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Buenos Tiempos
Belching Beaver Pub 980
- From:
- Belching Beaver Pub 980
- California, United States
- Style:
- Vienna Lager
Ranked #79 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #23,173 - Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 8.06%
- Reviews:
- 8
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 17, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.25/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
16 oz can from Boise Co-op. Pale golden, zero head. Grainy aroma , corn, grits. Taste too, but without the cooked vegetables that is sometimes present in the style. Clean, smooth, nice aftertaste.
Nov 13, 2023Reviewed by laketang from Arizona
3.46/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Golden coloration with good head, but no real retention.
Bready biscuit scents.
Bready sweet, spicey edge.
Light and clean with good carbonation.
As suggested, a lime thrown in would not be bad.
May 06, 2022Bready biscuit scents.
Bready sweet, spicey edge.
Light and clean with good carbonation.
As suggested, a lime thrown in would not be bad.
Reviewed by Captain69 from Illinois
3.08/5 rDev -14.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.08/5 rDev -14.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
I have been drinking beers from this brewery since 2017 - getting then shipped from Craft Shack out of California. their beers have all been good with some 4.5 ratings /
this is listed as a Mexican lager - tasted against corona and a tecate - it stands up to both - great lager taste
May 10, 2020this is listed as a Mexican lager - tasted against corona and a tecate - it stands up to both - great lager taste
Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota
3.27/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Drinking from a can in a Pilsner glass. Bright straw gold permeated by streams of rapidly rising bubbles under a 1" white head with fair to good retention. It smells of bread crumb, light malt, earthy, spicy hops and a trace of skunk and faint fruit. It tastes slightly sweet and there is a little more fruit in the flavor than the aroma. there is still a hint of skunk in the flavor. The body is medium light and the carbonation is medium high. The beer is drinkable and refreshing but has a couple of odd notes that throw it off.
Jun 30, 2019Reviewed by IKR from California
3.72/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Clear light straw-yellow color with a generous-sized white head that gradually faded. A nice looking lager.
Smell: Bready aromas dominate. I don't get much of anything else.
Taste: I get some mild sweet fruity notes with some bready malt notes from the nose also present. The hop bitterness is subdued and the beer finishes slightly dry as the sweeter notes hang around for a while.
Mouth-feel: The body is light-bodied.with a fairly generous level of carbonation.
Overall: a friend of mine brought this over and I didn't know what to expect. I found it to be an easy drinking nice summer beer.
Jun 20, 2019Smell: Bready aromas dominate. I don't get much of anything else.
Taste: I get some mild sweet fruity notes with some bready malt notes from the nose also present. The hop bitterness is subdued and the beer finishes slightly dry as the sweeter notes hang around for a while.
Mouth-feel: The body is light-bodied.with a fairly generous level of carbonation.
Overall: a friend of mine brought this over and I didn't know what to expect. I found it to be an easy drinking nice summer beer.
Reviewed by Zorro from California
3.41/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Clear yellow beer with a small white colored head, could pass for Corona.
Smells sweet and corny. There is some real beer character though. Nobel hops are perfumey and grassy. Definite floral note to the smell of it.
Starts out sweet and stoutly hopped. Good hop bite, what the German Founders probably intended Mexican beer to be originally. Some scorched sugar taste. This could pass for German if you hid the can.
Mouthfeel is good.
Overall I am surprised. I expected another flavorless lager and got a good one instead.
Jun 09, 2019Smells sweet and corny. There is some real beer character though. Nobel hops are perfumey and grassy. Definite floral note to the smell of it.
Starts out sweet and stoutly hopped. Good hop bite, what the German Founders probably intended Mexican beer to be originally. Some scorched sugar taste. This could pass for German if you hid the can.
Mouthfeel is good.
Overall I am surprised. I expected another flavorless lager and got a good one instead.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.84/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
an easy drinking mexican lager thats crisp and minimal, just how i like them, and after having a mediocre locally produced one of these right before this one, it really popped to me as high quality and delicious, at a whole higher level that my previous beer, and even though its just a yellow lager, this is a good one, refreshing as can be and really clean. i love the flavor of mexican lager yeast, and wish more american breweries would put it to work, its always refreshing to me, has a natural lime essence in real mild form to my palate, and does a nice job drying beer out. this is super pale in color, almost watered down looking, and there isnt much of a head after it settles a minute, but there is a ton of carbonation, a really tidy and brisk and fresh pale malt complexion, and just a little bit of hop bitterness to crisp up the finish, minimal but delicious, summery, and infinitely drinkable. this is really like a four sip pint of beer, and really takes care of the thirst. not their most ambitious brew by any measure, but a nice go to drinker in their lineup, i have been digging their stuff lately! this is way better than its ratings here.
Jun 01, 2019Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
3.09/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
I had this beer on-tap in a mug at Special Brews in Lynnwood, WA.
Appearance: medium straw hue with a dash of haze and a thin layer of white foam. Not bad, but too light for a Vienna lager.
Smell: light and grainy; there's maybe a dash of corny aroma here that doesn't quite work for me in this style. Even macro Mexican lagers of the Vienna style don't have this much corniness.
Taste: lightly sweet malt with a bit of corniness and a little bit of hop bite. Not terrible, but unremarkable.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a good level of carbonation and some refreshing fluffiness.
Overall: I would not characterize this as a Vienna lager, if that is the intent. As an American Adjunct Lager, it'd be a good example of the style. Otherwise, it's wanting.
May 15, 2019Appearance: medium straw hue with a dash of haze and a thin layer of white foam. Not bad, but too light for a Vienna lager.
Smell: light and grainy; there's maybe a dash of corny aroma here that doesn't quite work for me in this style. Even macro Mexican lagers of the Vienna style don't have this much corniness.
Taste: lightly sweet malt with a bit of corniness and a little bit of hop bite. Not terrible, but unremarkable.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a good level of carbonation and some refreshing fluffiness.
Overall: I would not characterize this as a Vienna lager, if that is the intent. As an American Adjunct Lager, it'd be a good example of the style. Otherwise, it's wanting.
Buenos Tiempos from Belching Beaver Pub 980
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
18 ratings
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