Cucapá Lowrider Ale

Brewed by Cervecería Cucapá
Style: Specialty Grain
Mexicali, Mexico

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Rye based beer, from mexican artisan brewery Cucapa. A good try of an Ale made with an uncommon ingridient, medium body, decent finish, holds well on palate. The taste however is no more impressive than the one of a conventional mainstream ale.

clear dark amber color with no head. The aroma is heavy on sweet grain malt with some dark fruit and pencil rubber and grass. Taste is a big plum with definite alcohol note that lets you know its a strong ale. Really not great but glad that a Mexican craft beer is available. I would be happy to try more from this brewer

Bottle. Pours amber with off white head. Nose/taste of sticky buns, rye, bready malt, caramel and some muted fruits and grape skins. Medium body. Alcohol in finish.

Date: September 26, 2011
Mode: Bottle
Source: Greenville Beer Exchange
Appearance: clear amber, wispy beige head
Aroma: slightly sweet malt aroma, light spicyness, balancing earthyness
Body: slick buttery body
Flavor: sweet caramel and butterscotch flavor, light spicy rye, light hops, drying earthyness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 3/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.1/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: *+ /4

Bought @ Steins .. drank Oct 13 2011, 7:27pm at home all by myself .. . pours a medium copper tan .. medium to low foam .. . copper, dark honey, and touches of rye .. . nice mouthfeel, but coming from mexico i think this sat for just a touch to long.. . . lets flash the camera? thats stupid! --i’m in...

Pours copper and smells like cream soda and roasted malt. Creamy body that tastes of vanilla, caramel malt, lots of grapefruit in the finish and a wee heavy on the alcohol. Get’s better as it warms but the alcohol sticks out like a black man at a rodeo.

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2012 Buena cerveza de cucapa, es una rye dark ale con mucho lupulo, tiene un buen balance entre las notas dulces, principalmente de caramelo y de malta medianamente tostada, y las citricas de lupulo.

Bottle @ home. Red orange appearance with a cream colored head. Grainy rye, light caramel, light citrus aroma. Caramel rye malty, earthy hoppy flavor. Not all that exciting but drinkable.

Bottle. Head is initially very small, frothy, off-white to light brown, fully diminishing. Body is medium to dark amber. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, corn syrup), lightly to moderately hoppy (apricot), with a note of bubble gum. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic. Badly underattenuated, basically malt syrup and some fruity aroma hops. Difficult to drink...not too far away from Karo syrup.

Bottle. Translucent amber with small white ring of lace. Nose shows spicy rye, other sweeter malts, light pine and a bit of butter. Flavor is interesting. Mouthfeel is quite thin with some rye, sweetness, more diactetyl.