23 Sep, 2020 @ 08:45
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CHEERS: Spanish beers judged best in the world

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THE best beers in the world are Spanish.

This is the conclusion of the British-run World Beer Challenge where the best brews are ranked according to type.

Of the 355 drinks assessed, just 20 were awarded a gold medal, with Spain dominating the list by scooping 13 of the coveted awards.

And of the seven beers to get the top score of 100 points, six were Spanish, with only one German brew breaking the Spanish monopoly.

In the 2020 edition of the awards, held in Estoril, Portugal, beers from all over the world were judged.

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TOP RANKED: Spanish beers beat the world

Spain’s top-scoring beers – all with 100 points – were: 1906 Reserva Especial, by Hijos de Rivera (better known as La Estrella de Galicia), whose 1906 Red Vintage and 1906 Black Coupage also got top marks. The date refers to the year the brewery was set up.

The other three 100-point scoring brews were from Mahou San Miguel – Manila de San Miguel, San Miguel Radler and Selecta de San Miguel.

Mahou, founded in 1890, has an HQ in Madrid and bought 70% of the San Miguel business in 2000. It also owns the Alhambra brand. San Miguel was founded in the Philippines, also in 1890, and opened a Spanish arm to its business in 1947. It is still headquartered in Malaga.

Spanish beers also won 12 of the 31 silver medals awarded.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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