Garlic prawns… Tapas… Spanish Beer ….. Mafia Beer??

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Seriously, how good were those prawns? But yes there was a lot of garlic and chili and salt.

OK I am the other laydee friend who went out to sample some Spanish Tapas and some Spanish Beer and possibly a few more beers along the way, but who really keeps count. I have been asked by our happy beer loving blogger to put my 5 cents worth about a few beers we may have sampled!

Ladies be damned as we called it, or Estrella Damm is also known as was given straight to us ladies and the Mahou straight to the men. It was clearly beer for the ladies! Now I’d better just say that I am not quiet the hardcore beer drink-en gal like my friend here, I don’t down a slab in a night, but I do enjoy the odd beer and I’ll just say I know a good beer when I taste it! And the Estrella Damm was a very good beer. It went down beautifully, it was very smooth, it soothed my poor throat after the garlic chili salty prawns (note to Jems… was there actually prawn in there?) There wasn’t even any after beer burps when it come back up your nose, not from the Estrella Damm any way…. That was the other beer I drank. I certainly will be very keen to taste it again.

Along with another beer I sampled that night…. and there were many, and wine, red and white. But Jems wants to hear about the Mafia Beer I tasted at a very cruisey little bar later in the evening. This place was fantastic. If you didn’t know it was there…. well you wouldn’t know it was there except, from the beefy guy at the door. It had this very mellow trio playing. The singer was a super tanned guy banging the big bongos, he was great but the guitarist and the base player just looked awkward like they knew they weren’t as good as the singer and they weren’t. At this stage in the night I had had a lot to drink and something about this scene made me think about Magnum PI and being on some sort of luxury yacht. Magnum PI in a good way.

Right so… they had a menu of drinks more like a book of drinks. I chose myself a drink , Moet & Chandon $150 a bottle. Sadly, my husband hadn’t heard my request over the bands version of “Fly me to the moon” , So he choose a beer for me and Jems I’m sorry but I don’t remember what it was called only the picture on the front - A Mafia man in black suit and tie and one of those Mafia hats, white straw type thing with a black ribbon, oh and the beer was made in Italia!! now I think it tasted good, remember I had the chili garlic prawns (or the chili garlic) and I think it had a slight bitterness to it, but apart from that it was good too. Not however as good as Estrella Damm.

But give me time and I will go and have another taste and I’ll keep you posted!!