Carta Blanca

Brewed by FEMSA - Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Monterrey/Veracruz-Llave, Mexico

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

Bottled. A pale golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of cardboard as well as lighter notes of corn and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, cardboard, and corn, leading to a dry cardboard finish. Boring.

Bottle. WOOHOO! A pale lager!!! Pour is predictable... aroma is predictable. Flavor is corny, sweet and predictable. Fail!

Meh. Pale yellow with almost no head - looked watery and was. Just barely above your typical mexican pee water and tasted pretty plain aside from the feeling that i was licking a dead lawn. Had a faint fruity taste after the weak malt dissapeared. Smelt like something. Almost no carbonation. Nearest comparison would be, oh, say, Rochefort 10 :)

Pours yellow with no head. Little flavor and extremely watery...it is what it is...

Nice golden color. Slight malty aroma with no hops to speak of. Malty flavor with a hint of citrus in the aftertaste. Overall, clean & easy drinking... at least its not offensive.

Heavy sweet cream of corn nose, with some slight stale spices. Decent gold color, surprisingly lively medium long lasting head. Slightly sweet tasting with not much bitterness, not very balanced. Good carbonation, medium body, almost too full in the mouth, not at all crisp, had a sticky finish. Even in the realm of Mexican beer (which I have no problem drinking given the occasion), this is a bad choice.

From 50cl can, yellow carbonated with medium disappearing head, aroma of malt brown sugar and some skunky nose, flavor is biscuit sweet with nice lemon sourness and vegy earthy finish.

Sampled at the pre-Cinco de Mayo tasting at Blacklick Wine and Spirits on 5.1.09. Semi-cloudy gold with a medium white head. Some hop in the nose along with lager yeast. Similar flavor.