Cerveza Aguila

Brewed by Grupo Empresarial Bavaria (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Bogota, Colombia

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

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Golden colour with a very fast dissapering head. Mine smells and tastes of very bad whisky mixed with a lot of water.

Can. INoS. The colour is that of a beer protesting being poured. Headless, defiantly transparent. Sweet strangely vegetal aroma but not as anemicly offensive as the previous beer. Boring, bland, watery. Dilute apple juice finish. Flavour is as inoffensive as the words of a mime.

Thanks to my Dad for bringing these back for me. Pale, pale yellow, with very limited white head. Massive polluted corn water aroma. Cardboard flavours with corn rain water finish. Very watery, very poor. But it’s from Columbia, which is cool. Thanks to Len SR for the bottle.

UPDATED: MAR 3, 2008 330ml Twist-off bottle . Pours clear, pale yellow with white fizzy head. Do you remember the first time you had tried Heineken? Well it seems they wanted to clone the recipe and put it in their own bottles,but failed. Aroma of corn, vegetables, and skunk. Flavor is of corn syrup and water. Finishes with a bitterness of a vile of hop essence oil. Sorry Aguila, you have failed. But at least Colombia’s women are beautiful. 25FEB08

Bad for a crappy third-world lager. Nose is mildly sour but largely nonexistent. Using the word "taste" would require an act of generosity I'm just not prepare to participate in at this point. Some sweetness, no skunkiness, but nothing going on. You'd think a country with millions in drug money could aford to do a decent beer. There, I've done my horrible little national stereotype for the month. I'm not proud, but, then again, noone in Colombia should be proud of this crap.

Bottle. Crystal clear light gold body... lively carbonation, thin white head and aromas of skunky hops and... wait... that’s it... just skunky hops. Flavor is a sweet sticky mess of corn syrup and a little kick of old yucky hops. O, Colombia... que paso en Colombia para inspirar esto? Pobre... simplemente pobre.

Although I'm not afraid to be a contrarian and say when I think I've found a good international lager (e.g. Salva Vida and Tropical come to mind), I couldn't be contrarian with this Aguila even if I wanted to. It's just too lame. Massively fizzy and of a watery nature, this Colombian lager is am embarrassment to the nation that gave us the Medillin Cartel and the World Cup Soccer megaflop of 1994 (Columbia scored an own-goal versus the US and the Columbian scorer was later gunned down for his mistake). I tasted it so you don't have to.

I really do not understand how people consistently drink this crap. This is not good any way you look at it. Looks like corn and tastes like the adjuncts of the same. Very bland and watery.

San Andreas, Columbia. Their crap beer as I was told by the Columbians, but was also told that Club Colombia was their ’good’ beer. Worse then Corona. Pale, bland, skunky it would be a big sell here in the states.

Wee, "thanks" Unclemattie for bringing this to the kp tasting: Straw hue, fizzy head and spotty lace... yep the best part of this beer is the appearance... then you get a bountiful amount of corn and wet musty grains on the nose along with band-aids and a hint of freshly mown grass. Then we have the artificial and medicinal flavors. Assisted by a watery and fizzy mouth feel this god awful beer should be avoided unless free. At least Colombia harvest some good coffee...