Modelo Especial

Brewed by Grupo Modelo (Corona)
Style: Pale Lager
México DF, Mexico

Our waiter recommended it when we went out for Mexican last week. It went along great with my meal, but I would never drink it otherwise and never without the lime they added. The flavor wasn’t horrible, it was just fruity and sweet - no hoppiness to it at all.

12oz Bottle: My first bottle on my Mexican beer quest on my cruise last week, and a lesson learned: beer gets cheaper the further you get away from the main drag in Cozumel. Bought this from a lady in a pharmacy that didn’t speak english, only enough to say "2!". Never pay more than a dollar for Mexican beer. Anyways, I had it from the clear bottle and was shocked to find it hadn’t gone skunky. Until I tasted it and realized it would have required hops for that. That said I can see how it might be refreshing if I’d been stranded in the desert for a week with no sustenance or water.

Had this alongside a nice spicy Mexican meal today and it worked well in that context. Served with a lime, the fruitiness of the lime played a big part, showing up in the aroma and flavor. Palate was delicate with a sweetness of honey. Appearance was very dull, pale and headless.

Yellow, with a white head. Aroma is corn and grain. Flavor is mostly corn and maybe a little bit of hops.

24 oz can. Poures little head, pretty much none. Smells like corn and kinda funky when I first opened it. It is a unique beer. Nothing too impresive.

12oz bottle-A darker golden body with a very small ring for a head and an aroma of nothing. Taste of a liitle malt and hops along with some corn. Not a bad tasting mxican brew.

Can. 12 fl. oz. Golden yellow with white, thin, disappearing head. Very light grain aroma. Thin body with a slightly dry texture. Not much to the flavor. Just a fair amount of bitterness. Goes down easy without any overpowering skunkiness. I’ll take a cooler full of these to the beach anyday.

24 oz tall boy. Pasadena, CA. Snow in the local mountains following a stormy weekend - lots of muddy mountain biking - awesome. Sorry, that all excites me more than the beer. I mean hey, is anyone actually reading up on Modelo Especial ratings for real connoisseur insights??? Actually, this ain’t that bad for a "brown-baggin’ it" kind of evening at the local mini mart. Light fizzy yellow (trivia, author?: "Fizzy Yellow Beer is for Wussies"). Hay aroma with a slight manufactured fruity sweetness. cheap lager flavor. Ahhh, at $1.99 it’ll do.