Dos Equis XX Ambar

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

An amber-brown (tea like) pour with white head. The aroma is very mild with some bready malt coming through. The taste is soft, almost flat, with medium sweetness and a clean finish.

Clear light amber color with a light fluffy head. Light malt aroma. Light malt flavor with only a touch of bitterness. Somewhat thin in palate. A decent mild vienna.

Had from 12 oz. bottle. Pours amber / brown with slight white head and no lacing. Heavily carbonated, lacking in flavor. Aroma f just roasted malts and grains. Flavor is bland, watery, and boring. Nothing special. A step up from the fizzy yellow crap that comes out of Mexico, but not a big step.

Pours amber with thin white head. Aroma of caramel malt and some skunky hops. Taste is corn, caramel, hard water and some funk that you only get with Mexican beer. With that said, I happen to like this. A good everyday drinking beer. Refreshing yet some malt backbone.

UPDATED: JUL 29, 2010 Good taste/aroma. Not very strong, but still pleasant to drink. Definitely better then Lager Especial. Update: Had this from the tap for a second tasting (above rating was in a bottle). I thought the bottle tasted great, but the tap had an odd taste - maybe grain/chemicals. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt, but the tap still wasn’t bad.

Bottle from Nuneaton Asda. Red with a patchy slick you couldn’t call a head. Arresting aroma of rust, shortcake, glue piped on Battenberg, fruit-flavoured boiled sweets; strange, utterly unlike anything I’ve drank of late, but not 100% unpleasant. Immediate card-like staleness, Disprin, sherbety emptiness, rotting vegetation on the palate. Superior, Mediterranean-style red mess; thin, sugared, industrial...but just about safe from a plugholing.

Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, S.A. de C.V.--Orizaba, Ver, Mexico--Dos Equis XX Amber Imported Beer--2003 12 oz. Bottle. 4.65% ABV. (4.0 / 5.0) Amber Lager. Clear rich bright amber color. Mild lacy head. Tangy CO2 malty floral hop front. Crisp toasted caramel dry sweet thin rich biscuit mild fruit body. Tangy citrus hop spice end. Rich Vienna Style Lager. Sampled 3/29/2004. Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma S.A.--Dos Equis Amber Cerveza 2007 12 oz. Bottle. 4.70% ABV. 25 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) Amber Lager. Foamy thin mild lace head. Clear bright thin dark amber color. Mild toasted floral fruit hop front. Crisp tangy smooth dry sweet light toffee fruit ester body. Crisp mild tangy clean hop spice end. Sampled 5/2/2007. Dos Equis Amber Cerveza XX--2009 12 oz. Bottle 4.70% ABV. 25 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) Amber Lager. Big foamy lacy off white head. Clear thin bright copper amber color. Crisp mild floral malt hop front. Zesty dry sweet mild toasted caramel delicate fruit amber body. Refreshing smooth mild hop light malt clean easy end. Stank hint. Tasty Amber Lager. Sampled 5/5/2009. 6-Pack $7.99.

Clean, malty lager, nose dominated by malt with a touch of grassy hops. Smooth, clean, light-medium bodied, refreshing.