Gallo

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

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

This bottle had the Famosa label rather than the Gallo label. The nose is at first somewhat something and then something worse; the body is a hazy straw color and on top is barely a white head - random, massive bubbles fight desperately to escape towards the top, or at least I would; the flavor is slightly acidic and somewhat bittersweet; it feels too thick for what it is; well, overall, I don’t care.

Bottle of Famosa .... Yellow golden pour thin white head ... aroma of corn, cereal and light grass.... tastes pretty awful light grassy hops, corn, cereal, sweet malt ... strange taste

330ml bottle labelled Famosa on the bottle pours a pale straw color with a small white head and no lacing. Aroma is cereal grains and faint hops. Taste is light malt sweetness and an undesirable bitterness from the hops. A substandard beer for this style, not recommended.

Bottle @ home. Guatemala tick. Famosa (aka Gallo) pours a light yellow, transparent appearance wit ha disappearing, white head. Corn, husky grains, light organic hops are noted in the nose. Very light bodied (corn/rice), a touch lemon fruity, bland light malty, a bit metallic flavor. Very light flavor with not much going on.

355mL from Total Wine in Orlando, FL. Pours a crystal clear SRM2 straw with a huge white head. Very nice retention. Suddy lace. Sugar and mild lager sting in the nose. Tase is metallic and cardboardy. Not very good though relatively inoffensive.

12. oz. bottle...purchased as Famosa. Pours a standard pale lager color with minimal head and huge bubbles. Aroma is offensively rotten vegetal notes. Taste has very sweet malts and a corn-flake adjunct taste. Overall sessionable and mild, but definitely worth passing on this one!

Despite of quality and taste, what makes a beer is also the athmophere it can produce. In such case Gallo beer is a great example of what a beer can do by itself... Great memories from Guate!!!

(Labeled as Famosa Lager). Pours clear piss-yellow color with a medium airy white head that diminishes extremely fast. Aroma of malt and adjuncts, especially rice. Not much more. Flavor is sweet-ish and watery. Very typical commercial lager. Not noble but not disgusting either. Light bodied but not as much as other swill. Fizzy carbonation. It holds its own against many typical chilean industrial pale lagers at half the price ($290 or US$0.50).

40 oz bottle poured a clear yellow with a small lingering white head. Aromas of corn, graiuniness and white bread. Palate wasa light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of bread, straw and light corn with a crisp dry watery finish.