Premium Cristal (Peru)

Brewed by Backus y Johnston (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Lima, Peru

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottled. Pale golden in color. Minor whithe bubbly head. The aroma is bulk lager like (But what the heck. I’m just outside Mancora at 10pm at a beach by the Pacific Ocean waiting for my lobster). Kinda watery.. but with a stng to it.

This beer was given to me by my friend Christian who is from Peru. This beer was very similar to a mass produced, American lager like Budweiser. This isn’t bad, in fact it would make a great summer session beer.

Bottle. Pours a golden pale body with a white whispy head. Grain and some light grass tones, corn and skunk y sweetness. Just bad.

12 oz bottle-Golden color w/o much head. Faint aroma of corn & grain. Light flavors of corn, grass, & bread dough. Smooth & easy to drink, not a whole lot to it but I’d call it unoffensive. A friends son brought this to a NYE Party & I wasn’t expecting much, but I figured I’d try it after the good beer ran out (and get a cheap rating). I was plesently surprised, it wasn’t anything special but it was a light, easy drinking, serviceable Cerveza, wasn’t the worst thing there by far.

Light yellow coloured and clear. Has a white head, mostly lasting. Light malty aroma, perhaps a yeasty note too. Moderate sweet flavor, light bitter finish. Creamy, watery texture. Soft carbonation.

Wow, the incompetence of pale lagers. I picked this brew up because I only had a few minutes left on the clock to pick up something, so I went to a local gas station. I have had everything there except for this crap, so I figured why the hell not. It poured a boring uneventful piss yellow color with a head that quickly vanished. It tasted like Heineken, so in other words pretty bad. Boring watery palate. Overall I won’t ever be drinking this again. Avoid if all possible!

A piss color beer with a decent fast disappearing head. The aroma wasn’t as skunky as others nor was the taste. It’s funny because when I finished the glass it didn’t look like anything had been in there. At least I got Peru for my countries.

Bottle that we found at some street market in Genoa, along with the Ecuadorian Club (yaay)
Poured a quite pale golden/yellow body with a medium sized thick white head that took its time to go away. Oily beans in the nose, some grain too. Light taste, cardboard and a very light hop background. Blah. Another day another country.

11/10 0.33 l bottle from a street market in Genova. It poured pale yellow body with medium sized head. Malty aroma of some cheap boring pale lager... Flavor is slightly eggy, dusty, predominately malty, but not something that couldn’t be drinked. Some honey and flowery finish. A boring beer, but I won’t complain too much over my first Peruan rate.

This is another in a crazy long line of nasty pale lagers from south/central america. Corn, skunky malts and hops. yuck.