Sol (Mexico)

Brewed by FEMSA
Style: Pale Lager
Monterrey/Veracruz-Llave, Mexico

Bottle. Pours straw yellow with a reasonable white head. The aroma is sweet malt, corn, lemon-pepper seasoning, and less skunk than I was expecting with the clear bottle. The flavor is corn husks, cardboard, straight barley, a little bit of papery hops, and seltzer water. I get some lemon peel once in a while. Not good beer.

Bottle. Slightly malty aroma. Very light golden. Very faint taste, with a slight malty finish.

Even worse than corona. A feat I never assumed possible. Watery and tasteless

I had the bottle version and knew it would not be corona when I opened it, boy was I right! This is grass in some water and sweetener added. Too watery for me.

Bottle: Poured a golden color with a light white head. Aroma is sweet and grassy. Taste is sweet with grains and light malts.

It comes in a clear bottle, so it is easy to see that this is a typical, not inspiring clear straw yellow. Aroma is so-so; I had a hard time discerning it thanks to the obligatory lime, which masked what little aroma the beer has. Flavor is typical of a lager, rather thin and not memorable. Texture is smooth - the best aspect of this beer.

12oz can enjoyed while at the resort in Mexico (Cancun). Yellow onion with a much head (which is small) as any other Mexican brew I’ve had so far. A bit of sweetness to the aroma and something that is just shy of nasty (who knows what that was). The flavor was less nasty than I had braced myself for (or that I remembered from years ago…Perhaps this is “New Sol”). A bit sweet but not overly so like some of the other Vienna’s I tried. Just an ordinary Pale Lager with nothing much to say.

Bottiglia da 33cl comprata al supermercato, costava pochissimo ed è un +1 su ratebeer. Mah... non sono sicuro che valesse la pena, col senno di poi :)