Reading the responses in this thread makes me wonder what are your opinions on Mexican beer.
Me? I love it.
Tecate, Pacifico, Dos Equis, Carta Blanca are the ones I drink most often. Not a huge fan of Negro Modelo, but it is a nice change of pace. Sol and Corona are runners up.
Mexico makes some wonderful beers. Corona isn’t one of them.
I’m not a big fan of Corona. Dos Equis is great though…
When I was in Puerto Vallarta, Sol seemed to be the beer of choice in most restaurants I went to, and I really enjoyed it. It’s perfect for a hot day on the beach.
If you like Corona, you might like Chihuahua – to me it tastes the same as Corona and is about half the price. Trader Joe’s used to carry it; I don’t know if they still do. Back when I lived in SoCal, I used to get it at TJ’s quite often, as it was usually the cheapest beer they had.
Dos Equis is also good – especially the dark version. The regular version in the green bottles seems to get a bit skunky.
I regularly stock the fridge with Modelo Especial and Dos Equis. Good beers to have with dinner. Any of the beers packaged in clear glass are either spoiled, or about to be, or crap to begin with. Carta Blanca isn’t bad at all, and I’ve been known to toss a 6-pack of Tecate into the cooler when we go off-roading.
There is a time and place for Mexican beers. Lying on the beach, with a hot sun beating down and with nowhere to go and nothing to do is one. The other is if you are allergic to good beers.
Negro Modelo is pretty much the only one I can stand.
I actually like Negro Modelo. That black shit it leaves on the bottom of your glass makes me feel like I just ate a meal rather than drank a beer.
I can’t say that I dislike Mexican beers, but I’ve had Corona and Tecate, and thought both sucked. Only other one I’ve had is Negro Modelo, which was quite good, IIRC.
Joe
I like Dos Equis Amber and Negro Modelo. And every once in a blue moon I’ll have a Corona.
I like both Modelo’s. Being Texas lots of people drink Mexican beer. It seems like Corona or Dos Equis is the most popular.
I don’t drink any other Mexican beer regularly. It happens that there is a good brewery near by and they make several inexpensive varieties I like.
Negro Modelo (and Especial to a less extent) and Bohemia are both quite acceptable to me. Corona… um, no.
Bohemia is my default beer at a Mexican restaurant. Goes well with everything. To my tatsebuds, it is the closest to what the Germans were making when they relocated to Mexico. I just wish they would repackage it a bit. The foil gets in the way unless you strip it down an inch or so. Annoying, but it gives me something to do until my food comes (other than gorge on chips and salsa).
I was just coming in to say the opposite… I don’t like Mexican beers as a rule, but Negro Modelo seems to be the exception.
Then again, I prefer it because it actually tastes like something (whereas Corona et al simply taste too watery to me).
My favorite is probably Pacifico followed closely by Carta Blanca & Tecate.
Corona fails to even make the list.
Corona should wear the crown as the worst beer on earth. Corona makes Coors Light look like a trappist ale in comparison. My FIL decided at some point that his favorite beer in the world is Pacifico, which isn’t bad but it’s not worth the sticker price IMHO.
I don’t mind the Negro Modelo or Carta Blanca from time to time but Mexican beer in general is shite.
I used to love Chihuahua, but haven’t seen it in years…and I don’t know if I would still like it. I don’t remember it tasting like Corona though.
I like some Mexican beers, (negra Modelo, Pacifico) and hate some (Tecate, Corona). Modelo Especial I don’t really care for either, but will drink it or Dos Equis if there is nothing else acceptable availabe (happens a lot at parties).
My opinion of Corona in a nutshell. They have a great advertising campaign that sucks in casual beer drinkers, but like most things that are over-hyped, the product is poor.
I think that most of these mexican beers listed (Corona, Tecate, Pacifico, Negra) have very little on Bud, Coors, Miller and Rolling Rock. And, you usually pay way more for them.
They’re just big mass produced beers, but they somehow got a reputation as being better than their American counterparts. I don’t buy it.
Now, I think it’s Negra that is a bit better than the rest, just like Sam Adams is better than Bud, and something like Heineken shows you can have a decent mass produced beer.
But, nothing I’ve named in this thread (including Heineken) gets near in quality to any of a hundred American Micros that I’ve had.
Once a month I’ll pick up a six pack of Bohemia at the corner grocery. It may have more to do with habit. Way back in the day that was the brand Dad always ordered at the restaurant in Reynosa.
Two things, first my stepdad used to work for Barton Brands here in Chicago oh so many years ago (Barton is the importer for Corona) and when they picked up Corona they literally couldn’t give it away. Nobody wanted to push skunky cheap tasting Mexican beer. That is until some genius came up with the “put a lime wedge in it” idea. An apocryphal story it may be, but they actually could not sell Corona in the US until they had the idea to make it taste like something else! The stories in alcohol distribution in this country are legion, but this one is a classic.
The second thing is that when I was in college we used to drink what was called “Ghetto Corona” which was just a bottle of Miller High Life with a lime wedge in it. I got to thinking one day and I came up with the Corona Challenge. Corona usually sells for $14 a half rack, Miller High Life for around $7. I’d take a bottle of each and pour it in identical shot glasses and challenge the Corona drinkers that if they could tell me which one was Corona I’d buy them a case, if I was wrong I’d buy you a case. It’s essentally a double for nothing deal with the price of the beer.
You honestly cannot tell Corona from High Life, they’re honestly the same beer. So for any Corona drinkers out there, just buy High Life and save yourself a few bucks and if you must, put a lime wedge in it.