Mahou

The company began as 'Hijos de Casimiro Mahou', with its first brewery opening on Amaniel Street in Madrid in 1891. Today Mahou sits within Mahou San Miguel, the largest Spanish-owned beer company and a 100% family-owned business. The brand has been embedded in Madrid's food and drink culture for over 130 years and holds a long-standing sponsorship partnership with Real Madrid football club.

Mahou's history in alcohol-free brewing is longer than most of its European peers. The brand launched its first AF beer in 1990, making it an early participant in a category that most major European brewers would not take seriously for another two decades. The current AF product, introduced in 2017, is a dark amber beer brewed with toasted malts. Those malts give the beer notes of coffee and chocolate and a colour that makes it a distinctive choice within the darker end of the AF beer spectrum, contrasting with the pale lagers that account for the majority of mainstream AF ranges.

Specialist alcohol-free retailers carry the range beyond Spain. For sober-curious drinkers who want more malt character than the pale lager-dominated AF mainstream typically offers, Mahou brings genuine Spanish brewing heritage into the darker end of the alcohol-free category.