Gallas Cerveja, an artisan from Lisbon

Gallas Cerveja

Brewed by Gallas Microbrewery
Rua do garrido 54A, Lisbon, Portugal

A new and exciting artisan brewery in the historical heart of Lisbon, Portugal producing beers that are both innovative and different to the mainstream. Try the Gallas Beer!

Inaugurated in 2018 by brewer Gustavo Gallas, the beer that bears his name is the result of his love for brewing high quality beer for many years. Here beer is made according to the old traditions, with dedication, passion and totally handcrafted processes all with the best locally sourced ingredients from the beautiful and sun land that is Portugal.

The Gallas brewery make a Belgian Wheat Ale and an IPA, and sell not just within Portugal but also to selected distributors across Europe and further afield.

Review: 33cl Bottle of Gallas, Wit Cinco De Abril: ABV: 5% vol

Coming in a brown bottle that has a very interesting cartoon picture of two army guys hanging out of a tank with roses in its gun. Also there is a happy go lucky woman with flowers in her hair. While at the background there are big juicy looking oranges to signify that this is a fruity number. Perhaps after you down this beer, a feeling of immense joy and peace with the world comes upon you. That’s a tall ask as I can be a grumpy bastard at times, but let’s see……..

Christ on a bike, this beer is just full of carbonation, a lot of it! This all results in a huge frothy white head that takes a little while to settle. After all that we get a pale yellow looking beer that looks ok. Later the colour goes a bit hazy and cloudy.

On the nose I get the fruits. The orange is quite striking on the nose. Also get the malts and coriander, all making a pretty nice smell.

The initial taste was a bit of a surprise, it was quite strong and not what I was expecting. Very fruity, and a bit sour. I guess that was the instant hit from the oranges. Definitely a knock out blast to the taste buds early on. But interesting all the same and very tasty.

Has a lot of interesting flavours, and is a beer to enjoy slowly and sip.

Got the hops and the coriander taste and also found the yeast which gave it a bit of a kick.

So overall a nice enough beer, full of nice flavours, I really love the orange taste in the beer, and it had a slight kick to it with the alcohol which I felt after, which I always like.

Review: 33cl Bottle of Cerveja Capar India Pale Ale: ABV: 5.6% vol

Once again a nice logo and bottle, certainly catches the eye for sure, as this time we are treated to a bikini clad lady on a beach, images of relaxing on a beach with a nice cold cool beer at hand.

For the appearance I get a cloudy looking orange beer, with a minimal white head. Beer becomes cloudier and darker over time.

The aroma was intense, a really lovely smell, very fruity and really strong on the nose. Got citrus hops. It had the “wow factor”, was really nice and exotic. It smelled like a grapefruit.
The aroma makes this drink, is very inviting and one can’t wait to start drinking.

Taste is very bitter and hoppy, a usual IPA style beer, getting all the hops and fruits.
Overall its not a bad beer and certainly does the business watching the football on a hot Saturday afternoon.