San Miguel Tradicion
San Miguel Fabricas De Cervaza Y Maltas S.A.

Copenhagen 12/56 2019. 66 cl bottle from Netto, Lygten, Kbh NV. The usual San Miguel brand design with a white label, a golden globe and the bewildering tagline Exploring the World since1890.

Pours clear yellow with a medium-sized white head. Settles as thin but frothy layer of foam crawling up the side of the glass. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is pale lager incarnate. Sweet malts, bready, lightly sugary. More moderate sour bitter odor rummaging in the background.

Medium strong carbonation. Thin, watery, fizzy texture.

Flavor is medium sweet followed by a more moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is sweetish with a lightly bitter undercurrent. Short.

Pretty standard macro pale lager beer. Not especially interesting but it will run down (due to gravity).

It's kind of strange as when you drink the San Miguel in Mallorca, it's a pretty good beer, both as draft or in bottle. However when bought outside Spain, it seems to be different!

This apparently is brewed in Barcelona, and it actually called "Tradicion" as opposed to Especial. Not sure what the difference is, and couldn't tell from their website.

Spanish draft San Miguel I actually like and would give a good rating to. This however is very lifeless and not so great...

Anyway, aroma is very malty. Flavour is quite flat, but improves as it warms up slightly. Not much of an aftertaste and quite dry, very overtly pasteurized I would suggest.

Not a fan, it's a shame as the stuff in Spain is pretty good. Now sure about the Singapore version...

Interestingly on the bottle it does not seem to specify exactly where it is made, it's very possible this is a cheaper and totally different version of the Spanish one, from memory I have had a UK brewed one before that was not so great also...