Easter is a big deal all over Spain this town of a few thousand people had its share of events. The one I liked was this four-day indoor fair which featured local wine, beer, cheese, cured meats, olive oil and handcrafts.
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| The 19th Fair of tourism, crafts and food in Orgiva Spain |
I happily visited a beer booth and a cheese booth over and over. The vendors were very friendly and anxious for fair-goers to sample their products. The beer that impressed me the most was a hoppy ale with marjoram added. I would never have guessed that marjoram would add such a pleasing aroma to beer. They also had samples of different malted barleys. This was new to me so I obviously haven't been to enough beer fairs! On Thursday I asked if I could buy a half kilo of the malt but they didn't have enough on hand. I returned every day and finally on Sunday they gave me little bags containing five different malts! They wouldn't let me pay!
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| The beer guys with samples of hops and barley malt |
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| Goat cheese and free samples |
The cheese booth had a goat's milk cheese that was aged for two years and tasted wonderful. It was expensive but the price clearly represented a lot of work and TLC.
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| High altitude wine, marjoram beer, barley malt and lemon verbena tea from the fair |
This wine is grown at 1350 metres, the highest altitude wine in Europe! Maybe I could grow these grapes at home where it's only 920 metres!
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This man had interesting jewelry
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