Mexican Beer Tasting

The choices

The tasters from right to left:

Luis, Ricardo, Freddie, John, Sabine

(I'm holding the score sheet)

Recently five us (2 Mexicans and 3 non) participated in a "blind" taste test of seven Mexican beers. These were Corona, Victoria, Leon, Sol Brava, Pacifico, Montejo, and Indio.

We covered each of the bottles so that they more or less anonymous. We tasted each beer and rated it on a scale of 1 to 5. 1= awful, 5= fantastic.

After the tasting we tallied the results and came up with an overall winner.

I know you connoisseurs out there would have much to say about our unscientific methods. For example, for full appreciation of the flavour we should have tasted the beer at room temperature (we voted that this would be a waste of good beer).

You could also claim that since no spitting out of beer was involved, our judgement would have been slightly impaired by the time we came to beer #6 or 7.

Here, along with each beer's total score, are a few comments provided by the tasters.

Pacifico Score 12 Comments: Bitter, boring after taste

Indio 12 Nice bronze colour, ok taste

Victoria 14 Very little after taste, soft

Sol Brava 14 Sweet, unique, dry

Montejo 15 A bit fruity

Corona 16 Clear, light, nice after taste

Leon 18 Nutty, heavy

There you have it! Leon was the winner.

It should be said that none of the tasters gave any of the beers a score of 5.

Note: Our tasting did not by any means include all the Mexican beers available.

Notably missing were Dos XX, Modelo and Modelo Negro, and Barrilito.