After Brexit, Spain will become the first power of the European Union (EU) of lamb meat. A food that, in addition to cooking it in the oven or in a stew and pairing with wine, can be eaten in the form of a hamburger and accompanied with a craft beer. Take now lamb with beer!
This was confirmed this Wednesday at a hamburger tasting good gourmet food de Lamb of Extremadura paired with craft beer Madrid. It was organized by Regulatory Council of the PGI Cordero de Extremadura cordex in the Madriz Hop Republic Brewery.
A good companion of the lamb is the Goat cheese, which had one of the hamburgers, paired with the Arapiles beer a Heller Vollbier lager, of German tradition and with little bitterness. Another burger was served accompanied by caramelized onion. It harmonized with the Chamberí lager beer sweet toast, as it has caramel malt as well as a hint of honey and walnut flavor.
Corderex burger recipe book, like this lamb with beer
Burgers like these appear in the lamb cookbook prepared by cordex to promote the consumption of this meat. In the last 7 years it has dropped by Spain from 2,8 kilos per person to 1,8 kilos. Raul Muniz, director of certification of cordex, points out among the reasons for the decline in addition to the crisis, slimming diets.
Against this he defends that Spanish lambs they have less fat because they are small. Here they are slaughtered at three months as they are fed cereal, while in other countries, where they eat grass, they are slaughtered at eight months.
Furthermore, the pastures of Estremadura that lambs spend up to 60 days eating only milk from merino sheep. Its protein is higher than that of other sheep, which makes the meat different. Therefore, you can already try the lamb with beer without thinking that it has a lot of fat.
Brexit may be an opportunity for the Spanish lamb
Estremadura concentrates the largest sheep census in Spain. It is the largest producer of mutton from the country. This is the PGI that more meat exports abroad as well and the UK exit from the EU it could improve your situation.
"After the Brexit We will be the first powerhouse of lamb meat of the UE"Said Muñiz, who explained to Grandes Productos that" English lamb, which is up to 40% cheaper than ours, now takes away the market in France and Italy. We want with him Brexit to be able to export more to these two countries ”.
Madriz, the capital's nomadic beer
It was precisely in Estremadura, riding a Villanueva of the SerenaWhere Madrid made his first beer, the wrestler. A American Pale Ale, in 2015. Then they came Arapiles, Chamberí and Chueca (Indian Pale Ale).
“We are nomads and all the beers are made in different factories. The lagers are made in Germany ”, the brewmaster told us Jaime O'Connor.
From behind the bar Madriz Hop Republic, it occurred to him and his brother to give prominence to the city. They named it after Madrid and on the label a cat. Symbol of Madrid. Each beer is named after a neighborhood.
