Dorada Draft

Brewed by Cerveceria Centro Americana
Style: Pale Lager
Guatemala City, Guatemala

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

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<i>Bottled. </i> Clear golden, brief head. Neutral aroma. Medium sweet with clean, hard mouthfeel. Some faint corn and fruitiness, then nothing. No bitterness.

Very pale; coarse grain aroma with slight suggestion of passion fruit; light palate - barbequed corn on the cob. Quick finish.

Bottle Golden yellow colour. Bit malty aroma with bit fruity hops. Bit waterish smooth flavour of malt. Noy much about it really but goes down easy.

Bottle... AWOL... Clear, light yellow lager with a small, fizzy, white head. Grainy, herbal aroma. Sweet, pale malt flavor balanced nicely by soft, mineral bitterness. Medium-bodied with a skim-milk mouthfeel and middling carbonation. Stale finish. Thus concludes A Week of Lagers!... thank God

clear pale yellow colour, fine head, nice lace, light notes of orange and peanuts in the nose, medium-bodied, smooth and quite netral flavour - an honest beer

Very, very pale yellow but with heavy beading, a creamy sustained head, and solid lacing. Very faint malt aroma with a light flavor of sugary sweet malts and a suggestion of earthy hops in the finish.

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The aroma is sour with corn and adjuncts with a touch of funk. The appearance is very pale gold with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma with a sulfur like finish. The palate is thin. Overall this is not a beer you want.

In the clear bottle. YUCK! This tasted like Pepe LePew crawled into the bottle and took a dump. So incredibly skunky that it could not be finished. Danger Will Robinson! Stay away from the clear bottled Central and South American beers. Nice lacing, though. A visually pretty beer.

Straw/grainy malt aroma with some smokey wisps. Flavor is characteristic of malty Central American/Caribbean pilslagers, but lighter. Slightly tart, mildly sweet, malt-grainy. Side-of-the-tongue lager twang and a little clingy in the palate. I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by this beer, it was pretty skunky on opening, but that dissipated rapidly. Bad appearance marks for a crappy label, twist off cap, clear bottle and pale beer -- which also had me fearing the worst. Just above midline.

UPDATED: JAN 31, 2006 Good!, It said Gallo, but I know gallo and it wasn’t, but it had the sublabel whic said Draft, and the alcohol percentage fits. So, it tastes like a Modelo especial but lighter, it is ok.