Fantastic Hops, the beer that pays tribute to the heroes of the pandemic

The Madrid brewer LaQuince creates four beers to honor the heroes without capes of this crisis

When the pandemic passes, they will organize a charity auction to help the affected groups

Coronavirus, last minute

There is little doubt as to who the heroes of this pandemic are . Health personnel, workers from essential sectors, state security forces and bodies receive the applause of millions of Spaniards confined to their homes every day. A noisy and massive way for the other heroes, the population that respects isolation, to symbolically reward those who leave their homes so that the rest of us can stay in ours.

Food delivery in hospitals, free taxis or free hotel rooms to rest are some more examples of this appreciation. But small companies also want to join the round of tributes ... And so has LaQuince, a craft brewery based in Madrid that has produced four beers to honor these groups.

A beer for the uncapped heroes of the crisis

The idea, according to Jacobo Lliso, founder of the brewery, was to pay tribute to the world of comics with which they spent, and continue to spend, hours and hours. But, after a night in which "he couldn't sleep due to various concerns", Lliso thought it was also a good way to thank the heroes without capes for this crisis. In addition, the mother of Benjamin, one of the LaQuince workers, is a doctor ... The entire team is experiencing this situation very closely.

The four superheroes that illustrate each of the labels represent the four groups to which "directly or indirectly" the boys of LaQuince are very grateful. Employees in the health sector "for healing and saving lives of family and friends"; the children, fathers and mothers "who are multiplying to do their work and teach the little ones"; the employees who "continue working to supply" to the public and, finally, the companies that have allowed the creation of their brewery.

And all four derive from the same style, the IPA, one of the most consumed in the craft beer sector. They are made with ten different malts, eleven hops, from the United States, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, and four yeasts.

The income will be used in the first instance to alleviate the economic situation of the brewery, which has had to stop (limit its production and close the closure of its two restaurants) due to the pandemic. When the alarm state goes off and the bars can reopen, there will be "a charity auction to raise funds for the heroes," Lliso announces. In addition, for each barrel they sell they will give away a poster with the illustration of the label, made by Antonio Bravo, "so that they never forget that we get ahead".

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