Tenebrosa
Cervecería Artesanal LACH SA de CV

Beautiful label. Amber color with a huge thick off-white head with eternal retention and some laces.
Superb intense tropical aroma with notes of passion fruit, mango, pineapple, lots of lychees and orange peel.
Hoppy and balanced flavor with notes of grapefruit, passion fruit, slightly toasted malts, some spices, I guess I can feel the juniper, mango, American chalked yeast and a muffled malt base. Dry aftertaste with a pleasant bitterness and residual citrusy. It feels hoppier than its 35 IBUs, maybe due to its body.
Light body with appropriate carbonation, somewhat fizzy.
Amazing dry hop and the Mosaic and Juniper combo worked very well. Very sessionable. I wouldn’t tire to drink this again and again.

 

 

Picked this up at the Beer Box in Playa del Carmen. Tasted 26 December 2013, reviewed from notes.

Pours a medium golden color. Clear, with a little bit of visible carbonation. Head depends a lot on the pour; off-white, good retention, fine lacing. Appearance is good, but not the high point.

Smell erupts with awesome sweet orange citrus. A little citrus bite and a ton of sweet orange. It's a fantastic balance of fruit sweetness and citrus acidity, just sharp enough to cut the edge off it. Like some heavenly citrus fruit that I've never had.

Taste is pretty rich and fairly sweet, with a lot of citrus in the flavor. So much so that I wonder if it has citrus added, or if that's all from the hops. It's got plenty of bitterness, but it's balanced, and sweeter than many IPAs. I find the sweetness surprising given the low ABV, which again makes me wonder about fruit addition (or possibly just low attenuation?).

Feel is medium-light with dancing prickly carbonation. A perfect complement to the rest of the beer.

This is by far the best Mexican beer I've had; nothing else comes close. I would drink it in a heartbeat if it were in the US, and I can think of only a few APAs that I like better.