Miller now makes a brand, called Chill, that is basically that – beer with lime & salt. I see posters for it in most of the Mexican restaurants I go to.
I don’t want to sound like a beer snob (i’ll drink almost anything you put in front of me, from a PBR to a Chimay) and I think most of the previous post have hinted around at it, but saying you like (or don’t like) Mexican beer is similar to saying you like California wine. There are so many varieties and styles of beer produced in Mexico that the question is too broad.
If Mexican brewed beer were the only options available, I’d prefer Negra Modello or XX Amber with a mexican meal. Sitting on a hot sunny beach or just finishing up an afternoon of yardwork, I’d reach for a Corona or other light lager.
Is that what that’s supposed to be? I thought it was bottled urine from a sick walrus. 
Miller Chill should be worked into that joke about fat women and mopeds.
I actually didn’t mind it. . .I mean, I’d use it in a situation like sitting on the beach, or mindlessly having with some chips during a football game. It would replace having a Budweiser, not having a Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre, dig?
I don’t know if I’d want to be drinking it in the corner bar, and certainly not to accompany a good steak, but whatever they used for lime flavor (prolly very little actual lime juice) does seem to give it a little more acidity (like some pale ales have), which a lot of cheaper beers tend to lack.
By virtue of having worked for 3 1/2 years in Bavaria, I consider Negra Modello and XX Amber “light beers.”
Negra Modelo
Dos Equis Amber
Dos Equis Special
water
Corona
Bohemia
Modelo Especial
Sol
Corona Light
Tecate
Tecate Light
…in that order. 
Oh, sure! But Canadian beer sucks!
[riot breaks out]
Just like any beer that can’t be eaten with a fork? 
I keep a case of Tecate in my fridge for my “slumming” beer. I use it to channel the soul of Jim Morrison.
But I prefer Bohemia or Negra Modelo.
Dos Equis is swill little better than Corona. And while we’re on the tangent of Miller Chill, I’ll just say that I am certain is that it’s just crappy ass Miller with someone’s salty, tangy nuts dunked into it. Disgusting.
Mexican checking in.
I pretty much agree with OneCentStamp’s list, albeit with some changes:
León
Negra Modelo
Indio
Pacifico
Dos Equis Ambar
Dos Equis Special
Bohemia
Sol
Modelo Especial
water
dying of thirst
Tecate
Corona
Tecate Light
Corona Light
But there are several foreign brands (especially European, never American) which I’d drink, given the choice, before any of them. And there are microbreweries whose products I’d buy as well, if they are available, before I drank any of the mexican brands I’ve mentioned above.
I’d tend to agree with you…which places Corona, Bud, etc. in the category of ‘colored water with alcohol’. However, I don’t know of any Mexican beers that are on the order of an Stout or even a Brown ale.
Seeing your location, Schlafly makes an Oatmeal stout that I like and the Trailhead in St. Charles has a pretty good brown.
Hmm…I’ve never tried León. I wonder if I can get it here. I imagine I can; if I can get beers from Belgium and Ireland at my local grocery store, and I’m less than 200 miles from Mexico, I should be able to get any Mexican beer I want. 
Diggit, is there a microbrewery scene/culture in Mexico like there is in the USA?
Every beer has its place. One of the best beers I every had was after a day of diving in Mexico. We still have a long boat ride back to town and were hot and salty. The divemaster unexpectedly cracked open a cooler of Corona (or similar) and those pale, watery beers suddenly made perfect sense.
Anything in the Dos Equis line if fine for regular drinking.
My Pocket Guide to Beer by Micheal Jackson (6th edition) (What, you don’t keep a copy with you?) rates most for the beers mentioned as one to two stars. Negro Modelo gets 3 stars.
The León is a “dark light beer”, made in Yucatán. They have pretty good beer there, actually. Like ExTank says, it’s very light, compared to a stout, but I like the taste.
And answering your question, there aren’t that many microbreweries around (at least not here in Mexico City). There’s one “brand” which is actually very good (I might even remember its name one of these days :smack: But I know it when I see it 
). It even has a dark beer that deserves its name, but its sales are spotty at best.
There’s also a restaurant chain which has an excellent dark beer but I’ve never been able to find their product… outside of the restaurant, of course.
Just remembered the name of the brand of microbrewed beer. It’s Casta
Love Mexican beer.
#1 Carta Blanca
#2 Pacifico
Corona
The two best Mexican beers I’ve had are not imported here. It’s really odd. I’m thinking of Victoria and Indio, the latter mentioned above already.
I’m probably alone in preferring Modelo Especial to Negra Modelo. And Sol & Bohemia I like more than all the other common ones.
Mexican beer is my first choice. I’ll usually go with any one of the varieties of Dos Equis if I stop for a six pack (though ironically I find German beer to be better to marinate fajitas in).
The only American beer I’ll touch is Yuenling (which is decent though not deserving of the adoration) and Rolling Rock (if I’m feeling nostalgic - that’s my step-father’s preferred beer). I’ll take a Corona if there’s nothing else available other than the disgusting Bud/Miller/other-colored-water-swill.
(My first college boyfriend was in a frat, and they often only had Milwaukee’s Best at their parties. shudders Sobriety was the only real choice in that situation.)
You’ve all whet my appetite for some more Mexican experimentation. I’m a fan of Negra Modelo and Dos Equis, but up here in Michigan we don’t even see them too often.