Ambar Export
La Zaragozana S.A.

Los Cristianos, Tenerife 16/3 2016. 33 cl bottle from Mercadona. Something resembling a lion standing on its hindlegs on the label - might be part octopussy.

Pours orangeish amber with a small white head. Stable. Settles as a thin almost transparent layer of foam stretching to cover the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing on the side of the glass.

Aroma is sweet and buttery. Caramel and fresh timber. Lurking alcohol.

Medium strong carbonation and oily palate. Lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is rather intense and sweet with caramel and toffee. Metallic alcohol lurking in the background. Only subdued bitterness in the aftertaste.

A lot of malt to digest - but certainly better than most industrial Spanish beers.

 

 

I stopped in Zaragosa for lunch and to see the new train station. Otherwise, I might not have found Ambar Export.
La Zaragonzana has been brewing for 125 years and their website shares a pretty good history of 20th Century brewing and the basic process they use. This brew won a Spain-wide award for strong (International) lagers. So for this community brewer's persistence, I give them good Overall Hugs.

I like the roasty-toasty Smells. Ambar is most notable because its 7% ABV is very well-concealed. Strong lagers can get very sweet and too much fusels. No fusels here and the sweet was checked by hops... although more would be needed if this were a session beer. Ambar Export Looks appetising in the glass with a good foam from the tap and some red highlights in the amber bod. It also paired fine with my pizza. Salud !

 

La Zarogonza S.A. “Ambar Export”
33 cl can coded “BEST BEFORE: 02-11-2024 12:57 L3CM0696” and sampled on 24-11-2023

Notes: “DOBLE FERMENTACIÓN”, “3 MALTAS”, and rice.
Look: Clear. Dark amber/copper that’s almost brown beneath a short head of white that drops readily but leaves some decent lacing behind. Glimmering orange highlights are revealed when held to the light.
Smell: Malty, toasty, and nutty with some grassy and herbal hops.
Taste: Sweetish, grainy, bready, and toasty malt is balanced by some yeasty fruitiness and grassy, herbal, and spicy hops. A median to firm bitterness balances it and it finishes clean and dry with some toasty malt and spicy hops lingering. The 7% ABV never shows.
Feel: Medium bodied and crisp.
Overall: I was pleasantly surprised by this beer. The appearance is very good except that the head falls so readily, and the aroma and flavor both have multiple components including a good amount of hops which gives it complexity. There’s also a fair amount of bitterness, balance, roundness, and polish. Quite nice all around.

From the bottle, it pours a clear darker amber color, brownish with some reddish notes. The head is off-white and does leave some lacing. The nose gets a sweet and malty taste, with some caramel notes. The mouth follows, with some roasted malts and caramel coming through.

 

 

Shared 330 ml bottle, at local tasting. Amber colour, moderate off-white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee. Half-decent flavour, some caramel, but not very sweet, tolerable hops. Drinkable, but not really great.

Bought at a Bar in Algorta (Spain). Half pint in its glass. Also bought at a supermarket: 0,33 liter can poured into a chalice.

-Pours a very dark amber colour. Reddish colour but very very dark, garnet. Fairly decent foam head that fades away quickly, though poured from the bottle to the chalice.
-Sweet and malty smell. Some banana and caramel.
-Caramel taste and sugar. And some banana. Coffee, toffe and chocolate.
- Bubbly (caebonated) but with a Light body for having 7º of alcohol, although alcohol is felt.

A sweet beer which I like and which shows that Spaniards are also able to brew good beers.

Cerveza de color ámbar claro, con cuerpo y carbonatación media. Aroma a malta, caramelo y un poco de pan. En boca es dulce, con un amargor muy suave sobre el final.

 

 

 

Brought back from Lanzarote. Pours a dark amber colour with a off white head. Aroma of caramel, toffee & malt. Tastes has a sweet malty caramel with toffee, vanilla & hints of fruits. A malty sweet caramel bitterness end. Overall very drinkable.

I'm not CambaBeer. I don't actually know what I'm talking about. But this is a nice drink here. 7% alcohol ain't shabby and the taste is fine and baked like thanksgiving stuffing. Have it with a loved one or have it alone. Either way it's golden.

Playing Kings Bounty Dark Side. Unpleasantly sweet. I wont repeat even if Im paid

12 Sep 2016: From Hipercor. In Teku glass. Playing Terra Incognita.
An alcoholic mess. Not as undrinkable as I remembered but still pretty bad

A: Amber to a light brown, filtered with large soda like bubbles and a finger of tan tinged white head.



S: Caramel, light burnt sugar, a hint of fruitiness like banana peel.



T: Really light but there is a taste of caramelized sugars, a hint of banana, very light sweetness, clean linen, a sort of light burnt aftertaste left on the tongue. One thing I will give it is it sure covers the alcohol well.



M: Almost milky, light body, with a medium amount of large bubbled tapioca like carbonation.



O: Got at Ginko Supermarket in Kunming, drank March 15th, 2015. Its got a cool bottle and label, looks very classic. Not digging the actual beer's taste and general profile though. Better than a Bud but only because of its unique bottle and the fact its from Spain.