Calle de Casimiro Mahou Bierhans

The name honors Casimiro Mahou Bierhans (1828-1875), an industrialist born in French Lorraine who settled in Madrid in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1859 he set up a paint and color factory called El Arco Iris in the plaza del Limón, still far from the drink that would make his surname famous. After his death, his sons steered the business toward ice and, in 1890, toward beer. In 1962 the company opened a plant on the paseo Imperial that for years scented this corner of Arganzuela with malt and hops. The building was demolished in 2011 and the Nuevo Mahou-Calderón development rose over its footprint, where this street was laid out. The street names the founder right above the ground where his beer was brewed.