Full Show Script
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[not lost]
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EVO: It's our second week in Santiago de Compostela, a medieval city in the northern part of Spain that also serves as the capital of the autonomous region known as Galicia. This a hilly and heavily wooded area of the country, and it’s set up quite nicely for tourism.
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SHE: If, by tourism, you mean the Camino. Santiago is a cool city with lots of nooks and crannies to explore... but almost every activity here centers around and caters to the Camino. You're either here for that, or you're likely not choosing Santiago as your destination.
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EVO: But here we are, and taking a religious pilgrimage doesn't sound like a good time. Or practical, since this is the end of The Way. So instead, we indulged in one of our favorite types of tourism -- beer tourism. Yes, it's a thing. No, it's not quite a thing in Galicia just yet. But it will be. There are already some 20 small craft breweries cranking out cervexa artesan, and several bars and bottle shops have popped up that cater to the crowd. It's not a question of if beer tourism shows up here, it's a matter of when.
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SHE: One thing that could help would be a good walking map of where to find and drink craft beer in Santiago. If we’d had one it might have taken us less time to find the bottle shop we were looking for.
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[getting to OB]
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EVO: O Bandullo do Lambón wasn't where we wanted to go, but it's where we needed to go. Moments after walking in from out of the rain, this happened
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[Noé]
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EVO: That's Noé Hernández, an L.A. native on his second year as an English teacher in Santiago. His recognition of us probably speaks less to our international fame and more to just how closely connected the nascent craft beer scene really is in Galicia. And places like OB are natural gathering points for craft beer aficionados. So it' really not all that surprising we met him here.
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SHE: Héctor runs OB. Or just always works the bar, we're not quite sure which is the case. But he's got a great craft beer selection, and like every place we've been, the tapas just keep coming.
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[héctor pours + tapas]
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EVO: Olives, chorizo, mariscos... fantastic tapas. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. A few days before, we visited BeerLab on the recommendation from Jesus from Fillos de Malte -- he was on the show last week. BeerLab is where the blog post Noé found came from, and our visit there started off like this:
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[beerlab]
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EVO: Manu and Jose couldn't be nicer guys. And they run an amazing craft beer bar. And it's backed...
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