Balboa

Brewed by Cerveceria Nacional Panama (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Panama, Panama

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

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There really isn’t anything to say about Latin American beers. They are all the same: pale, watery and bland.

Pale gold, mostly inoffensive, and mostly omnipresent in Panama. Has a quietly firm bitterness, finishes a touch dry, and mercifully lacks sweetness as there is not enough here to support it. Engineered to be drunk cold, in quantity.

Can 330ml in Panama
Pale yellow color, good white head. Aroma of metal and green apples. Light bodied. Slightly acidic, flaovr of barley malt and corn, some fruityness. Faint hops. Typical tropical lager. When fresh from tap, it is probably the best of 4 main brands in Panama as it is slightly maltier than the rest.

About the best beer in the parts. Panama comes a close second. This beer is a little bit maltier and heavier than the other beers around. I like to drink this at the bar.

UPDATED: AUG 25, 2010 At a tasting, thanks DSG, corn like flavor, tasteless and pointless beer, pretty bad overall.

Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks Aner! Clear pale golden with a white head. Weak aroma with some malt, cereals and citric hints. Tastes like corn. Light-bodied.

At a tasting: corn, some lemony notes besids that i have nothing else to write, a waste of water though no offensive water.

At a tasting, thanks DSG, smallish head, extremely pale yellow colour, strong aroma of cardboard, some corn and maybe a hint of malt, your ususal crappy lagger.

At the Grand Lager Tasting, thanks DSG, pours pale yellow with a small white head, aroma of urine, corn, acids and malt, flavor of corn, popcorn, newspaper with some harsh dryness, watery and difficult to drink.

Yellow pour with white head and lace. Aroma of paper and corn. Paper, corn, with a dry finish. thin and watery but very drinkable.