Welcome to Birba’s new blog! We’ve revamped our news section by turning it into our blog, a place where from now on and in addition to our news and activities we’ll be talking about other topics of interest: handcrafted and healthy products, food trends and lots of other things.
As some of you already know, in 2014 Birba was awarded the Girona Excel·lent quality seal which is presented by Girona Provincial Council and the Chamber of Commerce to promote the best products in Girona province. Specifically, the award-winning product was Ametllats, one of the firm’s flagship products as it is one of our most…
On 15 February we had the chance to take part in RTVE’s España directo TV programme which was visiting the Camprodon Valley. It covered the Ripollès foals, the snowy mountains and the fact that Camprodon is known as “The Biscuits Town” owing to its hundred-year-old biscuit-making tradition. The programme’s reporters went with Mimi,…
Last June Birba had the chance to take part in “País en ruta”, an online magazine programme which tours Catalunya’s towns to report on the province’s treasures. This time round the programme looked at the town of Sant Joan de les Abadesses and talked about its cultural options, recreational activities and cuisine. Birba, which…
Recently and thanks to one of our customers, we discovered Birba Biscuits feature in a film made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador in 2006 entitled Blame, which is part of a series of movies called “Films to Keep You Awake”. In the film, a girl finds a box that she takes with her everywhere and…
Due to the large number of enquiries from our consumers and as we are aware of the growing concern about the type of fats contained in our biscuits, Galletes Camprodon wishes to state that none of the products made at Birba contains or has ever contained any type of palm oil or fat. Birba’s philosophy…
Food bloggers met up at Sant Joan de les Abadesses in el Ripollès in early March. Twenty-five bloggers and journalists from all over Catalonia came along. The event consisted of a tasting of leading local products such as beer and cold meat and of course Birba Biscuits were literally on the table as well. The bloggers…
On 26 January Temps de Neu, the programme about winter sports and activities on Catalonia’s TV3 channel, featured a report about how Birba biscuits are made as part of its visit to ski resort Vallter 2000. After the TV3 team had called in at the resort they came to our factory in Camprodon. During their…
Cacao nibs are bits of roasted natural cacao bean. They are very nutritious and healthy. A superfood with all the aroma of cacao, they are crunchy and have a delicious, intense and slightly bitter pure chocolate flavour. They have lots of benefits: they are very rich in antioxidants and magnesium and a good source…
With the help of one of the heirs of the founders we have recently discovered that in fact our first biscuits were made in the late 19th century and not in 1910 as we had previously thought. Research has uncovered evidence that our biscuits were already being produced and marketed in 1893 along with fine…
