Cervezas Alhambra
Commercial Brewery
in
Granada,
Andalusia,
Spain 🇪🇸
Owned by
Mahou San Miguel
Established in 1925
Contact
Avenida de Murcia Nº1, Granada, 18012, Spain
Description
The Alhambra Brewery was founded in 1925 by Carlos Bouvard, owner of the malt house La Moravia in Barcelona, and Antonio Knörr, from a family with a long beer tradition. Until 1954, this would remain a small brewery with only 20 employees, a subsidiary of the malt house in Barcelona. In that year, the Damm brewery takes a majority stake in the company and the Granada plant begins its steady growth. In 1979 Damm S.A. reorganizes Cervezas Alhambra, and Cruzcampo acquires a minority stake in the company. In 1999, Cervezas Alhambra became, thanks to the purchase of the Cordoban brewer of, among other things, the beer Mezquita, the largest brewer in Andalusia. In 2006 the company was bought by the Grupo Mahou-San Miguel, the largest beer company in Spain, of which it is still part today.
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
33 cL can. Pours deep brown with a huge chocolate brown head. Slight earthy aroma, some notes of roasted malt. Flavour is slight breadish to caramel malty, but not really sweet. Some bitterness breaks the malt flavours before the finish. Sadly the finish holds a cardboardish note which breaks the otherwise nice flavour experience.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2007
at 17:46
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
33 cL bottle as Especial Premium Lager. Clean grassy aroma with a hint of hop spice. Brassy gold color with a rapidly flattening white head. Thin bodied, a bit fizzy. Starts with malt, backed by grassy hop. Well balanced, clean. Mild bitter in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2007
at 18:46
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Clear light brown colour, white head. Aroma of malt and some fruits. Flavors: caramel, malt, fruits. Bitter. Leaves a sour aftertaste.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2007
at 14:59
6.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Molasses and grain aroma. Golden color, medium head, good lacing. Generic grain flavor. Finish is more bitter, with molasses undertones. It’s also somewhat soapy.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2007
at 19:54
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3
Canned (tnx to voota & Jenny & parents). Golden colour and small white bubbly head. Sweet malts along with some hops. Flavour is clean hops and ome malts. Very clean, very dry and quite nice overall.
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2007
at 15:32
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
bottle - Pours clear gold with a medium sized, fluffy white head. It has very little aroma at all. The flavor is of sweet corn and malt like so many other pale lagers and as expected, it’s on the thin side. Still, it’s at least crisp and refreshing. I’ve had worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2007
at 22:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This is pretty much a higher class malt liquor. It tastes better, than something like Colt 45, but alas, that doesn’t make it good. It looks fine with a colour darker than a pale lager. Smells kind of interesting and has a sort of thick sweet smell going for it. Some alcohol taste, but most of that is masked by the hops and sweetness. Some bitterness atop of all of that as well.
Tried
on 13 May 2007
at 18:21
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Smells a bit like tar. Pours cloudy and dark brown with no head. Roasted malt taste, a little smoky. Dark fruits on the palate.
Tried
on 12 May 2007
at 16:45
4.1/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 7
I will be able to choke down the rest of the six-pack but this is definitely a case of curiosity gone awry. Tasted smoky and almost unnoticeably sweet. Very watery. Originally rated on Ratebeer 5/25/07. First ever RateBeer review.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2007
at 04:07
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Light hoppy light perfumed aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate but too fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2007
at 08:08