Pilsener (Ecuador)

When I travelled in Ecuador, it is the beer that you find everywhere. It is sadly the same story that you find in South America and others countries: globalisation. This beer was bought by a big group and they spend millions of dolars in advertising with stupid women or pastic girls to sell finally a bad product. The people there like in Peru have weak salaries and they prefer to drink these kind of standard and tricatel euro lagers. In the 99% of the places you just find these macrobreweries and you don’t have the choice. This one is typical, boring and one standard lager, some malt, watery, few hop, metalic, yellow and gold color, thin and white foam, ok with a ceviche con aji.

Bottle shared at the Chris & Ruth pre GBBF shindig tasting 2016 - London. Cheers! Pours clear yellow with a white cream heading. The noseh olds paper and dry, crispy cereal. Light to medium sweet flavour with some white bread, simple white sugar, cereal. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with more sugary white bread, minimal bitterness. So so, even by cheap pale lager standards.

Bottle shared at the pre GBBF chriso’s tasting day 2 07/08/2016. Thanks to Colin for this one. A very pale yellow coloured pour with a lasting thin white head. Aroma is light cereal, green apple, adjunct. Flavour is composed of stale grains, oxidised, honey, grassy. Palate is very light, mineral, moderate carbonation, cardboard. Bad.

Bottle shared at Chriso’s grand pre GBBF tasting 2016, thanks to Theydon Bois for supplying this. Pours clear gold with a thin white head, aroma of malt, grass and bread, taste starts with a little grass and then moves into thin, malty bread. Another pale lager. Hurrah!

August 2016 - Bottle share at Chriso’s Sunday Shindig. Thanks! Simply called ’Pilsener’, brewed at CNE, Ecuador. Pale yellow, clear, lightly sparkling, foamy off-white head. Aroma is corny, buttery. Body is light, tingly carbonation, smooth. Taste is thin malt, buttered corn, watery, touch of mint. Pretty much the same basic pale lager you can find in any country in the world. Drinkable enough. (2.2)

Chris and Ruth’s Shindig 2016, Sunday. Clear pale golden beer with almost no head. Fruity bready aroma, citrus, grapes, some paper. Same flavor, really thin.

Bottle at Chris and Ruth’s pre-GBBF Shindig, 2016 (Sunday sesh.). Gold pour with a white head. Caramel, corn and sweet fruit aroma. Sweet fruit and corn in the flavour. Drinkable.

Gibt es an jeder Ecke in Ecuador. Aus der Flasche. Gold-gelbe Farbe. Malzsüsses Aroma, wenig Geschmack, etwas herber und süßlicher als das zweite ecuadorianische Hauptbier Club. Sprudig, besser kühl trinken!

Pre-gbbf-shinding. Klare goldene Farbe, geringe weiße schaumkrone. Geruch getreidig malzig, leicht hopfig. Geschmack pappig, süß malzig, Getreide, schlecht.

pale yellow. small head. well, smells like corn. taste is the same. I wasn’t expecting much from my first ecquiador tick. corn, rice, light euro hop bitterness.