San Miguel
San Miguel began in 1890 in Manila, where a group of Spaniards opened the first brewery in Southeast Asia. The Spanish company was born in 1957 in Lleida, which draws on water from the Segre river; Málaga followed in 1966 and Burgos in 1970. Mahou has owned San Miguel since 2000. The range runs from Especial and Selecta, launched in 1976, to Manila (2017), Yakima Valley (2020) and the 0,0 beers, whose first arrived in 2001.
Beers by San Miguel
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
San Miguel brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 10 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
San Miguel Especial
Their beers place in the Top 12% of the catalogue on average, across 2 ranked beers.
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About San Miguel
San Miguel began in 1890 in Manila, where a group of Spaniards opened the first brewery in Southeast Asia. The Spanish company was born in 1957 in Lleida, which draws on water from the Segre river; Málaga followed in 1966 and Burgos in 1970. Mahou has owned San Miguel since 2000. The range runs from Especial and Selecta, launched in 1976, to Manila (2017), Yakima Valley (2020) and the 0,0 beers, whose first arrived in 2001.
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