Apu Cerveza de Coca

Brewed by Backus y Johnston (SABMiller)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Lima, Peru

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Bottle 310ml.
Clear light to medium yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, fruity - coca - coca leaves ? urine, herb. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090813]

Bottled. A hazy light golden beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet and very spicy. The flavor is slightly acidic with notes of spices and citrus, leading to a dry spicy finish. Thanks Myrup for sharing.

Bottle 31 cl. Courtesy of Myrup. Pours a hazy pale yellow with a small off-white head. Weird, tart herbal aroma. Light body, a little low in carbonation, tart citrus and herbal notes. Tart finish without being infected. A very strange experience. 130809

31 cL bottle, courtesy of Myrup. Pours cloudy orange with a fully gone head. Distinct skunky aroma from a distance. Solid skunky aroma. Citric and skunky flavoured, rhubarb like citric flavoured. Herbal, skunky and citric finish.

Bottle at papsø. Clear yellow coloured with a small white head. Fruity and skunky aroma of sweat. Fruity and skunky flavour of marihuana and spices. Spicy finish.

Hazy golden with a tiny white short lasting head. Flavour had loads of what I presume coca leaves, and herbal notes. Finished spicy.

Bottle. Cloudy orange with a fast disappearing head. Refreshing lemony and spicy nose, but also some wet cardboard notes. Sharp acidic flavours, borderline case. Well-carbonated. Probably a beer gone over the top, but at least not boring.

Disturbing since the name. Couldn’t take it home with me. The smell reminds me a little the aroma of the marihuana (not that I have tasted that crap) and the taste is a little sour a kind of onion, like someone said. Cloudy texture and weird aftertaste.

The Google translation of the Commercial Description:
The coca plant sacred to the Incas made marvel is a true natural pharmacy, provide protein, vitamins, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, calories, calcium, phosphorus and iron from other components essential to a balanced diet, and perfect health.

To my great misfortune, I found a bottle of this crap in Cusco. Tastes nothing like maté de coca, coca leaves or chicha. Unless the chicha was made rather badly, and was left under a parked carfor a couple of months. Tastes like green apples, cabbage, aluminum and yesterdays sour dishwater with just a dash of butter: pretty much a one-bottle dictionary of all known serious beer flaws.

I thought I had tried some broken beers before, but that was before I had a chance to try Apu Cerveza de Coca. This is some seriously nasty shit.

(bottle) My nephew brought me a bottle from Peru. Clear yellow with small white head. Faint herbal aroma. Flavor was overwhelmed by grassy/herbal flavor. Obviously a novelty beer - not one you’d buy regularly.