Today happens to be the first day of Madrid Beer Week, so I'd better put a Spanish beer up here. Other locals will appear later, besides a certain celebration that comes about with reasonable regularity.
There's always something new in the beer stores. This label harkens to national history, poking at the interest in a former queen, famous for her less than balanced personality. The tragedy surrounding her and her immediate family also helps to make her one of the beloved historical figures of the country. She might even have been a redhead.
Just popping off the cap releases a sharp, tangy scent, leaning toward the Belgian style. The beer is ruddy, a bit cloudy - unfiltered after all - and only lightly headed. The glassful smells more of sweet apples than the bottle let on. The first taste is surprisingly sweet, but a very mellow and mild bitterness comes up too, gently laying itself over the tongue. The flavor is delicate but not weak, leaving the mouth quickly, without any stickiness or strange sourness hanging around. Pleasant, more of a mild evening drink, seems to be hinting that some chips or pretzels would be good about now.
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