It isn't a real holiday today, but it is the middle of the week and bookended by holidays. It's almost a holiday by default, but some people take Monday and/or Friday to have long weekends and kind of begrudgingly go to work a single day of the week. Not everybody has the luxury of an "aqueduct", as the Spanish refer to this extra-long weekend (a normal long weekend being a "bridge"). For a working day, we seem to have a normal working beer, Guineu's Latitud 41 lager.
Activity begins as soon as the cap is unsealed, but there's no foam overflow. The beer pours out with a sour-grain scent and a very fluffy head, settling into the glass with a very clear, slightly ruddy light lager color. The glass gives off a little metallic aroma too, making me wonder if the beer has gone off in the bottle. The flavor is at first strongly bitter and tinged with bread, a stronger flavor than I expect from a lager, but the aftertaste also has that metal and green bean bite. The beer tries to override that bit of weirdness, and it seems like it really is a fine lager, but the aftertaste is a little distracting.
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