On this past Saturday, May 5, I decided to venture out of my comfort zone and do something crazy. In the spirit of the day, I asked the bartender for a can of a Tecate, a beer brewed in Mexico at Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery. This brewery is a subsidiary of Heineken International.
To properly evaluate the beer, I asked for a glass. The beer poured a pale straw yellow color with almost no head (it appears darker in the photo due to the lighting in the bar). Even in a wide-rimmed glass, the aroma was nearly impossible to detect. The predominant taste was very clean – the best descriptor for what I was tasting is…water. The finish presented mild carbonation that played on the tongue for a few seconds. As I kept drinking, I was amazed at how much this beer resembles water. Very smooth, no body at all. Stretching my imagination, I picked up some hints of milled corn.
This is certainly not a poorly crafted beer; it is a very clean lager. It just was not interesting to me, at all. I will return to my craft beers and local brews, favoring their enticing aromas and varying flavors.
