I bought this in Gibraltar, last year, and it came in at 4.8%, there. My Spain-brewed sample was really nice, actually. I recorded my video review at the hostel in La Linea de Concepcion, Spain, after I crossed the border.
Drank a few Cruzcampo beers in the Andalucía región in Spain recently. The two main Cruzcampo beers in the bars were Pilsen(4.8%) and Especial(5.5%). Whilst I am not as a rule a lager drinker,these Sevilla brewed beers are at least pleasant and drinkable. 🙂🇪🇸🇪🇺
Love your videos mate but i reckon you should blow your hooter during every review. It adds a degree of suspense. Best beer reviewer on RU-vid by a mile, keep up the great work
Sounds tragic. I had it on draught at a Greene King pub last year and it was crap. Pre-pandemic draught in a Spanish square with tapas it was exquisite!
Agree re Estrella Gallacia It’s the only beer I buy now It’s different class. Drank Cruzcampo on draft 15 years ago in Spain and it was amazing. This UK brewed stuff is a joke and an insult Wouldn’t drink it for free
The first time i had this was on tap in a seafront pub about 2 years ago (way before it got mass-released into the supermarkets) and i thought it wasnt a bad pint. I personally think it got mass-released to compete with Madri after seeing the huge success of it. I think it tastes like a weak version of Sapporo. Out of Madri and this though, id choose Madri. madri actually has less flavour but theres just something so crushable about it🍺
Heineken bought 40% of Cruzcampo in 1999, they may even own it now. The Spanish 4.8% version is known as a budget beer, but I drink it over there, it's cheap and decent for the price
And shockingly this one is coming to the blade on Monday 🙈🙈🙈. No the sub one was 5.6%. Some have said it's a different beer but this is living off the especial reputation
I liken these type of dog shit beers to modern art or clothes that are made with holes in. It's like the people at the top deliberately put out absolute trash and sit back and laugh when the plebs lap it up. Obviously anyone who knows about decent beer isn't going to go near it, but the general masses can't get enough of shit like this. Almost like some kind of psychological experiment.
yeah part of me thinks this whole 'spanish beer' thing is also a marketing technique to pull in stupid people who think they are getting the actual brand, it's all just false advertising I guess. they claim its spanish lager but its brewed under heineken in the UK, so ofc its piss poor quality.
Why? Clickbait? Was it cos Maddison was booted out of (Cruz)Campo......I have had this in Spain many times and like a mug, each time thinking it would be better thank the last; Majorca, Minorca, Tarragona, Ibiza....I know what a muppet. Still only had one in each place. It is awful. It is the sheer weakness and waterness I recall. As we used to say about Watneys 'its like making love in a punt - fucking close to water' !!!!
Its awful, nothing at all like the Cruz Campo I remember drinking in Spain years ago. Like Madri it has been bastardised for the UK market, and if you read the ingredients you'll spot the issue - Glucose Syrup. Its sickly sweet toilet water, utter rubbish. Adding Glucose Syrup seems to be the think at the moment (they've started adding it to Madri and its awful now).
