Sol (Mexico)

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

Bottle at home. Clear yellow coloured with a medium sized white head. Aroma of corn, marzipan and alcohol. Flavour of corn and cardboard with notes of hops. Watery.

Clear golden colored beer, thus it’s name Sol which means sun in Spanish. Very light body with a hint of hops. In South TX it is common to add a lime and at times some salt to the beer to give it more flavor. Ideal for very hot summer days especially when temperatures top 95+ degrees and you want a cold and refreshing beer that won’t sit to heavy on your palate. Not the best of the mexican beers but not a bad choice either.

Bottle - Cosco mix pack. Sol or Tecate?? What is the difference? I drank these one after the other and can’t tell the difference. I give them both a 2 for flavor because I do taste some hops after the beer sat there and warmed up a little. Palete OK. I’m not sure if they even us malt in this beer; rice and corn sugar?? Not impressed!

Clear bottle: Skunked grain smell. Clear yellow no head. Flavorless. It will get you drunk, but will give you no pleasure on the way. Detestable. I like to reserve goose eggs for truly awful beers, but I can’t for the life of me find anything positive to say about this. Ingredients: Water, grain alcohol, Yellow #5

12oz bottle. Pours bright yellow with a fully receding off-white head. Aroma of pungent corn, cereal grain, and metallic yeast. Taste is mostly corn with a faint amount of bitterness. Thin bodied with fizzy carbonation. Commodity lager for thoughtless consumption.

Bottle 330 ml. Too easygoing due to low alcohol percentage. That could give this one a taste boost but no. I felt no taste at all. Better call beers of that kind lemonades since there’s little difference. No more to say. Waste of time and money. If you haven’t tasted this one please make a favor to yourselves and don’t do it! All you fellows mexicans better stick to tequilla!

Always a challenge to rate "Island" lagers due to low variability, but here goes. Light yellow pour with a thin white head. Aroma of corn and hay. Slight malt in the taste along with corn which otherwise dominates. Better than most of the style, but then again not a very difficult accomplishment.

Pours yellow/gold, with a white head. Aroma is corn , grain, and a bit of hops. Flavor is corn, grain, and sugar. Like Corona, this best in the summer, and server really cold.