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.
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Can
Blond color. Light malt aroma. Very common taste, with a soft residual sweetness, but unpleasantly an unbalanced final; strange...
Blond color. Light malt aroma. Very common taste, with a soft residual sweetness, but unpleasantly an unbalanced final; strange...
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2005
at 19:06
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can
Pale blond color. Very simple aroma and flavor, light malt taste, smooth, low bitterness. Useless.
Pale blond color. Very simple aroma and flavor, light malt taste, smooth, low bitterness. Useless.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2005
at 19:02
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Beige head with pinkish shine, slightly irregular; dark amber beer with haze. Smells oxydized (BBd indecipherable), cookies & caramel; faint rosewater/"amandine" aroma. Initial bitterish taste, horse chestnut or bitter walnut, again oxydation, on a caramelly background. Malty character. Warming up, becoming more and more syrupy. Bit velvety MF - a bit "smooth" in the nitrokeg way, definitely fizzy, but defeated by the syrup. It’s here, in the sweetness that the alcohol shows. Not very refined.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2005
at 13:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden lager with white foamy head. Nice bready malt aroma with german hops. Good malt with whiskey notes and crisp german hops. Light alcohol. Medium bodied. Bottle in Halifax, March 2005.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2005
at 21:39
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Poured a ginger-ale color lager with large bubble and a medium head with average retention. Very strange looking beer. Aroma of malt and crisp hops is clearly identifiable and no trace of skunk even though green bottle had to travel 3000 miles. Taste is quite refreshing with very fresh and crisp hops. Easy to distinguish from a pale lager and quite refreshing .
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2005
at 08:43
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle 33 cl) Comes in a cool, green glass bottle without label. Fully golden with a small, white head. Weak aroma of malt. Quite full-bodied with plenty and very pronounced alcohol - and then not really anything else. Quite bitter finish. 280705
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2005
at 11:36
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Bottled. Near black, brief small head. Light coffee aroma with an abundance of cereals to go with it. Sweet and roasty with medium body, notes of cardboard and fizzy mouthfeel. Salty finish. Salty, raw and fairly unrefined.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2005
at 16:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark color, short head. Aroma of roasted malt, some typical spice. Taste is spicy and bitter, nicely balanced. Decent dunkel.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2005
at 16:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear yellow color, medium white head. Aroma is light hoppy, bit grainy. Nice balanced taste, bitter, grainy. Nice thirst quencher.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2005
at 16:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear light brown color, short head. Not much aroma, bit caramel malty. Quite bitter taste.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2005
at 16:03