Spain
Spain brews more beer than any EU country except Germany, and most of it comes from Spanish family groups: Mahou-San Miguel in Madrid, Damm in Barcelona and Hijos de Rivera, the brewer of Estrella Galicia, in A Coruña. Heineken owns Cruzcampo of Seville. Craft brewers such as Montseny, La Pirata and Basqueland win the medals. Spanish beer today tells the story.
Breweries in Spain
Compañía Cervecera de Canarias (Dorada and Tropical)
1 styleCompañía Cervecera de Canarias: the brewer of Dorada on Tenerife and Tropical on Gran Canaria, majority-owned by AB InBev.
Cruzcampo (Heineken España)
Cruzcampo, Seville: the Osborne brothers' brewery of 1904, Andalusia's pilsen, owned by Heineken since 2000.
Damm
1 styleDamm, Barcelona: the brewery two Alsatian cousins founded in 1876, maker of Estrella Damm and the Märzen Voll-Damm.
Estrella Galicia (Hijos de Rivera)
2 stylesHijos de Rivera, A Coruña: the family brewery of 1906 behind Estrella Galicia, which grew Spain's first hops.
Naparbier
3 stylesNaparbier, near Pamplona: a cooperative founded by four laid-off workers in 2009, which soon built an export trade.
San Miguel (Spain)
San Miguel in Spain: a company founded in the late 1940s that licensed the name of the Manila brewery, part of Mahou-San Miguel since 2000.
Basqueland Brewing
2 stylesBasqueland, Hernani: the American-founded Basque brewery of 2015, the Barcelona Beer Challenge's best brewery four times.
Cervesera del Montseny
2 stylesCervesera del Montseny: a Catalan craft brewery of 2007, one of Spain's first, which began exporting to the United States in 2009.
Cervezas Alhambra
Cervezas Alhambra: the Granada brewery of 1925, maker of the amber lager Alhambra Reserva 1925, owned by Mahou-San Miguel.
Cervezas Domus
1 styleCervezas Domus, Toledo: Fernando Campoy's craft brewery of 2007, maker of Aurea, which it calls a Spanish IPA.
Garage Beer Co
1 styleGarage Beer Co, Barcelona: a brewpub of 2015 in the Eixample, now with a brewery in Sant Andreu, known for its hazy IPAs.
La Pirata
1 styleLa Pirata, Súria: a Catalan craft brewery of 2012, Spain's best brewery at the national championship in 2015, 2016 and 2025.
La Zaragozana (Ambar)
La Zaragozana, Zaragoza: the brewery of 1900 behind Ambar, which says it made Spain's first alcohol-free beer.
Mahou-San Miguel
Mahou-San Miguel: the Madrid brewer of 1890 behind Mahou Cinco Estrellas, Spain's largest beer group, family-owned.
Moritz
Moritz, Barcelona: the Alsatian Louis Moritz's brewery of 1856, revived by his descendants in 2004.