Paceña Centenario

Brewed by Cervecería Boliviana Nacional (Quilmes)
Style: Pale Lager
La Paz, Bolivia

Bottle on 09/12/2009/ Very clear pale yellow body with a medium frothy white head. Sweet corn and honey aroma. Sweet honey and corn flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.

Bottle from Malt & Vine. Pours light gold with a frothy, somewhat clingy, white head. Aromas of pale malt and grass. Near medium body with frothy, sharpish carbonation. It’s crisp and clean. A little bready with enough nobel hop. Finishes almost dry. A good beer. Better than most southern pale lagers by far.

33cl bottle, as pictured. Pours a sterile clear, straw yellow with a small white head. Limited retention and lacing. Aroma is rather sweet, of kiwi, hops and malt. Reminds me of pee a little bit. Mouth feel is not too watery, but texture is rather thin and light-bodied. Medium carbonation. Herbaceous notes, complemented by citrus and malt, make for a fairly interesting mix of flavours (for a lager, anyway!), a note of aniseed in there, too. Which make for a rather sweetish lager that may not be everybody’s cup of tee, err, pint of beer. Finish is dry and hoppy, though, with a very moderately bitter after taste. Likeable "light" lager, a lot less bland than some.

Pretty standard affair. Cleaner than many pale lagers. Rather watery. Hay. Somewhat sweet.

@Richmond Gathering 9-courtesy maniac-12oz bottle-pours a disappearing white head and yellow color. Aroma is grassy/some spice hops, soapy, grain. Taste is grassy/some spice hops, soapy, grain-honey, some chemical.

Grainy adjunct nose but not skunky. Clear very light straw. High carbonation with slight carbonic bite. Fairly clean grainy, with dry lightly bitter finish.

Very pale yellow, decent head. Aroma is a bit adjuncty. Flavor is rice, good bit of corn. Maybe some slight hay hops on finish. Residual artificial honey sweetness. Not awful.