A new beer on La Palma

Garimba beer, made on La Palma
Garimba beer, made on La Palma

La Palma now has its own brewery, in Los Llanos, brewing Garimba beer.

Garimba is Palmeran slang for a beer. It’s a very mild tasting beer, flavoured with lupins rather than hops, and I really liked it.

Posted by sheila

Sheila came to La Palma with a six month contract and has stayed 24 years so far. She used to work as a software engineer at the observatory, but now she's a writer and Starlight guide.

This article has 2 Comments

  1. Garimba is made with hops. Humulus lupulus is hops, not lupins.

    They even claim claim to follow the old German beer purity law, so they cannot use anything but water, malt and hops.

  2. Thanks. Thanks interesting. It’s hard to remember now, but I think it was the owner who told me that it was lupins. On the other hand, he’s German, so it might be a translation mistake.

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