La cerveteca

La cerveteca

C/Gignàs 25, Barcelona

www.lacerveteca.com

This is an interesting place to taste special beers. -They have a large selection. Next posts will be devoted to some of them. This place is behind Correos building.

Garnacha barrica 2003

Garnacha barrica 2003

http://www.fanbar.es/

I must say that Romero de Hijar 2004 is the unique Fanbar wine that I consider really pleasant. In this case, it is slightly worse than the previous one, todo monte.

Todo monte barrica 2003

Todo monte barrica 2003

www.fanbar.es

The previous one was better for me, although the price was exactly the same. This is a mixture of different grapes.

Romero de Híjar barrica 2004

Romero de Híjar barrica 2004

http://www.fanbar.es/

I am satisfied with this wine. Much better than Royal de Alloza Barrica 2003 (also from FANBAR cellar): it has more texture and is plenty of flavour. May be this is related to the facts that it is a "monovarietal" and that it has 14,5º instead of 13,5º. Worth to taste it.

Trias versus Birba

Trias versus Birba

In addition of being Trias better than Birba, you can check here the different package. While the former ones advertise Gaudi and Barcelona, the latest ones are devoted to bulls. This is a shame for Birba. Worse quality and worse package. You can perform this comparison at several airports.

Trias:
Birba biscuits:

rear side to check that they are really Birba from Camprodon:

Fortant merlot 2007

Fortant merlot 2007

http://www.fortant.com/

This is a pleasant to drink french wine. It has texture and some nice flavours. Worth to taste it!

Berri estates chardonnay

Berri estates chardonnay

This is a sweet white wine. I prefer the shyraz produced by Berri estates.

Berri estates shiraz

Berri estates shiraz 2008

This is an australian wine with an extrange taste: a mixture of sweet and burnt. Nevertheless, it is drinkable. I do not know its price.

Pigalle brut

Pigalle brut

This is a sweet sparkling wine that tries to imitate champagne, but does not reach the level.

Calder's 70

Calder's 70

although smooth, it is very tasty, and it produces some nice turbulences when filling up the glass. In addition, the waiter serves it with a movement of the glass. Worth to taste it.

Tennent's

Tennent's

http://www.tennents.com

although I remember a very tasty Tennent's can beer 22 years ago, I must say that this tap beer is really soft. Too much soft. Same problem with all the beers in Glasgow.

Molly Malone's

Molly Manole's

Hope street 224, Glasgow

http://www.malonesglasgow.co.uk/

This is an irish pub in Glasgow. Nevertheless, I think that it does not have the genuine atmosphere of an irish pub. It has some lonely drinkers.

Corinthian (2/2)

Corinthian
Ingram Street 191, Glasgow
http://www.g1group.co.uk/

Voted one of the top 100 restaurants in Europe by the observer (I think it is this list http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2005/jul/10/foodanddrink.shopping ), it is really a very good quality/price restaurant. Worth to visit it. In addition, the building itself is extremely nice. See the photos below.

piano bar:

wine bar:

lite bar:

Restaurant:

Corinthian (1/2)

Corinthian

Ingram Street 191, Glasgow

http://www.g1group.co.uk/

This is the best restaurant I have visited in Glasgow. In addition, it is elegant, they provide outstanding dishes for a very reasonable price. Thus, it deserves the OUTSTANDING qualification. Worth to visit it! specially because Glasgow is plenty of places that provide very low quality food. Next post will be devoted to the outstanding building.

fixed price market menu for 15,5 GBP. Although it should be ordered before 7 PM they provided it for us after 8 PM, on a wednesday.
very good salmon

fish:

pasta (not the italian pasta, the catalan "pasta fullada") with vegetables:

a very good dessert, although too much sweet & caloric, in my opinion:

the price is amazing. thus, I put the receipt. You will check that it is a true bargain:

Lauder's

Lauder's

76 Sauchiehall, Glasgow

This is a pub with a friendly service. It was the first time I saw this crazy measure for whiskey.

Glengoyne 21 years

Glengoyne 21 years old

http://www.glengoyne.com/

This is an OUTSTANDING whiskey. without dubt the best one I have ever tasted. Even for someone like me, that prefers brandy/cognac to whiskey. Nevertheless, there is a plausible explanation: the barrels have previously contained sherry :-)
Really tasty, smooth, plenty of colour, taste and flavours. The unique drawback is the price: 93,2 EUR when purchased in Colmado Quilez and 79,99 GBP at the distillery. In this case, it is slightly cheaper at the cellar ;-)

Glengoyne 17 years

Glengoyne 17 years

http://www.glengoyne.com/

This is an outstanding whiskey. Similar to the previous one, it is very smooth. The alcohol does not burn your mouth, like other famous whiskeys do. In addition, this is more tasty and complex in taste and flavours than the 10 years old one. Similar to the previous 10 years old whiskey, it is cheaper when purchased in Barcelona than in the distillery (46,65 EUR in Colmado Quilez, 38,50 EUR in vilaviniteca and 49,99 GBP in the distillery).

Glengoyne 10 years

Glengoyne 10 years

http://www.glengoyne.com/

This is a surprising single malt whiskey. Really smooth! They do not smoke the whiskey, like other distilleries do, and I appeciate this style. I dislike the smoked whiskey. Worth to taste it! Nevertheless, it is much cheaper in Colmado Quilez (24,4 EUR) than in the distillery (26,99 GBP)

This is the whiskey that they offer during the touristic visit. They also provide water in order you want to add it. They recommend to add water, instead of ice. In my case, as always, I disencourage to add any of these strange elements into whiskey!