Dos Equis XX Special Lager

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

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

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draft - pours pale yellow with quickly diminishing head and light lacing. light malt flavor. Taste is minimal but balanced between bitterness and sweetness. watery and light overall.

Bottle thx to benzai. Pale, clear yellow colour with a small white head. Smells corn, malts and rice. Tastes rice, cheap, bad, cardboard. Watery and thin.

Clear golden colour with small collapsing frothy white head. Corn aroma, some hay. Monotonous slightly sweet taste, tends toward a hop note on the edge to soapiness. Nothing displeasing in it, but totally boring.

Bottle. Pours a light golden body with pearly carbonation despite having virtually no head. Nose is sweet grainy malts, maize and very little else. Taste is sweet maize tones, hints of vegetables. Very little bitterness, only enough to (barely) balance out the sweet corn-ish malt notes. A bit watery, with a surprisingly oily palate but nevertheless an easy drinker like its supposed to. Not too horrible for a pale lager of this format, and certainly no worse than it’s "countrymen" Corona or Sol, which taste even less. Still, pretty damn boring.

Es agua, sin aroma ni sabor ni cuerpo. Por el color parece que puede tener sabor pero.... Muy liviana y suave como son las cervezas rubias industriales mexicanas.

Tap @ Timbers, Denver. Pours very light yellow with a small offwhite head. Aroma of weak malt, light citruss. Taste is sweet malt, straw and citruss. Thin watery body, low carbonation. 190212

12oz bottle. Clear pale yellow color, lots of big bubbles on the side of the glass. Thin white bubbly head, fading to minimal. Sharp, rough carbonation prevents it from being very drinkable, as does the sort of chalky texture. The beer does have a special something to it that differentiates it from macro-american-lagers, but by no means justifies the import premium. The funk is a little... more mexican? There might be a light spice in there, and some fruity lemon notes. Maybe a hint of smokiness. Taste is a little sour zest, nothing else really. I don’t always drink beer... Who am I kidding, I drink beer all the time, I love beer. But this is hopefully the last time I’ll have a dos equis. I guess that marketing campaign makes some sense - this is a beer for people who don’t love beer (but want to hold something that proves how interesting they are, apparently)

Bottle from Wine Rack Guildford. Pours a light gold colour with a thin white head, no real aroma as such the taste is light hops with a dry finish.

Bue à Playa Del Carmen au Mexique. Quand on a les pieds dans le sable on peut devenir moins objectif...Couleur jaune paille, mousse blanche. Maïs et un peu de malt, peu de houblon. Finale sans histoire, très douce. La XX est un classique.

Lager não-maltada um pouco melhor do que as outras mexicanas com mesmo processo de fabricação. Porém continua enjoativa, sendo bebível somente muito, mas muito gelada mesmo.