S.A. Damm

S.A. Damm is a Spanish brewery founded in 1876. Its best known beer products include the following three:

*Estrella Damm, formerly "Estrella Dorada", a pale beer, one of the most popular beers in the Barcelona area. It has been brewed since 1876. Its bottles and caps used to display a characteristic golden star on white ground. Now the star on the cans is on a red ground.

*Voll-Damm imitates a German-style dark beer. It has more body and a higher alcohol content than Estrella. Its dark-green colored labels display writing in the Gothic script.

*Xibeca is a low-alcohol grade table-beer coming in large, low-priced one-liter bottles. "Xibeca" was meant to be consumed along with meals, as a cheap substitute for red table wine when the prices of table wines rose at the end of the 1960s. It was very popular among the low-middle class in Catalonia during the 1970s.

Damm is one of the main breweries in Barcelona. During the heyday of baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, S.A. Damm sponsored a local baseball team, Picadero Damm.

External links

* [http://www.damm.es Official homepage]