Baja

Brewed by Cerveceria Centro Americana
Style: Pale Lager
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (cereal, grain/husks), trace hops (herbs), with a note of DMS, hint of plastic. Flavor is moderately sweet, trace bitterness. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, slightly husky/unclean. Light to medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Is there no end to these things?

Woohoo rating #7...Well the bottle looks cool and it seems to be a Cerveza to enjoy in the blazing sun but...the aroma has notes of vegetables (corn mostly) and slightly industry cleaner. Some grassy hops and bready malt as well on the nose. The taste is mostly sweet bread with some grassy and astrengent notes on the finish. A funky acidic quality makes a kick hit and is unpleasant. This is not refreshing or good, but then it is cheap. A beer that could use a lime or lemon wedge.

Proof that every milestone odesn’t have to have a memorable beer. Except this is my first Guatemala beer - I’m gittin’ my Guat on! Sorry. Anyway, this one poured a neon yellow with an acceptable sized white head. Decent aroma (nicely skunk-free) of corn, lemon and bread. Acceptable malty flavor and rather smooth, with the only drawback being an unpleasent sour, astringent finish. Better than expected.

I hate to refer to a beer as piss but this beer falls in that category. The aroma is acidic with nothing but corn. The appearance is pale gold with almost no head and white chunks at the bottom. The flavor is weak but what flavor it has is corn and astringent bitterness. The palate is watery. Overall I hate it. I can’t even finish it.

15-May-08 (12-oz bottle: BevMo in La Jolla, CA) A low-budget, Guatelmalan-made "Mexican" beer hoping to appeal to broke Corona drinkers, this crystal-clear, straw-colored offering is sweet, corny and adjuncty. The flavor is thin and gets thinner in the finish, but leaves a bad aftertaste in the mouth. No hop flavor and just a touch of bitterness, but probably not from hops. Light in body and surprisingly light in carbonation too. Cheesy, stinky, funky nose. The white head is about a quarter-inch in height and settles to a partial film, but it has left an irregular patch of lace on the glass. This is just bad cheap beer. If Baja Lager is all you can afford, you’re better off drinking fluorinated city water out of the tap -- it tasted better.

Can’t believe I found this at a local old steel town bar on Main Street in Aliquippa. Ubiquitous pale yellow american lager look. Slight off veggie cabage aroma, probably from the clear bottle. Industrial citrus flavor of beer. Typical central american lager flavors. Processed lager finish. Not too bad.

Pours a golden yellow with a white head. This is basically corona in every way even down to the similar bottle. Corny cheap taste with nothing really redeaming.

Bottle (clear, with palm trees). Pours a very light yellow with fizzy white head. A bushel of corn and a touch of skunk in the nose. Maybe some cleaning products, too. It tastes like corn, wet hay, and mop water. They make a kind of complex, although not terribly pleasant, flavor. I’ve had worse, but, hrm, not buying it again.

Bottle. Waldo’s Pizza KC. Very normal lager. Not much aroma, not much taste. At one point, I thought I caught a dirty dish rag vibe, but it passed.

12oz bottle. Filtered with a pale golden hue. Slight ring of white head. Grainy bready almost burnt malt aroma. Slight hint of citrus. Typical corny flavor. Easy flavor and a typical south o’ the border style.