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Time marches on, and so do beer stores.  Cervezorama closed, reopened in a new location, closed again.  La Zurbanita appeared and disappeared before I could properly get to know it.  The Beer Garden and Prost Chamberí have moved into barring more than bottle retail, and The Beer Garden has a shiny new location.  In its stead, is a shiny new beer store, Cerevisia.  The inside is much the same, although the outside has a new color scheme, and it seems a little more inviting for sitting with a caña from their taps at the cute little tables.  Anyway, bottled beer covers the walls as it did in The Beer Garden, and the label of L57 Pale Ale kind of winked at me.

Who's the patron saint of beer?  St. Fermentina?

Actually, there's a bunch.

There's kind of an apple-y scent, not the sharper citrus as many IPAs have.  It's a pretty golden color, too, very classical.  Head is pure white, although not especially frothy.  I expect to get more bitterness out of it, but it's very close to German helles, nothing exactly sweet, but with a rise in the bitter flavor as the swallow begins.  Then there's a mildly grassy aftertaste.  It's fairly simple, not relying and any complex tricks of flavor mixing, just the standard beeriness.  A very nice, relaxing summer beer, all I need now is a beer garden at my door.

Not one of those saints is named Fermentina!  Can you believe it?

Supplier: Cerevisia
Price: €2.70