History

2001 The idea was born

The Almogàver idea was born in 2001. The beer scene in our country was, at the time, bleak. A black and white landscape flooded by monolithic-style industrial beer, dominated by giant companies, with millionaire advertising campaigns where the product had a relative, secondary importance … These were times when , at home, there was a widespread and practically absolute ignorance about what was really a beer.

A visit to a microbrewery in the USA will break our patterns…, we have to bring this back home!

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2005 Courage or unconsciousness?

Few years will pass before the Almogàver project gets on the table. From 2005 to 2009 we’re on transition years during which the strategy and several business plans are valued. Years of long meetings and, above all, many doubts. Until when, in 2009, we decided to dive on the market starting as gipsy brewers but with a very clear idea of the brewery we want to set up. Without a buck in our pockets but with the passion, non-conformity and the firm will to free our country from the kidnapping to which beer is subjected, we decide to launch the project and Almogàver is born…, another beer is possible!

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2015-2016 A great milestone

At the end of 2015, after six years as gipsy brewers rowing against the tide, we raised the necessary fundings to build the factory we always wanted and, from then on, all the work done got shape. 2016 will be a frantic year, a run against the clock. The works in a 2000sqm warehouse , in Barcelona city centre, go to full speed to have everything ready down to the smallest detail for when all the equipment arrives from the factory: brewhouse, fermenters, bottling machine and bottling lines, etc.…, on November 22, 2016 we press the ‘ON’ button and test everything.

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2016 “A not accidental meeting”

A few months before the building of the factory began, in February of the same year, during the celebration of the BeerAttraction, in Rimini (Italy), a meeting will take place that will end up being fundamental for our recent history; during the celebration of the show, between beer and beer, Víctor and Francesco meet and after a few beers and chatting a bit Francesco decides to pack his bags to go to Barcelona and join Almogàver.

Almogàver is the project that Francesco was looking for, and Francesco the brewer that Almogàver needed!

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2017 The impossible dream come true

Eight years and three months after dreaming about this moment every day, the dream comes true, and we finally pack the first beer brewed in our own factory.

We managed to start the project…, now begins our true story!