Cucapá Obscura

Brewed by Cervecería Cucapá
Style: Brown Ale
Mexicali, Mexico

Serve in Dimpled mug

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12 oz bottle from Secret Santa ’09. Pours a clear cola like brown with a very minimal off white head. Aroma was sweet, like caramel. Moderate palate, average carbonation. Flavor is a bit on the sweet side. Tastes of chocolate covered cherries, caramel, nuts with a touch of coffee. My first Mexican beer.

Backlog Mexico january 2011 Bought/tasted at combined bar/shop The Beer Box in Playa del Carmen, tasted on bottle. Dark golden color, ok foam Medium body and complexity Integrated hoppy aromas and some toffee notes Enjoyable

Bottle shared by shigadeyo. Pours a clear cola brown with a small bubbly off white head. The nose has some toasted malts, some sweetness, light chocolate and faint hops. The flavor has more toasted bready malts with mild chocolate and hop notes. Dry with a lighter body. Pretty boring and serves as a tick.

12oz can. Nice half-finger khaki head, eventually fading to near-minimal. Mildly hazy (mostly clear) red / brown color. little lace. Smooth dry texture, moderate carbonation. Toasty malts, yet this still manages to taste kind of refreshing. Light flat hops. Satisfying, light bitter taste. Interesting ale with a good flavor.

Craft beer from Mexico? We shall see. Poured into a snifter. 3.0 A: Clear medium brown color. Two fingers of frothy tan head. Retention is average and no lacing is left. 3.0 S: Strange cinnamon-like spiciness is the strongest aroma. After that, there’s toastiness and a dry graininess. 2.5 T: Super dry. Toasty with a slight roastiness. Grainy. 2.5 M: Light to lighter medium body. A bit too much carbonation. No creaminess at all. 2.5 D: Pretty mediocre. Nothing about this makes me want to drink it again. Serving type: can Reviewed on: 03-15-2012 21:50:31

Pours a cloudy brown beer with a two finger beige head with regular retention, weak aroma with notes of nuts and metal, its a terrible aroma, meduim to light body, flavor is medium sour, medium bitter and low sweet, with notes of nuts, roasted malts and again metal, metalic bitter finish, very mediocre craft beer.

22 oz. bottle from Table and Vine for $5.99. Poured deep mahogany into my Newcastle glass. Light soapy head, leaving no lace. Nose has a strange sourness. Prunes and raisins. After sipping, there is no doubt some infection here. Because it tastes kind of like a Flanders Red gone wrong. Vinegar and real ripe fruit, with a sharp metallic finish. I drank a glass of it pretending it was sour/wild ale, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish the bomber. Stay away from this one.

Pours dark brown with beige head. One of the worst smelling beer I can remember. Smells like dirty clothes and sour milk. Taste is actually much better than I expected after that. Nutty with a roasted malt flavor. Not a really powerful brown ale but drinkable.

22oz bottle in a dimpled mug. Pours brown with a light beige head. Aroma of pale, caramel, and chocolate malts plus a little bit of hops. Flavor sort of like a pale lager mixed with a brown ale. Average texture. Not the best beer.

Clear and dark with a short lived sticky tan head. Malt and some kind of mint or candy spicy thing. The flavor was neither sweet nor bitter, but in some ways it lacked any clear flavor direction. Thin and boring.

Bottle. Brown pour with a very small head and sediment on the pour. Faint cherry and vinegar nose. Thin palate. Taste is kind of watery with a hint of pit fruit.