Noche Buena

Bottle, 5.9%. Metallic aroma. Clear brown colour, quite stable head. Weak bready aroma, not unpleasant. Low bitterness, not much flavour. Quite boring, a bit like cheap lager with a bit of colour.

Like a big brother to Dos Equis. Still, you’d like to see it be a little better than it really is.

(1/29/06, 12oz bottle, vintage 2005) Crystal clear copper body with medium beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, cereal, some caramel, light cherry, faint metallic. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, cereal, some cherry/peach, metallic. Light-medium body, light acidity, fairly drinkable. Same rating.

(12/5/04) Crystal clear copper body with beige head. Aroma is mild, medium sweet, caramel, some spice, light metallic. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some peach, earthy, light metallic. Clean, light-medium body. (4/3/5/3/10)

Bottle. Nice dark amber colour with a big fuzzy though rather short lasting head. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel and some hops. Smooth flavour of sweet malts, good hoppy bitterness, and hints of nuts. A nice long bit sweet dry aftertaste. This Cerveza Especial sure is special and in my opinion the very best mass produced beer in Mexico. The flower on the label is a "poinsettia". It turns red around winter time.

(Bottle) Pours a dark amber body with a spare white head. Aroma of caramel, metallic, and alcohol. Flavor of caramel malt with a funky metallic aftertaste.

Pouring from a 2006 bottle, this has a deeb amber body and a white halo in lieu of a head. The aroma is very caramelly with a smattering of candy corn. The two blend in the flavor into something that’s just a bit too sweet for my tastes. The finish is thick and candy sweet.

<font size=-4>Thanks to my The LoSBD colleague <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=28565>El Borracho for passing this along.<font size=-1>

Actually a decent vienna. I bit dark for the style in a deep amber brown color with a thick tan head. Smooth feel with both a munich malt sweetness and a dry hoppy finish.

Reddish dark maber with a quickly dissipating light moka head. Light caramel aroma. In mouth, a light nutty caramel malt with, lightly oily mouthfeel, rather thin and short in mouth. A summer vienna for the beach. Gracias Raul.