Tecate

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

On tap at a wedding. Wow, this is awful. Fizzy clear yellow color with a quickly fading white head. Aroma is rice, corn, and sweet pale malt. Flavor is more of the same, really grainy, without much to it. Palate is pretty watery with high carbonation. Did a side-by-side with Budweiser, and they are almost exactly the same beer.

Serving: 24 oz. can. Gotta love the tallboy! Appearance: Pale gold with an effervescent white head. The head is gone pretty quickly with no lacing left behind. Aroma: Light grain and corn notes. Not much else. Flavor: Grainy with a touch of alcohol and some sweet adjunct notes. While this isn’t necessarily a good thing, it certainly could be worse. Palate: Medium-high carbonation with a medium-light mouthfeel and a medium short, slightly sweet finish. Overall: It actually isn’t a bad pairing with spicy Mexican food but it really isn’t anything you want to drink on a consistent basis.

Mexican Nite Cerveza Numero Dos! 12 oz bottle. I often hear people talk of this beer and how superior it is to most other Mexican beers. Let’s see how it holds up. Aroma is of an old gym locker, just like the Corona. Another whiff gives off a strong presence of stale cheap adjunct grains, some alcohol. Pale gold hue, with no head, bad lacing. It looks almost identical to the Corona. 1st taste impression: is this Corona bottled in a Tecate bottle? It tastes the same: slightly sweet, watery. A little less carbonation than the Corona, but otherwise pretty much the same beer.

My current favorite Mexican beer, Served best ice cold in the can, rim coated with lime, then dipped in salt.

A beer that almost attemtps to lack flavor. The light complexity and barely noticeable taste made me think that I was drinking mineral water splashed with yellow six food coloring.

Bottle. Pours a copper body with a white head. Dank malts, nutty, light grain, some dried fruit or corn like. Sweet and mildly bitter. Better than the light for sure.

Can: at center square eatery while watching England trounce some other country in soccer. the sweaty glass is getting in the way of the moderate golden color. A light corniness and light body equal a sweeter drinkability than Dos Equis but not by much. Lime helps enduring htis swill.