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Where is Cruzcampo Sevilla brewed?

By Mark Porter Last checked 9 September 2026 How we check

Sold as foreign, brewed in Britain Verified Last checked 9 September 2026

Cruzcampo Sevilla is sold as a beer from Spain. It is brewed in Britain, at Manchester.

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Listed by Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Ocado when last checked. The product pages are among the sources below.

UK strength by format
Format	UK strength	Units	At home
660ml bottle	4.4%	2.9 units a bottle	4.8%
4 x 568ml can	4.4%	2.5 units a can	4.8%

Every beer on the shelf by strength · How the units are worked out

Brewed for the UK in

Manchester (Royal Brewery, Hulme/Moss Side)

Brewed in Britain

Sold as a beer from

Spain

Spanish name, Seville imagery and the Gambrinus figure, 'Sevilla' on UK packs, Spanish-lager positioning

Brewed in (country)

United Kingdom

Brand owner

Heineken N.V. (Heineken Espana)

HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands

UK strength

4.4%

2.5 units a pint

Strength at home (Spain)

4.8%

2.7 units a pint. Cruzcampo's own Spanish site gives Cruzcampo Pilsen at 4,8%, taken here as the nearest Spanish equivalent to the 4.4% sold in Britain. The site had blocked every earlier attempt to read it.

What the UK label says

“Brewed in the UK; country of origin United Kingdom; brewed by Heineken UK Limited”

Source: www.tesco.com

More about the brand: rights, style, when it was created, where it is brewed at home

UK rights held by

Heineken UK Limited (owned)

Style

Lager

Brand created

1904, Spain

Brewed at home in

Seville, Spain; Jaen, Spain; Madrid, Spain; Valencia, Spain (Heineken Espana)

Verified

The three claims that matter, where the beer sold in the UK is brewed, its UK strength and who owns the brand, each rest on the brewer's own statement or on a seller's page transcribing the pack. Where the exact brewery is inferred rather than named, the page says so.

UK brewer, Manchester site, UK ABV, Spanish comparators and the on-trade launch date are all sourced to trade press or a retailer page. The exact month of the off-trade launch is not stated in the sources found; The Grocer piece describes it as following the April on-trade launch.

Sources disagreed, settled 9 September 2026

cruzcampo.es loaded and gives Cruzcampo Pilsen, the Spanish product closest to the UK Cruzcampo Sevilla, as 4,8%. The 4.8% home strength on record now rests on the brewer's Spanish page.

The small print on the base of a current can or bottle, giving the producer name and address, would settle this.

In short

Cruzcampo Sevilla is sold in Britain as a beer from Spain. The cues are Spanish name, Seville imagery and the Gambrinus figure, 'Sevilla' on UK packs, Spanish-lager positioning. The beer in UK shops is brewed at Manchester by Heineken UK. In Spain the same beer is 4.8%. Here it is 4.4%, which is 0.4 percentage points weaker. The brand belongs to Heineken N.V. (Heineken Espana). On the recipe: Presented as a Spanish lager but formulated at a lower strength for the UK. The label says: "Brewed in the UK; country of origin United Kingdom; brewed by Heineken UK Limited."

This page is about the packs sold in supermarkets. Draught in pubs can come from a different brewery, and this page does not cover it unless a format table says so.

Formats on record

Every pack format read so far says the same thing. This is what each one says, so you can check the one in your hand against it.

Format	Supply	Label text
660ml bottle	Brewed in Britain	Country of origin: United Kingdom. Brewed by: Heineken UK Limited, 3-4 Broadway Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9JZ.
4 x 568ml can	Brewed in Britain	Return to: Heineken UK Limited. No country of origin field and no brewer line on the Morrisons listing.

Who has brewed it here

Years	Brewer	Site	Source
2023 to now	Heineken UK	Manchester	thegrocer.co.uk

What changed

9 September 2026: verification notes were rewritten (source)
5 September 2026: verification level was partly verified, now verified (source)
5 September 2026: verification notes were rewritten (source)
5 September 2026: strength note were rewritten (source)
5 September 2026: home-market strength was not established, now 4.8% (source)
5 September 2026: format detail.closest spanish variant was not established, now not established

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