Your Favorite Mexican Beer, If Any
Oct 12, 2018, 4:15 pm
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Your Favorite Mexican Beer, If Any
I had a late lunch at a Mexican restaurant that I still miss 9 years after leaving this town. As usual I ordered a Dos Equis Amber to accompany my carnitas. It just feels right, although I rarely bring home a six pack of the stuff.
I have tried other Mexican beers, often at someone else's recommendation, and I just don't like any of them: Modelo Negra, Corona, Pacifico, Tecate, et al.
Is there one better than Dos Equis that I have overlooked?
I have tried other Mexican beers, often at someone else's recommendation, and I just don't like any of them: Modelo Negra, Corona, Pacifico, Tecate, et al.
Is there one better than Dos Equis that I have overlooked?
Oct 12, 2018, 5:35 pm
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Negra Modelo is a great beer, and it's also 5.4%.
Just about everything else is absolute piss water 4.2% ...corona, corona light, tecate, sol, pacifico, dos equis etc...it's all two steps below bud lights but retails for 50% more per six pack. Always amazes me.
Just about everything else is absolute piss water 4.2% ...corona, corona light, tecate, sol, pacifico, dos equis etc...it's all two steps below bud lights but retails for 50% more per six pack. Always amazes me.
Oct 12, 2018, 7:58 pm
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Most Mexican beers are "Vienna style lagers". They are meant to be light. And that's not what I enjoy. Dos Equis Amber and Modelo Negra (they renamed it to sound more Spanish?) are exceptions. There may be others. For whatever reason, I did not like the flavor of Modelo Negra. All the local Mexicans drink Tecate. I have no idea why. To me it is skunky.
Oct 13, 2018, 9:49 am
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I've always liked Negra Modelo.
Agree that most Mexican beers are light lagers - which makes sense given the Mexican climate. Who wants a dark, heavy beer when it's hot and humid? I personally have always liked Pacifico, not necessarily because it's an objectively good beer (it's more or less Bud Light) but because I associate it with when I lived in San Francisco. Same with Tecate.
Speaking of San Francisco, my roommate when I was there once remarked, "Every country has a national beer that tastes like Bud Light." So true.
Because it's cheap. Same reason so many Americans drink Bud Light.
Agree that most Mexican beers are light lagers - which makes sense given the Mexican climate. Who wants a dark, heavy beer when it's hot and humid? I personally have always liked Pacifico, not necessarily because it's an objectively good beer (it's more or less Bud Light) but because I associate it with when I lived in San Francisco. Same with Tecate.
Speaking of San Francisco, my roommate when I was there once remarked, "Every country has a national beer that tastes like Bud Light." So true.
Because it's cheap. Same reason so many Americans drink Bud Light.
Oct 13, 2018, 9:55 pm
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I agree that the most marketed Mexican beers are mostly crap. Corona is especially awful. But high-dollar advertising has so many Americans convinced it's a premium product. Ugh. My go-to Mexican beer for many years has been Negra Modelo. Dos Equis Amber doesn't suck.
Oct 23, 2018, 9:25 pm
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Bohemia. It was one of the first beers I drank and my dad had actually done a deal for them to get them financing when he was a lawyer so I always think of him when I have one. With a shot of tequila on the side, of course.
Oct 24, 2018, 12:44 am
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I have yet to find an American beer that checks all of my boxes. Reminds me of buying wireless phones where I seemingly have to compromise in one area or another because the masses/manufacturers have differing ideas regarding the finished product.
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