Americans Taste Test Mexican Beer

[snooper2]

LOL

[immoderate]

1. No Dos Equis?

--imm

[unblock]

29. iirc, they don't even market dos equis in mexico.

or if they do, it's under a different brand name.

hope I'm remembering my alcohol marketing factoids properly....

[Glassunion]

64. They do.

I lived off of it on a several day trip down the peninsula.

[unblock]

66. i sit corrected.

i can't drink the stuff anyway, anything even prepared with alcohol gives me a migraine.

[Warpy]

77. It's nice to know I'm not the only one with that problem

I have tasted Mexican beers, a sip to make sure I don't have to get it second hand, and I like Tecate and Dos Equis. Corona is a little tasteless.

All of them stand up to mass marketed beers in the US, IMO, but I don't like mass market US beers much, either.

I wish they'd do a taste test on Asian beers. Tsingtao out of China is about the best. Suntory out of Japan isn't bad, at all. Some of the rest can be very, very weird.

[OnyxCollie]

2. Mexican beer is pretty bad.

Weak, watery, and tasteless.

[lame54]

3. Better than micro-brews...

Yuck

[OnyxCollie]

4. So you prefer macro-brews?

[lame54]

11. So far...

micro-breweries are popping up all over
come up with a funky name and a weird label and your in
don't worry if the beer is shit - it's all in the marketing

[OnyxCollie]

20. Actually, it's the macro-brews who are worried

because their beer tastes like shit, so they come up with gimmicks like Budweiser Black Crown and Labatts Barrel-Aged series.

I'm a beer snob; I've tried over 400 beers since I've started keeping track, and it's micro-brews like Founders, Bell's, and Sixpoint that make the best beers.

[lame54]

27. I went on that journey for years...

looking for the next great beer
it's not to be found in a micro-brew
they all start to taste the same - and what's with all the fucking hops?

[Bonx]

28. Micro-brews don't all taste the same

or even remotely close.
That's crazy. There's a zillion different styles.
You probably just like American adjunct lagers - ie cheap american bland beer.

[OnyxCollie]

40. Oh, lordy...

(Shakes my head)

[lame54]

43. keep shaking...

i went through many many many of those beers for years
i'm not like those on here who put down American Sniper without actually ever seeing it
I saw the micro-brew movie - I've seen it over and over
I give it a thumbs down

[Bonx]

56. Your post doesn't make any sense

what are 'those beers' ?

[lame54]

57. micro-brews...

what do you think we are talking about
it's not too hard to follow

[OnyxCollie]

58. Generalizing that all micro-brews are bad

doesn't lend much to your credibility.

[Bonx]

59. are from small batch breweries

and come in a million different styles.
Your post made no sense.

[alcibiades_mystery]

82. Being contrarian...likes Corona and is gonna show those "snobs" with their microbrews

Hey, why not get a slash in on American Sniper, because...related! Snobs!

Sad, identity-based lashing out, essentially. Filled to the brim with pathetic resentment.

[lame54]

91. that was rather rude...

after all we're talking about beer

[Throd]

106. No, you must be destroyed.

[House of Roberts]

101. I like Founders.

The Porter and Dirty Bastard ale.
North Coast Old Stock Ale 2014 is good for a really strong ale.

[OnyxCollie]

102. Dirty Bastard is good.

Never got around to trying the porter.

I've got a bottle of North Coast Old Stock Ale 2012 way in the back of my refrigerator.

[alfredo]

110. Their Porter, Centennial IPA, and their Breakfast Stout are very good.

Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald, Burning River Ale, and Dortmunder Gold, are my go to beers, Sierra Nevada Stout is excellent.

Bells Hopslam kicks ass. Two Hearted Ale is a nice DIPA.

Dortmunder Gold would be my one beer if I had to choose. Reminds me of the German Lagers of my youth.

[alfredo]

109. Craft Brewers won big against AB. Check it out!

"The bill would clarify that brewers of alcohol can't own alcohol distributorships.

Smaller breweries supported the proposal, saying they were worried that Anheuser-Busch would make it harder for competitors to get their products to market."

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/04/3726642/kentucky-senate-gives-final-passage.html#storylink=cpy

[cyberswede]

63. LOL

[Adrahil]

74. You, sir, are a follow of no taste.

You may drink your swill. I'll drink real beer.

[lame54]

92. I insult your beer so you insult me? - is that how it works?

[Adrahil]

93. Yes, sir, it is! Beer is surious bidness.....

I was kidding you.... calm down.

I don't really care what your preferred beverage is. Enjoy!

[lame54]

94. cheers...

[LWolf]

87. The only beer better than a micro-brew

is a home-brew. I hated beer until my first home-brew; that's because all I'd had were macro-brews. Micro-brews are a good second, when I can't get a home-brew, and sometimes, depending on the home-brewer, they're better.

Of course, I don't like them all. I don't really like IPAs of any sort.

[enlightenment]

12. Negra Modelo

is pretty good, actually. Very nice with a meal.

[OnyxCollie]

14. Modelo's the best of the bunch.

For what flavor it does have.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Negra Modelo is totally front loaded with flavor

Hell, in many circles it is honestly mistaken for an ale sandwich.

[OnyxCollie]

36. BeerAdvocate gives it a 76 out of 100.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/75/667/

I'd stay out of those circles...

[nomorenomore08]

15. Bohemia also. It's a Czech-style lager, hence the name. n/t

[KamaAina]

34. Negra Modelo es una cerveza muy buena

Me gusto mucho.

[OriginalGeek]

60. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Negra Modelo

several years ago I had Bell's Palsy and could only drink with a straw and Negra Modelo had those stubby little bottles so I could just stick a straw in and forget my troubles and not worry about losing the straw in the bottle.

And I love Tex-Mex food so I go to those restaurants a lot and they always seem to have NM so that's what I get.

Happiness is 2 for 1 happy hour all day Sunday at Azteca de Oro with pollo fundido and a couple-ish 22oz mugs of cold Negra Modelo.

My wife drives home.

[Adrahil]

75. Meh...

It's merely acceptable. It is the best of the Mexican imports, however.

[Major Nikon]

76. That's the only Mexican beer I can stand

[Xithras]

68. Most of the world says the same about American beer.

And there's a reason for that. American and Mexican pale lagers forked from their European counterparts because hops were less available and American barley was less suited for beer making. The southern German immigrants who founded the major breweries in both the United States and Mexico adapted to this by adding corn to raise the alcohol content, and rice to fill it out and make it more palatable. The result is that North American pale lagers tend to be more watery and less flavorful than European pale lagers...and European pale lagers are fairly mellow to begin with.

In Mexico, where the climate traditionally made hops and barley even harder to come by than they were in the United States, there was more dependence on these fillers when creating the beer.

In other words, both American and Mexican beers represent the best lager that brewers in the two nations could come up a century ago, because of the limitations imposed by their local weather and growing conditions. While modern international trade and improved farming practices make it possible to brew just about any kind of beer anywhere in the world today, most people in the two countries now consider their weak, pissy lagers to be "traditional" and don't want them changed. That's why Coors, Budweiser and the rest still taste so bad.

[GummyBearz]

88. I dont know...

My roomate hosted several German students that she met while she was in Germany for a couple weeks. All they wanted to drink was coors and budweiser. I told them we have a ton of good microbreweries here, with good beer. And a store with imports from all over the world. They wanted nothing to do with it... Coors and budweiser for 2 weeks strait and they couldn't have been happier

[sendero]

95. It must have been..

... the novelty, because it sure couldn't have been the beer

[B Calm]

86. I love Pacfico and XXX! Much better than American beers.

[azmom]

5. I don't get the LOL part

What is it that I'm missing?

[snooper2]

7. don't drink the water in Mexico

rule #1

[jmowreader]

78. Don't worry about that

A big part of making beer is boiling the living shit out of it for hours on end. If there's any wildlife in the water they make it from...it won't survive the process.

[Android3.14]

6. Not funny. Disgusting.

With racist undertones.

[azmom]

9. That's what I'm thinking. What the hell.

[hlthe2b]

16. Just stupid, IMO... Many Americans love Bud light, after all

[glowing]

18. Have you missed the entire series of other nationalities trying

Different foods and drinks from other countries? I'd say it's probably a good thing that those beers aren't a "foreign" concept to younger Americans. That Cinco De Mayo has become another excuse for drinking it up holiday (honestly, it will probably be a national holiday in another 10 yrs). And from this video, what exactly is racist? Did anyone say a single racial derrogatory remark? They probably have a video backwards of Mexican people trying out different American beers. I know I've watched the "snack food" differences between Americans and Autralians.

[BubbaFett]

21. What did you see that made you reflexively think "RACISM?"

[snooper2]

24. I would alert

[azmom]

32. Alert this..... Pendejo

[snooper2]

35. ROFLAMO "Want me to teach you some Spanish words man?"

[azmom]

39. Now that's funny. The beer one not so much.

[Android3.14]

49. From my time teaching in Laredo

The Spanish word "Pendejo" loosely translates to the English word, "stupid". More specifically, with the additional sexual connotation, it apparently means that the person insulted is so stupid that he, if a man, is unaware that his wife is sleeping around and that he is incapable of realizing he is not even the father of the children in his house or, if a woman, she is such a loose and stupid woman that she is unaware of who are the fathers of her children.

[MADem]

105. There's a tight translation to that word, also.

IIRC, it means "public hair" in some vernaculars.

http://www.spanish-only.com/2009/03/spanish-word-of-the-day-pendejo/

It is common used as an insult, but the meaning varies depending on location as well as context.

[jmowreader]

79. That is the funniest piece of film they ever made, but you have to see the whole scene

For some reason, the pendejo who made that clip left out the part where Cheech drank out of the jar of pee the second time.

[Android3.14]

37. Not during the day

There are too many paid sockpuppets and "other motivated" posters on the board during working hours.

I question whether the people, who say this is funny, are working for the National Beer Wholesalers Association, are closet racists and/or are incapable of recognizing bigotry.

[snooper2]

46. when you getting your upgrade, I'm on 4.1.2 and thought that was old

[Android3.14]

48. Whoooosh!

<Android looks up>

[snooper2]

51. did the scotch tape work for you?

[Warpy]

80. Sometimes, it's not about you

Check out their other taste tests sometime.

They're all pretty funny and will make your claim of racism (Mexican is NOT a race, by the way) look pretty silly.

[romanic]

83. I saw no racism

At all. :I

[In_The_Wind]

8. Cheers

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. Insufferable hipster assholes are more insufferable than the worst Mexican beer. nt

[Brother Buzz]

13. Word!

[hlthe2b]

17. Yeah... that is what I was thinking as well..

[Dreamer Tatum]

19. And Bohemia is good beer, period.

Said it before, will say it again: music, pizza, and beer are the three things that
bring out the assholes like nothing else in the world.

[robbob]

33. Did you just reference the Budweiser anti hipster beer commercial?

Cause that Budweiser shit is borderline undrinkable...

Give me some hipster beer any day, as long as I don't have to hang out with a bunch of hipsters...

[Paladin]

47. Bravo! Thread Winner!

I'll drink my next half-dozen lime-bedecked Tecates in your honor.

[Xipe Totec]

22. Did they really have to pick the raunchiest Mexican beers to choose from?

What happened to:

Carta Blanca
Dos Equis
Negra Modelo
Superior

[BubbaFett]

23. Pacifico will do in a pinch

to wash down some fine Cazadores.

[dhill926]

53. I like Pacifico…

I love Cazadores Reposado. And together…(rummaging in frig and liquor cabinet…) yum!

[azmom]

26. No saben lo que es bueno.

[unblock]

30. ask any alcohol manufacturer, tastes are *heavily* influenced by marketing

sometimes even *identical* products are marketed in different countries to different demographics.

to the point where the same product (with a different brand name) will be the mass-appeal favorite of the lower-class in one country and the top shelf delicacy of the upper crust in another.

the upper class in the first country will absolutely insist that the drink is horrible swill, then travel to the other country and pay top dollar for the same concoction under a different name and think they're getting a rare treat.

[HuckleB]

42. +1

[Erose999]

31. Bohemia, Negra Modelo, Dos Equis Amber are the good Mexican beers. The stuff they tested is like...

sex on a boat. Its fucking close to water.

Corona is the worst. No flavor at all. A Budweiser is... robust, by comparison. I can't say I'd drink oatmeal stout if I lived in a place with an equatorial climate like Mexico though. So there's that.


If you really want to explode some hipster heads, make them do a Pepsi challenge with Japanese beer and Budweiser (which is actually made from rice much like a Japanese beer).

[OnyxCollie]

44. If you're going to compare Budweiser

to something like Asahi Super Dry, the Budweiser's going to come out looking pretty good.

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Comparing Bud to Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale is a different matter.

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[yuiyoshida]

54. I love Japanese beer

especially Asahi. I would never touch Budweiser. I also like Tsingdao very much.

[OnyxCollie]

71. I ordered a Tsingtao at The Worst Chinese Restaurant Ever

and the young waiter, trying to score points, said, "This is the most popular beer in China."

(It's not. The most popular, i.e. highest selling, is Snow from C.R. Snow.)

He then tries to be clever, knowing there's some connection between cold glasses and beer that Americans like, so he pours the beer into a rocks glass filled with ice.

"I don't want ice in my beer."

He appears shocked, and takes glass of ice and beer and starts pouring the beer out into another glass.

"No, no. I don't want that. I don't want it to be diluted more than it is."

He brings another beer and later I can hear him getting yelled at.

That was the last time I went to The Worst Chinese Restaurant Ever.

[GoCubsGo]

50. Yep. I quite like Bohemia.

Negro Modelo and Dos Equis are just fine, as well. And, yep, I'll drink warm water before I'll waste the calories drinking a Corona. It says a lot about a beer that one has to use lime in order to make it drinkable. I really don't understand why it's so popular. It tastes like carbonated sulfur.

[robbob]

38. Everyone knows Corona is served with a slice of lime

On a hot summer day it works for me...

[Erose999]

45. Thats the thing I don't get about it. Its so flavorless that you have to add something to flavor it.

Granted, Bud did do the "Bud Light with Lime" but since apparently American beverage companies can't flavor a beverage without adding copious amounts of high fructose corn syrup, it tastes more like Hi-C Ecto Cooler than beer with citrus.

[HuckleB]

41. I get that it's just comedy, but why not blind the thing?

PS: Corona was always the cheapest of the Mexican beers until they put it in a fancy bottle.

[FSogol]

52. FYI: Mexico has a growing mirco-brewery trend starting up. n/t

[Throd]

55. Put in 5 pounds of hops, give it a jivey name, and charge $11.99 per six pack.

Otherwise American beer snobs won't give it the time of day.

[Bonx]

61. I'll save the Coors light for u

[Throd]

65. I'll have a Weihenstephaner instead.

But I will gladly have a Coors Light over some IPAs that I've tried.

[Bonx]

67. I don't understand the IPA outrage

My favorite type of beer by far, but easily avoided if you don't like them.

[OnyxCollie]

69. I did a side-by-side taste test with Weihenstephaner pilsner and PBR.

Upon first pour, they appeared the same, although the head on the PBR dissipated in about 20 seconds.

The taste of the PBR was wretched, but what was even worse was the smell.

[bullwinkle428]

72. Weihenstephaner Vitus is one of the best beers on the planet, period.

[Mosby]

97. Most IPAs are really hoppy

If you're interested, try Squatters Off Duty IPA.

It will make you a believer.

[kwassa]

62. damn straight. Love those hops.

[Initech]

70. Reminds me of a Demitri Martin bit...

Where he had a "genius and an idiot both listening to smooth jazz." After 5 seconds of listening, they both had the same reaction!

[PersonNumber503602]

73. I don't drink, but I always feel like I'm missing out on something when people discuss beer

It seems like an interesting thing, but my family doesn't have the best track record with moderation. I'm pretty sure I could control myself, but I'd rather not risk it. Which sucks, because there is an appeal to it. Particularly with people who brew their own stuff.

[Art_from_Ark]

89. Personally, I don't think you're missing much

I think all this beer "brew-haha" is just like arguing whether Coke or Pepsi is better, or whether Sapporo ramen tastes better than Maruchan.

[OnyxCollie]

90. There's more to beer than fizzy yellow stuff.

From stouts to saisons, porters to pilsners, and everything in between, there are many different styles to try.

Ever hear of a gueuze? A dunkel? A rauchbier?

Ever have a beer brewed with:

oysters
bacon
pumpkin
raspberries
blueberries
loganberries
honey
cherries
parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
vanilla
coffee
jalapenos, haberneros, chipotles, serranos
walnuts
ginger
hibiscus
chocolate
green tea
lemon verbena
pink peppercorns

Ever have a beer aged on oak or cedar?

Ever have a beer with cascade hops? mosaic hops? citra hops? amarillo hops?

Ever have a beer from Sri Lanka? Vietnam? India? Turkey?

I love to explore new styles and check out seasonal releases from my favorite breweries.

[robbob]

99. Hear hear!

If I see a beer on the shelf that I haven't tried before, or if I am travelling across the country and the bar I'm in has a local micro-brew that I've never heard of before, THAT is the one I will try. And if they have 2-3 different kinds on tap then I will probably try each one. I could never understand brand loyalty when it comes to beer. From hot summer days on the dock to relaxing around the fire after a days skiing there are hundreds of different situations that each call for a different taste experience.

I'm a proud member of the "Dead Authors Club" at Bukowski's in Boston. To get your own embossed 1.5 liter mug (my dead author was Mordecai Richler) you had to check off 99 different types of beer you had tried at the pub in the space of a year. As the bar was a 10 minute walk to Fenway it was dead easy to go through those 99 bottles of beer in a year, and they ranged from the divine to the absurd (smoked beer that tasted like sucking on a slim jim?).

sometimes I miss those good old Boston days....

[OnyxCollie]

100. Absurd? Nonsense!

I was thinking about getting a rauchbier if I didn't find anything at the bottle shop yesterday. (It was a Stone brewery tap takeover; I had a green tea IPA.)

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IIRC, the first one tasted like a barbecue, and the second one tasted liked smoked ham.

I took home Troegs Nugget Nectar, an imperial amber ale, and Boulevard Tank 7, a saison, instead.

[Bonx]

96. Same thing with liquors and wines

Mostly it's grimacing at the first couple drinks, and then training your palate to like what everyone says is good.
No real reason to go there in the first place.
And I'm a beer drinker.

[burrowowl]

81. XXX's has gone

and for Xmas Noche Buena. Sad they were good beers. Negro Modela is the better of Mexican beers which have become Americanized in taste.

[eridani]

84. The lab tests came back. "We're very sorry to inform you--

--that your horse is diabetic."

[jmowreader]

104. You heard about the Mechanical Doctor vending machine?

You put a urine sample in the machine, insert $10 and it prints out a complete diagnosis and treatment plan.

The guy who invented it asked his friend to try it. He did, and the machine printed out:

You have tennis elbow. Apply cold packs for two hours a day."

Duly impressed, he went home and got a jar. He had his wife pee in it, his son, his daughter and his dog, then masturbated in it before returning to the machine...which printed out:

Your wife is pregnant with another man's baby. Get a lawyer.
Your daughter is on crack. Put her in rehab.
Your son has VD. Take him to the doctor.
Your dog has fleas. Wash him in flea shampoo.
And if you don't quit jerking off, your tennis elbow will never get better.

[a la izquierda]

85. Bohemia Oscura is good.

And there are local breweries all over Mexico. But by all means, keep drinking swill and thinking Cinco de Mayo is Independence Day (not directed at the OP).

[sendero]

98. There is a nice mix....

.. of judges here, some of which could spot a decent beer (Modelo) and some of which wouldn't know the difference between Bud Light and beer (those who chose Corona).

[ProdigalJunkMail]

103. negra modelo...

my fav of the mexican variety. i did drink a lot of Sol ages ago...

sP

[Omaha Steve]

107. Never had a Corona that tasted good

Skunky.

[Vattel]

108. If you are thirsty for a lager go with Pacifico.

Corona is swill, of course (notice that I added the "of course" to express my snobbish superiority).