Fake UK Brewed Lager!! Warning This Isn't From Sevilla | Cruzcampo Sevilla Beer Review
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I was in Spain recently and can confirm both estrella and san Miguel are both 5.4% and are totally different beers to the rubbish that we’re sold in the UK
Have you tried the sam Miguel export thing that is 7%
I thought the estrella sold in the uk was brewed in Spain same beer
@@johncas1it is brewed in Spain. But we have the uk version. Lower abv, little tip. Daura damn is 5.4% just it’s gluten free. Tastes amazing.
@@robertturner2719 yep I believe you are correct, it's definitely a lower ABV. I haven't bought it for years but the bottles used to say it was brewed in Spain. Things do change though as I hadn't realised Singha is now brewed in the UK but I'm told it now is
San miguel uk is not actually a bad beer
To be honest, I'm at the end of my teather, with beer getting weaker just so the brewers can save a bit of tax, and fed up of decent foreign beer having its production moved to the UK again to make an inferior product. I've basically given up on just about anything in cans from the supermarkets, apart from Pilsner Urquell or Budvar now, if I cancy a refreshing lager rather than an ale.
We have some great regional/craft beers (my own local brewer, Pilgrim in Reigate do *amazing* beers), but I can't even be bothered to go to a pub and pay a modest fortune, for poor, UK Burton brewed nasty lagers. I don't get why having the best possible porduct is so unimportant to these poeple!
The giveaway is the Alcohol. Anyhting at 4.8% you know was a beer that got tinkered with for tax, not flavour reasons these days. And I'm not spending my money on them. Surely there must be others like me, who don't just view it as a "commodity", and are not buying anymore.
Totally agree, only buy German, Czech and Belgium lager now, can't stand the rubbish we produce 🤬
There’s more problems than that with beer in the uk, you can go from one pub to another, buy the same beer you had in the previous pub and it’s totally different! I just can’t understand. I’ve been living in the Netherlands for a few years, and pretty much every beer tastes identical to the equivalent in all pubs. Even the really crap beers here are also drinkable compared to the UK. It is rubbish how they treat us, must be the they’ll drink anything attitude they have to British consimers
Yep, year after year the alcohol content gets lower, 5.0& becomes 4.8%, 4.8% becomes 4.6% and so on.
It comes to something when my eyebrows are raised whenever I see a lager with 5% or above ABV.
And on that subject I'm now regularly buying ASDA's Champigneulles lager, 5.5%, just £1.10 per bottle and tastes great to my palate.
Don't think there's a better value lager around at the moment.
100% these rubbish supermarket beers all tend to be 4.8%. Iv resorted to drinking Polish lager at least there genuine apart from Tyskie thats now been kindly watered for us.
The weakest alcoholic beer in Ireland is 3.5 percent outside of very low alcohol beers the most common weakest alcoholic beer is 3.8 Smithwicks red
Glucose syrup in beer !! We need our own purity law similar to Germany
Agreed - but all the top craft breweries use dextrose - verdant, cloudwater etc
This beer isn't like Madri tho'. Madri is an invention of the 21st century and has nothing to do with Spain. Cruzcampo has been around in Spain for some time. San Miguel is a Phillipino beer adopted by the Spanish as their own. Carling is a Canadian beer adopted by the English as their own. Madri is from nowhere. A beer with no provenance.
Madrí is dirt. It's like the old Black Label Carling from South Africa. Cruzcampo in Spain is nice enough. I will drink extra cold litre bottles in The Canary Islands every few months when I visit and it goes down a treat. I know the Spanish don't really appreciate Cruzcampo, but it's better than San Miguel and Estrella Damm for my person taste.
In Spain its the worst beer the locals hate it they only drink it because its so hot and they will drink any cold beer
@@johncas1Pretty gak on draught but then Spain doesn’t do pubs and dedicated beer staff
Madri is known as an old 80s carling recipe they’ve brought back ..nothing to do with spain. The only way you can really review this beer and keep talking about out Spanish beer is to have a uk and a Spanish brewed side by side
@@seanmiller6938 agreed, it's Black Lable Carling taste. Rotten sh!te
Glad you've highlighted this Simon i tried it after been recommended it and its nothing more than glorified Carling at double the price. As with most "European lagers" sold in this country there watered down for the brits.
it's cos of brexit
@@frankcarter6427Its been nigh on 15 years that continental beers have been getting watered down in the UK
Drank it in Spain once, never again.
Gak beer in Spain can see why they are known for wine not beer
@@frankcarter6427 Lol its not because of brexit nice try 😂
You are spot on here
Staropramen brewed in Prague, very good.
Staropramen brewed in uk, shocking
Moretti brewed in Italy, excellent
Moretti brewed in uk, very poor
And so on etc
I do believe Moretti, Becks, stella are brewed here. Beware of imitations
Since I started watching this channel, I always check the country of origin of "foreign" beers now.
I remember years ago that Wetherspoons sold Czech beer "Kozel" for £1 a bottle, it was the best lager I had ever tasted and have not drunk our Carling, Fosters drool etc ever since.
I bought a bottle of Grolsh on a ferry to France which was brewed in Holland not the PISS poor brewed UK stuff, absolutely wonderful stuff.
Always read the back of these Supermarket lagers guys, if it says brewed in the UK leave it there and buy a good German or Continental beer..
Sooner or later our so called "Brewers" will make a better lager...🍻
Yes I like Kozel . Its owned by the brewery that makes Pilsner Urquell . That is really nice
The Kozel is similar but les ABV and a milder flavour .
The Cruzcampo on the Sub is the real deal at 5.6% it's a lovely beer for the summer. This stuff will be nothing like the original. They've just bought the name and brewed some swill. Best avoided. Cheers 🍻
I reviewed this too hated it and everything it stands for! I'm really happy you did it too mate as a big channel to help spread the fakeness hopefully they sell less of it thanks to the likes of us! I've since tried it on tap also awful stuff all i could taste was syrup shame on Heineken. cheers bosh 🍻
Cruzcampo Especial served in a frosted pint mug sat at the local chiringuito watching the waves coming in on a 35 celsius day
Its strange that food can get a regional protection status in the UK due to EU rules, but Beer cant, If Diageo set up a Guinness Brewery in Sheffield no one would bat an Eyelid, but Cornish pasties, pork Pies, Cheeses, French Champagne and wines and its off to court in Strasbourg if they are cloned. Wonder why a Spanish brand can be brewed in the UK and no one seems to care??? If a beer is going to be cloned, at least clone it...
Newcastle Brown Ale had EU protected status i.e it could only be brewed in Newcastle. But when S&N closed Tyne Brewery and moved production to the Federation brewery in Gateshead they had to remove the protected status. Now it's even brewed in Holland.
Guinness brewed in London for years. Park Royal.
I bought a ten can case of Cruzcampo from Tesco, had a completely different taste from the lovely malty lager I drink Regularly in Spain. In my opinion the best Cerveza to drink in Spain is El Aguila sin filtrar. 🍺🍺🍺🍺😋😋😋😋
Mahou is the best spanish beer in my opinion 👌
Agreed. AB Inbev are now importing it into the UK.
Very good review Simon and good your blowing the myths that these foreign beers are now and have been brewed in the UK,which is nothing like the original Spanish beers,having drank Spanish beers myself having lived in Spain 12 years,Estrella damn,San Miguel,cruzcampo,all nice beers in Spain!,sadly not brewed here!,especially Madri horrible stuff!
I still have Cruzcampo beer mats which i got from the Barry Hotel's side bar when it was called Ziggys back in the 90's , was probably real Spanish beer then.
I'm looking to stock up for Christmas. What about a video on your top 5 lagers and top 5 beers for 2023?
Spot on Simon. The labels and adverts for these UK brewed beers are taking the piss. Moretti is another example. Look at the TV ad in Italian , even though its brewed in Tadcaster. And the New York ad for Brooklyn beer...
I’ve drank many a cruzcampo in Spain lovely on a hot day
A gloomy review, its dark and wet outside and you have to review a shit "fake foreign" beer! Welcome to modern Britain! No doubt it says "brewed in the UK" on the back label but it should be a legal requirement to have "brewed in the UK' clearly displayed on the label. Estrella Damm and Estrella Galicia - two separate breweries - are still genuine imported beers though Damm is 4.6% not the 5.4% of the domestic beer but thats OK with me. Damm is not actually brewed in the UK - or not yet as Damm only bought the Eagle Brewery in Bedford from Carlsberg Marstons' late last year - but San Miguel and Madri are and I wont buy them because of that. If Damm becomes another "fake foreign lager" I'll ditch that too. There are enough good British brewers who make good quality lager, and imported German or Czech lager is always available, so "fake foreign lager" is not needed.
Who are the good British brewers who make good quality lager?
The thing that irks me most about Cruzcampo is that Heineken didn't even begin importing it before shifting the brewing to the UK. A lot of the other UK-brewed beers began their life in the UK through as a genuine import from the original brewing location; when the giant breweries see it doing well, they then buy the UK rights to it and start brewing it in the UK. Corona is one of the most-recent examples I can think of. I wouldn't have a problem with it if the beer was of good quality. This UK-brewed Cruzcampo is an embarrassment of a beer, and it is quite funny that the genuine Spanish Cruzcampo is poorly thought of in Spain.
Madri, on the other hand, I actually don't mind, and I recall you being of the same opinion when you reviewed it on the channel. This is a quick move for Heineken to get a slice of the Madri pie without the marketing investment that Molson Coors made.
Yep, been telling this to people for sometime now, nothing like the Spanish Version. I imagine it's been released on the back of the success of 'Spanish Lager ', Madri , (brewed in England), that is everywhere in UK pubs and bars like Japanese knotweed.
Best by far of the Spanish Lagers is Moritz, closely followed by 5 star red Mahou and Alhambra reserva 1925, which has a beautiful bottle design. Love the Channel mate. Superb.
As soon as you say "an astringent bitterness on the back end...", that's my code phrase for drain pour. Ha ha
Thanks for helping me to dodge a bullet. :)
Tesco sell four 500ml bottles of Erdinger Weissbier or Dunkel for £7.00. It's a no brainer really, isn't it?
Franziskaner is the better weissbeir imo but the Erdinger Dunkle is a cracker 👌
@@jasonpratt927 yes, I agree. Franziskaner is often in Asda but Tesco don't usually have it and I get my deliveries from Tesco. No reason I can't alternate with Asda of course.
It's dogshit. My friend is also convinced that the Estrella Galicia being sold everywhere at the moment is either UK brewed or brewed to the UK style. He's adamant it's not he stuff you buy in Spain.
Personally I'll steer clear of Spanish beer now, it's too much of a minefield.
I was in Sevilla a few years ago staying with friends (locals). The people there weren't pleased that Heineken had bought CruzCampo - there were murmurings that they'd ruined it.
24 years they have owned cruzcampo
@@Veroladerdon’t let facts get in the way of a good story!
@@andrewsteer8860I am not sure what point you are trying to make. OP simply stated that they had been to Sevilla a few years ago and some locals they spoke to weren’t pleased that Heineken bought the brewery. It being 24 years doesn’t change any of those facts, you can still grumble about things that happened 24 years ago.
I've had Cruz Campo in Spain and enjoyed it. My local's just started serving it, and it's like water. The same happened to Samuel Adams Boston Lager. A beautiful beer on import then they started brewing it here and ruined it by removing all the taste.
Shame. Loved a glass of Cruz under the Spanish sun. They make the foreign beers over here so not to pay import duties. Mostly, not very well ....
A small minority of people? Are you just blowing smoke up your own arse there, or what? It literally says "Brewed in the UK" on the back of the bottle! 😂
Want a proper Spanish beer victoria malaga or Estrella Damm this cruzcampo is heineken trying to get into the Spanish beer market in the uk now in Spain this is the worst selling beer no one buys it unless its a really hot day and you need a cold beer and anything will do
Any so called continental beer brewed in the U.K. with a lower alcohol content than the original should be rated a big fat zero ! It’s a fake and usually a crap one.
I've been living in Spain for the last 20 months and Cruzcampo is generally considered to be the worst lager on the market
Gak beer regardless the British beer approach is funny rather like the Irish than creating their own brands outside of small exceptions take a foreign brand and brew it under licence the only transparent example is draught Heinken in Ireland they let us know that Heinken draught is brewed in the Ladyswell brewery in Cork
Not many beers are real, all made by crap multi firm british breweries. Asahi is made in Italy. We are being conned big time !!!!! Read the labels.
I've also tried the proper Spanish Cruz Campo and thought it was not a patch on Spanish San Miguel.
Lord only knows what the shat out UK one tastes like.💩
The cheeky buggers price this stuff like it's the finest imported stuff as well.
Totally correct Simon this is driving me nuts go on holiday to south Spain and it’s beautiful the uk version is not the same beer
Great video , i used to drink this & estrella in Ibiza yrs ago , was goin to try a bottle ( not now ) thanks for this video mate 👍
This beer always makes me chuckle. Don’t know if this is true or not, but I worked with a Spanish guy once and he told me it was a bit of a parody beer in Spain. I.E. if some asks ‘Do you want a beer?’, and you reply ‘Yes, I’ll have a Gruzcampo’… in turn they’ll reply ‘I asked if you wanted a beer’ lol. He didn’t seem to think it was a great beer 😂
All Spanish beer is dross IMO
@@hattmancock6396 what a very silly comment. Grow up.
To be fair estrella Galicia ( not estrella damm) is a very good beer from northern Spain , lovely on draft if you can find it , but decent in bottles Also ❤
@@hattmancock6396 The stuff that actually comes from Spain is mostly ok. It's these fake UK-brewed imitations that are the problem.
Estrella damm I thought was brewed in the uk the address on the bottle is barcalona
Cruzcampo have their own craft beer bar in Malaga.
Pretty good actually - they brew about 10 different beer styles.
I was talking to the Estrella guy in Barcelona a few months back and I asked him if it's genuine for the UK ,and he claimed it was brewed in Barcelona and bottled in the UK! Not sure if he was telling porkies.
Defo all brewed in Barca! - identical recipe - they just drop the ABV for the U.K. market…..and let’s be honest - it’s the booze that makes it delicious! 😂
I work at the Brewery where its brewed. Thanks for the review.
I only drink lager with curry, pizza and burgers really so it tends to last in my house
Estrella Damm is not UK brewed, it is only brewed in Barcelona
Wish beers in UK would have some cigarette style warning with a union jack or something saying made here or a export flag. I bought a box of these and was really disappointed with how crappy they were also get headaches from the more glucose sucrose style ones.
Will you be decorating the wall behind the bar? Looking a bit plain at the moment 🍻
Thanks for that Si , I've been drinking a lot of these lately but at the same time , it's nice enough to drink.
We had that in our hotel in September bloody horrible stuff
Is dusty mustyness the same as skunky or dank?
just like carlsberg being brewed by kronenbourg in france
I agree with you regarding the law on this, I don't know what to buy anymore in the supermarket so usually just buy something that I know is brewed where it is supposed to be and that is Guinness. This UK brewed stuff is nothing like the original and it all tastes the same in my opinion - cheap. I did try this Cruzcampo the other day and I just thought it tasted malty and that was it, the only reason I would go back to it is that it is made by Heineken and they don't tend to use as many adjuncts as others so I don't feel ill next day after just 2 or 3 which is 99% or UK brewed beers for me.
I don't really go for southern European beers.
Germany /Czech republic are just a superior product.
It has a terrible after taste that lingers. I absolutely hate it. 2/10 for me
It is fake I have been to Spain and it is nothing like the genuine beer
You were too generous, it's much worse than 5/10
Should do a stand off tasting of Spanish Gruzcampo and the Manchester brewed version.
Just drink German Weiss or urquell or warsteiner - still good beer to be found on shelves at prices akin to crap like this !
Tried this last week DISGUSTING
Can't stand the stuff in Spain so won't go near it here!
I've started seeing that stuff everywhere recently. Not tried it, doubt I'll bother...
I think since Heinken lost the Kronenberg licence to Carlsberg (who own it) they are promoting Cruzcampo and Moretti in its place.
It tastes like crap in Spain too so not really sure why they've got it over here in the first place.
No
About as Spanish as me 🤣😂😂
I suspect these "brewed under licence" lagers are so bad because they are made from cheap ingredients and don't get "lager'ed" for the same length of time they do in Spain, Italy or wherever, to cut the costs and the result is a crap product. I used to think it was because British water and conditions weren't compatible with decent lager, but Czech Mates by Thornbridge has proved that good quality lager can be made in the UK.
What's up with your White Balance?
This was on self serve tap at the all inclusive i went to last November in the canaries and found it decent enough , going back on Saturday 🍺
Did they also have "tropical" lager on draft 🤢🤢
Had a mouthful in fuertaventura, awful stuff.
@@beefsuprem0241 no mate Haha though tried it in lanzarote in 2015 and I agree, though the mrs seemed to like it
Where has this trend of 'Spanish' beers come from? They're everywhere at the moment and I don't know why.
I think when people returned to Spanish holidays after Covid.
I never buy British brewed lager, most of it is tosh! I'd rather pay more for a quality imported lager.
It was 5.4 when I got it of beer wulf
5/10 is very generous..... its rubbish
I go to Adalucia on a regular basis because my father in law has an appartment there and its free. To be honest I dont think much of Cruzcampo even in Spain. Its usually cheaper than San Miquel....and dirt cheap in Lidl and Aldi. So there is noway its going to get any better brewed over here.
Wonder if Estrella is the same 👍
I sometimes fancy a lager when it's hot out but it's so difficult to find one that isn't one of these mega breweries in disguise.
So many 'foreign' beers actually brewed in UK to lower abv.
Probably not as bad when Whitbread used to brew Heineken in the UK, 3.2% (or thereabouts) instead of 5% ABV!
I still have some cans of cruzcampo I bought back from Spain earlier this year, and I didn’t think the taste between the British and Spanish versions was much different. Cruzcampo Especial is a much better beer with a abv of 5.6% This is the version you often find on draft in Spanish bars. It’s also available on the sub in the UK and it’s awesome on a hot summer’s day.
The Spanish San Miguel, although weaker than than crap made here tastes 100 times better
Cruzcampo (the Spanish stuff) is the worst of the Spanish lagers in my opinion. My go to's are Mahou classica, Alhambra Reserva, Estrella Damn/Levante and 1906. All great in the sun...
If you read the magazines circulated by the brewers, Cruz campo and Madri are nothing more than extra hopped Carling, sold as Mediterranean lager. As to your point about legal sell in the UK, if you think Yorkshire tea is made from tea grown in Yorkshire, then you will be disappointed but it has to say on adverts "brewed in the UK" in normally very small writing.
Judging by the comments, Unpopular opinion I know - I didn't think this lager was too bad, especially on a hot summers day or if your mid way through a weekend sesh and flagging a bit. Not tried the proper Spanish brewed Cruzcampo as of yet but I get what you mean about 'Nothing about it' in regards to taste. It is light and at 4.4% I wasn't expecting earth shattering flavour profiles or a quick route to a hangover, but compared to Fosters, Carling or Carlsburg it isn't THAT bad if you want something to share out at your garden BBQ.
I feel like an idiot for buying a 4 pack of this..
Edit: I cracked one open and was utterly disappointed, it has barely any taste to it whatsoever and ive had the imported stuff before and they are completely different
It's a weely weely bad beer.
Spot on. You completely echo what I often say. But there again I think most UK mass brewed lager is like fizzy pop. Just a variant of the disgusting Carling. For drinkers who just want to get drunk. Whereas if you want to savour the flavour you must seek it out. From craft breweries or drink genuine foreign beers. That is why German beer is still imported and not replicated in the UK. I hope the likes of Warsteiner, Krombacher, Bitburg and so on don't go down the route of Becks!! You are right though, perhaps they should be more transparent about the brewing origins. A big label on the front might do. I also acknowledge its freedom of choice too and there are plenty of good UK brewed Lagers and other beers.
I was listening to a couple of people talking about this beer. They thought it was authentic and bought into the Spanishness of it and thought it was nice.
I left them to it since they enjoyed it. I’ve had the Spanish cruzcampo and this UK stuff doesn’t hold a candle (I’m assuming). Won’t ever buy this stuff.
Estrella Damm is 100% brewed in Barcelona - same recipe - they just drop the ABV from 5.4% to 4.6% for the U.K. market
Funnily enough the 660ml bottles of San Miguel you get in Tesco in Ireland and I guess in Barry are 5% and brewed in Malaga. I have always found Cruzcampo to be bland even the Spanish brewed version.
This guy has his head screwed on when it comes to beer. The facebook groups of Perfect Draft are now up in arms over UK Brewed stella making its way to the PD. Many saying it doesn't matter where it's brewed. Well, it does unfortunately. Would love to see you review the new Stella on the PD
I’ve moved to Helles Lager in my local, it’s bottled, miles more £ but it’s that or Madhri which seems to have taken off massively round where I live. All 🇬🇧 brewed stuff is toilet 🚽
I’ve had a few cans of this on special offer…. I’d rather drink fosters and that’s saying something, definitely not buying again….. I know madri IS a UK beer plain and simple but I do actually like it and I definitely prefer it to this, shocked that it was only 4.4% too, probably a sign of the times 🙁
This basically appeared overnight recently. Same as Madri of course. I had a couple pints and bought some cans. Brewed in Edinburgh (I think?) :D
Spot on, bought some on holiday in Cornwall in summer as it was on offer. Had a few in the garden, terrible nights sleep. Looked at the ingredients, Glucose Syrup. Its nasty stuff. That awful fake sweetness just hits you and removes any other chance the beer had to taste OK. Never buying it again.
Up until a few years ago a local shop used to still sell the German brewed Becks and the Belgium brewed Stella Artois, and they are world's apart from the domestic brewed counterparts. I can only assume they stopped selling due to difficulties (cost/rules/availability) due to the dreaded word Brexit. Whatever the reason its a shame we have difficulty getting original country brewed lagers
I just bought 12 bottles of this before checking the reviews! 🙁 I should have checked prior to buying. Thankfully I got at a good price in Costco.
Why say it's Spanish beer brewed here in the UK. My way of thinking is, it's typical mediocre British-style lager and they've bought the Spanish name to put on it.
should be fraud,.. selling a product (Stella or San Miguel for example) - the ingredients are not the same, should not be allowed. I steer clear free of any brewed in the UK beers.
Saw this in Waitrose at £2.50...But Budvar was on offer at £1.50 a bottle,Guess what I went for?
Cruz has Maize in it I think.
This beer Cruzcampo originally was 4.8% abv. Once again the beer is ruined by being brewed in Britain. 5.6 on Krupps Torps.
At this stage you have to wonder, are all these uk brewed Heineken beers the exact same beer with a different label? Also i think most Estrella is actually still brewed in barcelona, the glass bottles are anyway, tastes very different (bad) on tap in uk though
It tastes like Heineken to me! Dry and acidic!
Likely that’s people not looking after their lines!
I drank cruzcampo in spain 25 years ago and it was delicious! Got some tins in tesco last week, utter bleurgh!
The problem is in this day and age, shipping beer around the world isn't very P.C.
The wine industry get away with it by shipping the liquid in massive bases then bottling it in the country its going to be drunk in. This doesn't work for beer.
Surely almost everyone knows these types of beers are brewed in the UK? Instead of the small percentage you suggested Si... not hating I love the channel, long time viewer
Same issue in Australia unfortunately... Stella Artois is terrible over here, I don't understand why people buy it.... 😢
I am sure non of the branded Spanish lagers on sale in the the UK supermarkets have ever been brewed in Spain, it's like false advertising and shouldn't be allowed to happen, also this beer is so sweet and low and behold in contains sugar syrup. It's a terrible beer.