain, caramel malt, toffee, dry citrus and grassy hops. Taste is off - lots of toasted cereal and some caramel malt in deep background. Finishes saltwater taffy. Medium body.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Sep 2012 at 16:54

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours black with brown head. Nose/taste of wood, toasted black malt, old coffee, cherry skin and cereal grain. Possible slight infection. Dryish finish.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Sep 2012 at 16:24

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Bottle. Pours with a hazed golden hued body with a small white head. Aromas are of peaches, nectarine, stone fruit, musty cobwebs, mineral, earthy, lightly candied. Flavors are bitter, tannic, lightly sour (more mildly tart), grainy, a bit waxy. Very tannic with medium carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2012 at 16:49

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled@Punavuoran Ahvan, Helsinki. Very deep brown head, close to black, small beigeish brown head. Aroma roasted malts, toffee, some chocolate and mild ashes. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, some wood, mild toffee and some slight bitterness in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2012 at 12:36

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
50 cl bottle. Pours hazu orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty and light caramelish. Smooth malty, toasted malty and light grassy. Bitter, dry, light citric and grassy hoppy. Ends dry and bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jul 2012 at 11:10

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330 ml bottle then into an English pint. The bottle was black; not green like photo. From notes 4/7/2012. Very dark brown with a huge foamy beige/tan head which had spotty light lace. Weak retention. Sweet roasted nose with a touch of lactose. Taste has sweet malts with light chocolate. However, also an odd fruit / sourness. Does finish dry. I haven’t had much Spanish beer in recent years so… hard to get a good base-line for other brews from Spain. This dry stout was ok.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2012 at 18:49