Beer review: Corona Extra (4.6% Mexico: Grupo Modelo)

The Corona Extra is a lager, more specifically a Pale Lager. It's brewed by Grupo Modelo, a large Mexican brewery founded in 1922. The company has 63% of the Mexican beer market and exports beer to most of the countries in the world. In 2013 the brewery merged with Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest beer producer in the world with a total of 25% global market share. Talk about bulk quality...nevertheless, let's give it a go!

Taste: The Corona Extra is a light-bodied beer with a watery body and faint aromas of corn, malt and citrus. The beer finishes with a really faint citric hoppiness.

Overall, The Corona Extra is a beer connoisseur's nightmare. Taste-wise, it doesn't really offer anything. However, there's a time and a place for it: it belongs to the category of "when you want to pretend you're drinking beer but actually you're drinking lemonade water with a lime". Personally, I occasionally do enjoy these types of beers as a refreshment but when it comes to taste experiences, the Corona Extra doesn't deliver much.

45 Below average

Beer review: Sol (4.5% Mexico: Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Brewery)

Sol is a lager, more specifically a Pale Lager beer. It is one of the "victims" of the large beer corporations. It is brewed by Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Brewery which belongs to the Heineken corporation. Since the Finnish brewery Hartwall is also part of the corporation, it is in charge of importing Sol for the Finnish markets. When the large beer corporations are involved, one can expect no personality from the beer. Keeping this in mind, Sol is a beer meant more for refreshment and inebriation than for tasting.

Taste: Thin, watery flavor with almost no recognizable maltiness. A faint taste of lemon of the beer should definitely be accompanied by fresh lemon or lime.

A really average beer which I would only recommend if you do not want to taste your drink too much. If you just want a refreshment Sol and a lime will serve you well enough.

35 Below average