Modelo Especial

Bottled. Pretty much water with some beer flavoring. Still marginally better than Corona.

12 oz bottle from Country Club Liquors; Nose is grainywith a little grassiness; gold with a medium white head; flavor is grainy with a peppery note, slight sweetness, and a slight bit of bitterness; finish is slightly sweet then turns slightly bitter. Not bad for a pale lager.

This is quite a decent macro lager and actually tastes more like a German pilsner than most such beers, particularly those from the US< Canada, or Mexico. It’s faintly darkish gold with a medium white head steadily shrinking to a foaym ring and a hint of very weak lace. The aroma is soft grain, with hints of lemon, pine, honey, and herbs, and the faintest hint of soap. It has a light German element to the otherwise pretty good macro New World lager quality. The taste, especially at first, is more noticeable German, with a clear German herbal/grass/pine hop dominance at first, with honey and a very faint hint of grain, a light bitterness just dominating the faint grain sweetness. This soon fades, though, and the overall character degrades slightly, becoming more muddled, bland, and with a faint minerally-soapy quality coming through, but still staying pretty good. It’s a lbit on the watery side, but not heavily so. Overall, it’s drinkable, with a stronger character & flavour, and certainly more hop presence and flavour than most US/Mexican/Canadian macro lagers and is quite good. It also has no real off-flavours aside from the very faint, brief soapiness mentioned.

I had quite a few of these beers while on vacation in Mexico. Dubbed the "working class beer" by my sister, it fit the bill. The color was clear gold, with a small, bubbly white head. It had a corny, grainy hop aroma; not much malt to speak of. The flavor was mostly bitter with a bit of sourness. A thin, dry beer with little carbonation and not much of a mouthfeel. Overall it was one that was easy to drink in the heat, but not much on character.

I was for 2 weeks on a holiday in Mexico. I taste several local beers. First of all I’ll give a general personal opinion. All the beers were served to cold. There was no, or almost no foam. If you ordered a beer, you always have to ask for a glass, which is also very cold. Always there was a lemon in the bottle. If you like it and put the lemon in your beer, than every beer would taste almost the same, because of the strong taste of a fresh lemon. The temperature in Mexico makes it understandably to serve cold beer. But you loose the real taste of the beer. A clear, very light yellow colored beer, with no head. I couldn’t smell an aroma. The taste was like a watery apple juice. A bad example of a lager

Bottle. Not impressive. Wish I didn’t have to write 75 words detailing how this beer is boring. Not for me

I’ve had this one on tap, out of the bottle and out of a can (12 oz and a 24 oz can). This is what most of the local Mexican’s drink, so if/when I go over to their house for a get together this is usually whats served. This was the case this past weekend, so I figured what the hell. It’s free so why not rate. The beer is a very nice color of gold with a medium white head. Initial aroma was skunk and corn. After a few minutes, it was still skunk and corn. Flavor had some grainyness to it, some skunk (it was a clear glass bottle after all) with just a touch of sweetness to it. Decent enough Mexican swill, but nowhere near the best they have to offer.

yeah, well, I didn’t have an opener, and we were on the way back form the mets game. And you know what? bottled, I have no shame - twas not THAT bad.