Mexican-Czech Connection: Bohemia Clásica

Time for another Mexican beer, which actually borrowed its name from the old Czech name of Bohemia. So a mixture of Czech and Mexican influence – this should be interesting and tasty.

• Name: Bohemia Clásica
• Brewery: FEMSA – Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma
• City: Monterrey
• Country: Mexico

This Bohemia beer is a lager, and it definitely looks like one. It has the traditional golden color, and about a finger of white and quickly dissipating foamy head. The nose won’t fool you, it’s definitely a lager aroma with a slight skunkiness, faint hopps in the back and predominantly grainy aroma. The taste is iitially sweet and malty, followed by a grainy/hoppy body, coming together with a nice and bitter finish.

I would be lying if I claimed this is a special beer. But I would also be lying if I said this beer is no good. In fact, it’s one of the better Mexican beers I have had so far. Plus, it goes extremelly well with Mexican food, let’s say chimichangas (gotta love the word) . All in all, a very decent beer from the land of the Aztecs.

• Style: Pale Lager
• ABV: 5,3%
• Ingredients: water, barley malt, hops

RATINGS

• Appearance: 3,5 / 5
• Smell: 4 / 5
• Taste: 4 / 5
• Overall: 4 / 5

• Bottle: 3,5 / 5

The Most Interesting Beer in the World: Dos Equis XX Special Lager

This Mexican beer is probably most famous for it’s commercial series featuring The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the slogan: “I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.” Maybe you haven’t heard of this commercial, but I bet you saw this guy at least once, since it has recently become the inspiration for several internet memes. Just google it, and you’ll see.

• Name: Dos Equis XX Special Lager
• Brewery: FEMSA – Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma (Heineken)
• City: Monterrey
• Country: Mexico

This Mexican lager, accidentally found in one of the kebab joints on the local train station, pours out with a typical lager appearance – golden color, clear and bubbly with a medium white foamy head which settles down almost immediately. The aroma is slightly malty and mostly grainy – like we are used to with lagers. The taste is light and grainy. The beginning is pleasantly sweet (not too much) and the finish is moderately bitter. The body is perhaps slightly watery, but still pretty nice and refreshing. Nothing bad about XX but also nothing worth remembering. Still good enough to accompany that midnight kebab.

• Style: Pale Lager
• ABV: 4,3%
• Ingredients: water, barley malt, hops, yeast

RATINGS

• Apperance: 3,5 / 5
• Smell: 4 / 5
• Taste: 3 / 5
• Overall: 3 / 5

• Bottle: 4 / 5

The Famous Mexican: Corona Extra

So, let’s take a look at today’s beer. I’m dealing with another of the world famous beer brands. Accessible almost anywhere around the world, here is a Mexican beer best served with a wedge of lime on the bottle neck.

• Name: Corona Extra
• Brewery: Grupo Modelo
• City: Mexico City
• Country: Mexico

Well, what to say about Corona? It pours with a pale yellow color and virtually no real head to speak of. The smell is slightly skunky at first, followed by a typical grainy and malty aroma. The mild, fairly neutral taste starts sweet, followed by a grainy body. The finish is slightly bitter, which is all fine, expect for that slightly metal zing in teh aftertaste, making it slightly weird.

Although you could drink a couple of these in a row, I’m not really a fan of it. Perhaps it was really that wedge of lime missing that could make a difference, but I don’t know. I’ll give it a pass.

• Style: Pale Lager
• ABV: 4,6%
• Ingredients: water, barley malt, hops, yeast

RATINGS

• Appearance: 2,5 / 5
• Smell: 3 / 5
• Taste: 2,5 / 5
• Overall: 2,5 / 5

Dónde Está Mi Cerveza: Tecate

Coming straight from sunny Mexico, here is one of the most authentic Mexican beers, Tecate. I found out Tecate was actually the first beer to be regularly served with a wedge of lime, thus creating a whole new trend of drinking Mexican beers.

• Name: Tecate
• Brewery: FEMSA – Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma (Heineken)
• City: Monterrey
• Country: Mexico

Tecate pours out with a clear golden color and is topped with a very small and non-lasting white foam, which hardly deserves to be mentioned. Tecate has an extremelly weak smell; the only things I can point out is a slight smell of malts and perhaps a very minimal addition of some grainy aroma. The taste is pretty neutral and similar to other lagers – a slightly sweet and watery taste, with very little bitterness in the aftertaste. It’s a refreshing beer, and nothing more. There are better Mexican beers out there.

• Style: Pale Lager
• ABV: 4,5%
• Ingredients: water, malt, rice, hops

• Slogan: “Con Carácter!“ (With Character!)

RATINGS

• Appearance: 3 / 5
• Smell: 2,5 / 5
• Taste: 2,5 / 5
• Overall: 2,5 / 5

Tecate