Tijuana Guera

Brewed by Consorcio Cervecero de Baja California
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Tijuana, BC, Mexico

Crisp yeasty aroma, flavor is buttery with bitter hoppy aftertaste. Hints of fruit. This is a really nice beer, great for a hot day in Tijuana.

Bottle:Cloudy pale gold with a small white fizzy head. Sour, skunky aroma of moist, spoiled grain. The flavor is sweet and too sweet, but fairly drinkable. The feel is thin and the aftertaste is gone rather quickly. Thanks Jordan for letting me raid your fridge door stuff on this one.

No, actually it dosen’t taste remotely like Corona. Try it again
My third favorite beer of my Cali trip, behind Beatification and Redemption. I had 2 draught pints at the Liar’s Club on 3/23/07
I think the draught nature of the beer worked heavily in its favor, as the bottled morena from the same brewer was nothing special at all. This one had a large enough white head that steadily faded to cover, leaving only a light filmy lace behind. Crystal clear, deep maize-golden with plenty of carbonation visible.
Beautiful yeast in the nose is authentic Czech pils yeast and full of that mineral-character associated with it. Plenty of crispness as it crackles on the arid finish. Malts are generally quite crisp and give some graininess, adding to the overall crisp nature of the beer, but they do yield a bit of light honey sweetness. Hops are very reserved in the nose. Distinct saaz grassiness, dry floral and hay notes, are not exactly bursting forth, but are nonetheless fresh and tastefully done. Though I guess these days, a top-notch beer almost has to be oozing strong, dry-hopped aromatics. Whatever, I thought the yeast and malt and absolute stark cleanliness of the beer more than made up for the only traditional hop rate.
Where the aroma fell short of overall strength, the flavor picked up the slack and then some. Delicious honey overtop crackers, with just a pinch of sweet dough thrown in. An ever-so-slight hint of corn-like biproduct from the pale malt and a fully biting, crisp, dry pils yeast finish that is complemented by soft floral and grassy hop notes. A bit of peppery/hay-like bitterness is quite reserved, but the beer is so crisp to begin with, it needs not rely on hop bitterness. High carbonation, appropriate to the style (though perhaps still a bit too high in an absolute sense) keeps it very light and refreshing. I can see how some would fault the lack of strong hop flavors/aromatics, but I think it really allows the obvious care in brewing to show through. The beer is no doubt lagered properly and brewed nearly-flawlessly. Why don’t we have a draught pils like this on the East coast?

This is a best seller in San Diego - I drink it regularly at The Liar’s Club in San Diego. Salud!

Bottle from Casa De Oro Liquor. Pours a medium golden color. Lightly sweet grainy aroma. Some fruity qualities as well. Bitter and grainy flavor. Spicy herbal hop finish. Nothing special.

Bottle (12oz). Pale, bright, oily gold with a small frothy white head, some small bubbles. Smells like peach and orange marmalade, orange zest and ginger, sweet lightly toasted caramel malt, maybe a hint of wet newsprint. Taste is harsh, like stale hop oil, burnt candied fruit and plastic. Thin body yet I almost had to choke it down - flat, harsh aftertaste - nah thanks.

Clean, light malt aroma. Maybe a touch of peach? Gold color with dusty motes (lightly filtered?), and a decent white head that went quickly away. Starts with a light malt sweetness that is almost immediately balanced by hop. The finish is lightly bitter. Arguably a light pilsener. Beats standard American large batch lagers by a lot. Beats standard large batch Mexican lagers by a lot. It’s not Pilsner Urquell, but it will do.

On Tap @ the Liar’s Club. Clear yellow with bright white head. Sweet malts in the aroma with some sugar. A surprisingly crisp hop flavor to go along with the sweet malts. Nice summer brew alternative to macro garbage “beer.”