Dos Equis XX Ambar (Amber)

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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tap. my go to beer at a local Mexican restaurant where the food is good, but the beer selection...not so great. pours brownish amber with little head or lacing. aroma and taste is some cereal grains and mild caramel. not a bad beer. my guilty pleasure with Mexican food.

Bottle-Looks good when your pour with an amber color and medium head that lasts. That’s the high point, the aroma is old, spent, stale? I’m not sure which. No taste to note, especially malt or caramel, no real afteraste either, mostly water. At least I got this beer out of the way. Produce place, 1.49

poured an interestingly rusty color, smelled somewhat old and grainy with sweetness in the background...Extremely metallic flavors and other mildewy nonsense...Damn, has it always been this bad? Is this bottle just old and oxidized? The very perfect word to describe this beer would be "Stale"..But it doesn’t necessarily taste like its past its prime...it tastes like it never had a prime to begin with.

Draft. Clear copper pour, small fizzy head. Cheap grain, slight sweetness, and stale hops. Very light and watery.

~Sweet corny biscuity malt aroma, sour notes and spicy hops. ~Pours a clear amber color with small lasting white head. ~Malty biscuity malts with some sour tang notes and light spicy hop. ~Med body, med high CO2, malty slightly spicy finish, ~Ok beer. Could drink a few of these with spicy food.

After the beer was served in the glass there was found a lasting quantity wall adhesive white foam collar which was fine and even of structure. The beer also contained much carbonic acid in the glass. The beer has a clear amber color and a watery taste. The after tast of the beer is light hoppy bitter with a light roasted malty touch . This beer smells to malty.

Where does the "dark" moniker come from? Surely not the flavor. If we’re getting a brown hue, it has to be from an exorbitant amount of food coloring, right? Because this beer is like 2% malt and 98% water and anger. No reason for anyone to drink this, unless their other option is O’Douls. What is this, carbonated tap water? Ugh.

Dark amberish pour with almost no head. Not much aroma beyond some caramel malt and grain. Same holds true for the taste. Body... this is from Mexico... Not a bad beer if the options are really limited, say, from a convenience store or restaurant, and it is far better than most Mexican beers, but there’s really nothing special about this.

I have yet to find a widely available Mexican beer I enjoy. This one has more character than its competitors (including the lighter colored Dos Equis). Tastes better than it smells. Not bad but not very memorable either.

12 oz bottle from LCBO. Pours a clear amber colour with modest-sized slightly off-white head. Skunky aroma of stale grains/corn. Taste is slightly better with corn, apple, grains and a hint of caramel. On the thin side. Smells pretty gross but otherwise just mediocre.