El Rey Mexican Style Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a golden yellow color with only a slight head by the time it got to the table and was served with a lime. The scent was very limey and that was about it. The taste was also rather strong with lime flavors but yet was crisp and clean with a light taste. It drank rather smooth and finished clean. Not an ideal beer for every drinking occasion but is by far a better choice than Bud Light Lime.

This one was different and the brewery thought outside the box. Not a typical brew for a brewery to do and sprecher did a great job. Much better than a swill corona or tecate. Golden color, smells citrus, served with a lime, no lace, light hops, light malts, great beer overall

Courtesy of Skyview. Pale yellow color with a medium head. Light corn and grain aroma. Much the same for taste. Light bodied. Corn intensifies.

I had this on tap at Sprechers restaurant in Madison, WI. Had no idea what it was. Served in a shaker, it was light gold and perfectly clear. Not much of a head and served with a lemon wedge. Tartness in aroma. I expected a very light tasting beer but found this to be quite tasty. Citrus dominated and very thirst quenching. Not a lot of carbonation.

You know, not too bad. It is an ale, after all, not a lager and it is that way. With an aggressive pour there was a good sized white head that soon settled down and no lace. Aroma was the best part- quite spicey, malt, hop. Flavor has some of that, malt comes out more, maybe some corn, a little chalk, and wet grain. Body is ok and thankfully so is carbonation. Finish is like flavor and of medium length. Straightforward, no frills, blonde ale.

Straw color with a diminishing white head. Scents of lightly toasted grains and a bit of grassy hops. Light sweetness. Some pale malt, light bitterness, and salt. A bit watery.

Golden pour... funky aroma.... Taste is hard to expkain has some lemon finish sort of dry...just ok..

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at the Sprecher brewery north of Milwaukee, WI. Pours a clear golden straw colored brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a thin white ring and film top. Aroma of golden grain malt, a hint of corn, some grassy hops and a touch of butter. Taste is light bodied, flavors of golden grain malt, corn husk, and a touch of salt. Finish is crisp, a hint of grassy hops, a touch of honey and some subdued bitterness that quickly disappears. A touch better than the regular macro produced lagers.

This is one of those beers where i think maybe it might have been "better" put into context. That is if there is a "context". Is this supposed to be some sort of a re-creation of a historical style of beer from Mexico? Is there at very least some president for calling this beer "Mexican Style" outside of the fact that it is contract brewed for a Mexican super market? I don’t know.

The beer pours a golden color with a big white head.

The aroma is faint, but gets a little bit more pronouced as the beer warms. Generally is smells like corn flour with a little bit of fruit that’s starting to get a little funky.

The flavor holds this weird love hate thing with me, it’s weird, and sort of funky, salty, kind of tart, but corny and kind of Malt liquor-y. It’s like if you mixed some Corona, some Gose, and some Olde English 800 together. I like the Gose-y elements fine enough.

Totally weird but somehow not totally offensive.

Like an expensive bottle of Corona, nothing more, no matter what the fans tell you.