Tecate

Brewed by FEMSA - Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Monterrey/Veracruz-Llave, Mexico

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

average frothy white head. good lacing. mostly diminishing. thin clear sparkling yellow body. aroma: light bread, heavy hops, light yeast, dough and honey. if and ff: light sweet and bitter. average duration. palate: light body, watery texture, lively carbonation and metallic finish.leves toques de mel, aguada, refrescante 3,5s

12 oz. bottle at a Mexican restaurant in LAX. Pale gold, big frothy white head that fizzes down quickly, and a lot of visible carbonation. Grainy, corny aroma with some maltiness. The flavor doesn’t add much to that- just sweet and grainy. The high carbonation makes for a bubbly, foamy mouthfeel, perhaps to distract from how watery the beer is. Points for not being skunky, though. Still, I’m not surprised so many people want to shove lime in these or put salt on the rim.

On tap at a wedding. Wow, this is awful. Fizzy clear yellow color with a quickly fading white head. Aroma is rice, corn, and sweet pale malt. Flavor is more of the same, really grainy, without much to it. Palate is pretty watery with high carbonation. Did a side-by-side with Budweiser, and they are almost exactly the same beer.

Serving: 24 oz. can. Gotta love the tallboy! Appearance: Pale gold with an effervescent white head. The head is gone pretty quickly with no lacing left behind. Aroma: Light grain and corn notes. Not much else. Flavor: Grainy with a touch of alcohol and some sweet adjunct notes. While this isn’t necessarily a good thing, it certainly could be worse. Palate: Medium-high carbonation with a medium-light mouthfeel and a medium short, slightly sweet finish. Overall: It actually isn’t a bad pairing with spicy Mexican food but it really isn’t anything you want to drink on a consistent basis.

Mexican Nite Cerveza Numero Dos! 12 oz bottle. I often hear people talk of this beer and how superior it is to most other Mexican beers. Let’s see how it holds up. Aroma is of an old gym locker, just like the Corona. Another whiff gives off a strong presence of stale cheap adjunct grains, some alcohol. Pale gold hue, with no head, bad lacing. It looks almost identical to the Corona. 1st taste impression: is this Corona bottled in a Tecate bottle? It tastes the same: slightly sweet, watery. A little less carbonation than the Corona, but otherwise pretty much the same beer.

UPDATED: OCT 13, 2009 My current favorite Mexican beer, Served best ice cold in the can, rim coated with lime, then dipped in salt.

A beer that almost attemtps to lack flavor. The light complexity and barely noticeable taste made me think that I was drinking mineral water splashed with yellow six food coloring.

Bottle. Pours a copper body with a white head. Dank malts, nutty, light grain, some dried fruit or corn like. Sweet and mildly bitter. Better than the light for sure.