This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 119: April 29, 2015
Diary entry:
Today was a quiet day at the hotel, sitting on the balcony of our room, looking out over the resort pool, and working on our presentation for TBEX on Saturday morning.
And preparing our stomachs and our souls for tonight’s dinner at El Celler de Can Roca.
We managed to secure this coveted reservation only last week, thanks to our good friend Jaume from the Costa Brava Tourism Board who helped us in getting in. Such a great opportunity for us to add Can Roca to our list of great restaurants we’ve visited.
We’re so excited!
The Beer:
Name: Cárdenas Pale Ale
Style: American Pale Ale
Producer: Cervezas Cárdenas
Alcohol content: 3.8%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Centro Commercial Duty Free Shop in Andorra
While searching high and low for local Andorran beer and wine in Andorra, we checked a couple of the large duty free shops alongside the main road into the country. The did carry some local products, and we managed to pick up some local coffee, tea, and liquor, we just could not find the local beer and wine until we went back into the center of Andorra-la-Vella to a few specialty shops.
What we did find in these shops, however, was a large promotion on products from Andalusia in the south of Spain, including a number of beers from the region.
The Cárdenas Pale Ale by Cervezas Cárdenas was one of the beers we picked up in Andorra.
This beer was beautiful in color, but I must admit, was a little lacking in bitterness. I’d recently had a number of very impressive “normal” Pale Ale’s that still packed a nice hop punch, this one was definitely more mild, and with the lower alcohol content, seems geared more for the mass market than the craft beer crowd.
Commercial Description: The heir of it’s predecessor, The Cárdenas Pale Ale “Limited Edition” release, the flagship beer of Cárdenas has a graduation of 3.8% Alc and extra hopping process in fermenter called dry-hopping. The result of this process is an increased presence of perception of hops in the nose.
