Trader José Premium Lager

Brewed by Cervecería Mexicana
Style: Pale Lager
Tecate, Mexico

Clear-glassed bottle. Grassy corn syrup for a nose, but there is a trace of hops! Clear yellow pour with a creamy bright white head. Taste is sweet and very corny, pale malt is of poor quality. Grassiness pushed way toward the back, but at least there’s some crispness. Light, non-watery body.

Inoffensive pale lager. We stopped by TJ’s to pick up something light and Mexican to go with enchiladas - this worked out perfectly with a wedge of lime. It doesn’t really stand on it’s own. I see that it’s made in Tecate - I should really try this next to a Tecate and compare.

Inoffensive light golden crisp dry, better with limes and cold, touch of salt, decent hop backbone.

Bottle from Cincy store. Poured clear pale color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate sweet grassy aroma. Light to medium body with a thin texture and soft carbonation. Light sweet flavor with soft grassy sweet finish of short duration. Worth trying once.

12oz Bottle - Trader Joes - Tacoma, WA
Aroma – Light malt aroma no hops found in the nose.
Appearance – Golden yellow in color, Nice head and clear.
Flavor – A nice easy to light lager beer. Nothing special just super easy to drink.
Palate – Nice Mouthfeel, great texture with a good dry finish.
Overall – A easy to drink lawnmower beer with a tad more flavor than the big boys beers.

12oz bottle. Clear yellow with a fluffy white head. Slight skunk and hops in the aroma. I had this right after a corona, and it definitely had more sweetness and body, though it also had more DMS; I definitely got a solid buttered popcorn flavor. Overall, more flavor, but nothing to write home about. I would pick it over Corona on principle and price, but the buttery flavor gets in the way of making it truly drinkable.

Bottled. Premium lager? Their call, not mine. Decent lager but nothing special. Grass and lime in the aroma and flavour. Strange long lasting bitterness in the finish. Certainly drinkable but nothing I’ll grab again.

12 oz. bottle from Trader Joe’s Pacific Beach. Clear golden with a foamy white head. Typical lager grainy malty aroma, light floral hops, but dominated by malts. Sweet corn and malts, hints of bitterness from grassy hops, drinkable but nothing special at all. Light to medium body, slightly oily with light carbonation.