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Tijuana Güera
Consorcio Cervecero De Baja California ( La Taberna TJ )
- From:
- Consorcio Cervecero De Baja California ( La Taberna TJ )
- Mexico
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 76
- Avg:
- 3.15 | pDev: 15.87%
- Reviews:
- 27
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 13, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 19, 2005
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 2
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Reviewed by LennyOvies from Mexico
2.83/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
L- Clear straw yellow body with a fluffy white head, fairly low retention. Medium visible carbonation activity.
S- Bready grain malts, peachy touch. A bit spicy.
T- Grain malts, bready. Slightly dry hop finish.
F- Light, watery.
O- Ok pilsner, refreshing, nothing great.
May 27, 2016S- Bready grain malts, peachy touch. A bit spicy.
T- Grain malts, bready. Slightly dry hop finish.
F- Light, watery.
O- Ok pilsner, refreshing, nothing great.
Reviewed by FLima from Brazil
2.78/5 rDev -11.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.78/5 rDev -11.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Bright and light golden color with a thin head with short retention.
Aroma starts similar to an Adjunct Lager, though I understand it uses 100% Barley malt. Hints of lemon, honey, bread malt sweetness and metallic.
Flavor with notes of grainy malt and herbal hops. Dry aftertase with a medium bitterness.
Light body with good carbonation.
Average Pale Lager, not much different than an Adjunct Lager, though it does not neglect hops.
Aug 17, 2015Aroma starts similar to an Adjunct Lager, though I understand it uses 100% Barley malt. Hints of lemon, honey, bread malt sweetness and metallic.
Flavor with notes of grainy malt and herbal hops. Dry aftertase with a medium bitterness.
Light body with good carbonation.
Average Pale Lager, not much different than an Adjunct Lager, though it does not neglect hops.
Rated by getkrunkhoe from California
1.87/5 rDev -40.6%
look: 1.75 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
1.87/5 rDev -40.6%
look: 1.75 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
not great but beats some of the other options (of the same category) available. Ok for "pool" / beach beer.
Jun 04, 2015Reviewed by Mike_Aguirre from Mexico
3.44/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 1 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.44/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 1 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
This is the ugliest beer I´ve ever seen, looks weird yellow, not beer like yellow. Smell is appropriate for the style but has a metallic note there. Taste is nice, it rescues how bad it looks.
May 26, 2015Reviewed by stoutman from Michigan
2.84/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.84/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Clean, light malt peachy smell aroma. Gold color with dusty notes and a decent white head that went quickly away. Starts with a light malt sweetness that is almost immediately balanced by hop. The finish is lightly bitter. Arguably a light pilsener. An okay effort that bests the mass-produced mexican crap.
Dec 24, 2013Reviewed by Halcyondays from California
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
12 oz. bottle,
A: Pours a deeper gold with a much fuller white head than the Light. Good retention, some lace.
S: Pils type malt, honey and lemon, light hops.
T: Fairly fruity for a pale lager. Notes of orange and honey, lemon hops. Light malt flavour.
M: Light-bodied, fizzy, prickly carbonation.
O: A solid pale lager, I was something with a little more hops and balance.
Oct 10, 2011A: Pours a deeper gold with a much fuller white head than the Light. Good retention, some lace.
S: Pils type malt, honey and lemon, light hops.
T: Fairly fruity for a pale lager. Notes of orange and honey, lemon hops. Light malt flavour.
M: Light-bodied, fizzy, prickly carbonation.
O: A solid pale lager, I was something with a little more hops and balance.
Reviewed by Converge from Canada (AB)
2.38/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.38/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
355ml bottle poured into a 16oz pint glass.
A - Pours with just under a finger of slightly off-white head. Translucent pale yellow in color.
S - Sweet malt and adjunct grain, with something weird that I can't quite identify in the background; but I think it might be beans.
T - Light malt and hops upfront with a really metallic finish. Not exactly a desirable flavor profile off the start. I don't particularly care for the flavor here, but it brings more character to the table than a lot of other lagers I've tried.
M - Surprisingly low carbonation with a medium body to it.
D - After a few other reviewers said they had conflicting ABV listings I decided to check my bottle, only to find that it doesn't state the ABV anywhere on it. The strong metallic aftertaste is also quite unenjoyable. Altogether, this doesn't make for a very good brew.
Aug 15, 2011A - Pours with just under a finger of slightly off-white head. Translucent pale yellow in color.
S - Sweet malt and adjunct grain, with something weird that I can't quite identify in the background; but I think it might be beans.
T - Light malt and hops upfront with a really metallic finish. Not exactly a desirable flavor profile off the start. I don't particularly care for the flavor here, but it brings more character to the table than a lot of other lagers I've tried.
M - Surprisingly low carbonation with a medium body to it.
D - After a few other reviewers said they had conflicting ABV listings I decided to check my bottle, only to find that it doesn't state the ABV anywhere on it. The strong metallic aftertaste is also quite unenjoyable. Altogether, this doesn't make for a very good brew.
Reviewed by brokensail from California
3.18/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.18/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Thanks to Jacob for another rare lager tick from what I can assume is some incarnation of a dollar store.
A: The pour is a clear straw color with a fizzy white head that dies away quickly.
S: Not a horribly offensive aroma, but not necessarily a good one, either. Pretty watery with some mild grain/malt notes to it and a bit of skunk. This is supposed to be a 100% malt beer, but I can't help but smell corn.
T: Pretty much the same story with the flavor. Watered down for the most part with a bit of grain/malt flavor. Some grassy hops, mild skunk, and an overall pretty bland flavor.
M: Certainly light bodied with a medium level of carbonation.
O: I was expecting worse, but this turned out to be okay. I won't say it was good, or that I'd want to drink it again, but it wasn't offensive.
Jul 16, 2011A: The pour is a clear straw color with a fizzy white head that dies away quickly.
S: Not a horribly offensive aroma, but not necessarily a good one, either. Pretty watery with some mild grain/malt notes to it and a bit of skunk. This is supposed to be a 100% malt beer, but I can't help but smell corn.
T: Pretty much the same story with the flavor. Watered down for the most part with a bit of grain/malt flavor. Some grassy hops, mild skunk, and an overall pretty bland flavor.
M: Certainly light bodied with a medium level of carbonation.
O: I was expecting worse, but this turned out to be okay. I won't say it was good, or that I'd want to drink it again, but it wasn't offensive.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.12/5 rDev -1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
355ml bottle, weirdly conflicting ABV listings - the back label adds a 3.5% count to the mix.
This beer pours a mildly hazy pale golden colour, with a damned skinny single finger of fizzy white head, which bails in an instant, leaving a few low streaks of lace in its stead. It smells of breakfast cereal grain - toasted corn and Shreddies, along with a bit of weedy, earthy hops. The taste is doughy, cornbread malt, kind of astringently metallic, and somewhat bitter dead flower essence hops. The carbonation is moderate, the body medium weight, a little edgy, but generally smooth. It finishes off-dry, the grainy sweetness getting a strong noogie from the flinty, mineral-esque bio-mass hops.
While clearly the best Mexican lager that I've ever come across, the label claim of being "Craft Beer" may be more indicative of size, rather than outright quality - the metallic off-flavours see to that.
Jun 29, 2011This beer pours a mildly hazy pale golden colour, with a damned skinny single finger of fizzy white head, which bails in an instant, leaving a few low streaks of lace in its stead. It smells of breakfast cereal grain - toasted corn and Shreddies, along with a bit of weedy, earthy hops. The taste is doughy, cornbread malt, kind of astringently metallic, and somewhat bitter dead flower essence hops. The carbonation is moderate, the body medium weight, a little edgy, but generally smooth. It finishes off-dry, the grainy sweetness getting a strong noogie from the flinty, mineral-esque bio-mass hops.
While clearly the best Mexican lager that I've ever come across, the label claim of being "Craft Beer" may be more indicative of size, rather than outright quality - the metallic off-flavours see to that.
Tijuana Güera from Consorcio Cervecero De Baja California ( La Taberna TJ )
Beer rating:
76 out of
100 with
39 ratings
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