Quilmes Cristal

Brewed by Cerveceria Malteria Quilmes SAICAY (InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Buenos Aires, Argentina

My number 500! Well, I suppose you are asking yourself who would want to waste their number 500 on a beer rated barely a "5" out of 100. Having the grand idea to slip off to Belgium and tag around the country side, boozing with monks in monestary’s giving my palate the over-do work-out it deserved, I was all but waiting. Well, change of plans and more importantly, change in my train of thought. I’ve already had phenomenal brews and rated them accordingly. I asked myself what I was missing......my answer..."the experience" of any beer. So, I find myself teetering on number 499, at a dance bar in Rosario, Argentina, and the menu consisting of Quilmes and Ferment/Cola; the latter being well too sweet for my taste. So, in grand ol’ fashion, I pop the top of a damn aluminum can and divulge into mediocre bliss, enhanced by the intoxicating rhythm of strange dance partners, non-English speakers, and a few fabulous mates. With a 1x1x1 combination of beer and water, I partied on a sub-par major brewery beer to make ol Busch proud, and became aquainted with Quilmes well past 9am in the morning. So, kudos to the experience a sub-par brew can produce. big yerself up Boludo! My overall impression; 19!

Clear goldblond coloured beer with small white head and medium carbonation. A sweet hoppy aroma. Full sparkling palate. Finish is smooth, sweet and herby.

I know that this beer is synonymous with Argentina. It’s plastered everywhere in that country and the stuff runs like water in every location imaginable. Little babies can be seen sucking on a bottle of this stuff. OK, not really but it’s that prevalent. Having had the chance to enjoy this beer many years ago, I found that it hasn’t changed one bit. Bought this as a single bottle at Cost Plus for under a buck, so I figured what the hell.

The beer pours out a standard yellowish/straw color with a huge 3" soapy head. Aroma is skunk, light corn-like malts and just a hint of wet grass. Mouthfeel is watery, but standard for a pale lager. Flavor has a light maltiness that is easy drinking. No hops, nothing fancy...just a regular old lawnmower beer that you can find in any country, anywhere on Earth. Wether it’s called Budweiser, Red Stripe, Corona, San Miguel, MGD, Tuborg or Fischer...it’s all the same.

Clear look, yellow straw color, and has a samll to no white head. The smell is corn, grain, little off, malts, and floral. The taste is corn, slight sweetness, malts, grains, and florals.

My first try at a South American brew. Very pale, almost like a lite beer. forms a large white head. Has a smooth taste and goes down easy. Could have been better, but would try it again.

~Pours a clear watered down gold color with rocky white head. The color isnt good, luckily the nice looking head redeems it and brings it back to a 3. ~Damn I really have to snort this stuff to get any scent from it. Some sour hay and malts? ~Flavor of very watered down malts. This is the most tasteless beer I had. I cant complain about it because it really doesn’t have hardly any taste. ~Thin watered down feel. Good when you are dying of thirst in the desert I guess. ~This beer really blows my mind. Perhaps I should have had this beer first. All I have had is other lagers tonight. This beer is really weak. It impresses me that there is any alcohol in this. I’m surprised this doesn’t outsell Corona.

Attractive bottle colors. Pours translucent gold, thin white head that doesn’t retain well. Aromas of malt and corn. Simple. On the palate this bear is watery with an almost artificial malt sweetness, with more corn, and rather thin bodied. Easy drinking, almost no hops, but certainly would prefer this over any BMC offering at the office party with limited selections.

Blonde color with surprisingly pleasant malted grain aroma and crisp clean malted grain flavor profile. Earthy and refreshing. One of the better versions of this style.