The best thing to drink with tappas is definitely spanish beer!

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We went out on Saturday night with friends to have tappas which was really lovely - although I was burping paint stripper for most of the night. The salt! The garlic! Oh my - what a great meal! Chorizo, mushrooms in garlic sauce, octopus, chilli prawns and probably heaps more but they were the main offenders I think - at least they were the ones that were seeping pure garlic out of my pores 12 hours later.

And what better accompaniment to this vibrant explosion of flavour than Spanish beer? There were two on offer: Estrella Damm and Mahou, so the two laydees sampled the Estrella (women - be damned!!!) and the men-folk supped on the Mahou.

I think myself and my laydee-friend felt that we had hit the jackpot with our Estrellas, while the boys seemed non-plussed with the Mahou. On one hand the Estrella was crisp, gentle, inoffensive, and a typical lager style beer which complimented the intense food beautifully and on the other, the Mahou was an intriguing flavour. One that might be best sampled alone - so the true nature of the beer can shine. As you would imagine it was totally over-shadowed by the food so it was nearly impossible to review it accurately. Hell - I could barely feel my tongue after dinner - I could have been drinking drain cleaner and i wouldn’t have noticed, God knows I was belching it. Heaven help the bar staff at the pubs we attended post-tappas - poor bastards!

However, I really felt that the beer was most refreshing and I can’t wait to try both beers again - except maybe without the first two layers of my tongue missing this time - because I really think each of them has something beautiful to offer in the wonderful world of import beer.

Also would the record please show that my husband who normally has full immunity to hangovers suffered the Headache from Hell for the whole of the next day as he had indulged in a bottle of wine with the other two…. while I stuck to beer the whole night and mircaulously rose at 6:30 to tend to one nausiatingly chirpy 17 month old without a hint of of the Dry Horrors!

Hahaha! That’s Right! I WIN!!!!