Gallo

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

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

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Looks pale straw in color. Thin fizzy head. Funky aroma and slight metallic tinge in the flavor. Basically it’s just what you would expect from an international macro lager.

bottle, pours light yellow with a medium frothy white head. Aroma is soapy and skunky with thin corn grits. Flavor is thin grassy grains, not too sweet which I actually like. Ends with a lingering skunky hop note. Not that bad.

Bottle - clear gold, smells like sawdust and barnyard things. Taste is carbonated and metallic. Another meh.

I swear this stuff smells faintly of peanut butter. Pours urine from bottle with a little but of white foam. has a metallic taste to it. Finish is water to balance the carbonation on the tongue. Famosa! Spanish for drainpour.

The beer pours a clear light yellow color with a decent-sized white head. The aroma is grain with a little bit of citrus notes mixed in. The flavor is full of grain, some malt sweetness and a little bit or orange or lemon. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. The beer is not exciting at all, but it is not offensive like so many other Central American pale lagers. You can do worse than this.

beer from guatemala. I expected this to taste like muscles and balls. I thought for sure it would be salty and corn-ridden. actually tastes a bit like beer. pretty refreshing. My bottle says "famosa". not the best thing I’ve had but pleasantly surprised by how unoffensive this is. Go chicken!

I enjoy trying beers from various countries; even if I don’t care for them I am glad to give them a fair shake. This one has a rather typical crisp, malty lager smell - not promising at all, but not repulsive either. It pours a clear, wan straw yellow with a white head that dissipates rather quickly. Flavor is rather wan, a little malty but that is it. At least it tastes like beer. Texture has about average fizziness but is a tad watery. Well, give the folks in Guatemala a chance, and they’ll come up with something better.

Bottle. Sweet Bes, that’s a pale pale lager -- a clear yellow-white. It looks like slightly tarnished club soda. Head is white and puffy. Despite being in a brown bottle, there is some major Pepe Le Pew action going on. It tastes pale and fizzy -- there’s no THERE there. Let us pray for the poor people of Guatemala, that they have a beer that sucks even by LUL standards.

Bottle of Famosa from the Whip-In. Another yellow pour with another small white head. Aroma isn’t much if anything at all. Frankly, I’ll take that. Taste is metallic, corny, and soapy. And grains.

Date: 12/31/2010 Source:Other Famosa 12 oz bottle. Grainy aroma, with light skunk that dissipated quickly. Light spicy hop notes. Clear very light straw. Sweet grainy flavor with corn or rice adjunct quality. Light to medium body and mouth feel. Finish is clean and moderately sweet.