Dos Equis Special Lager | Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, S.A. de C.V.

2.1/5  rDev -23.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

2.66/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75

3/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.44/5  rDev +25.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

3/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Very sweet and light on any real taste. Thirst quencher on a hot day.

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1.72/5  rDev -37.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2

3/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

L: brilliant straw gold with rapidly rising bubbles and a 3" white foam collar with fair to good retention

S: mild aroma of flowers, hop earthiness, light fruit, light corn, light cracker and bread dough

T: light corn sweetness, faint apple, light cracker and bread dough finished with a slight tartness and a mild bitterness

F: moderately creamy with a medium light body, medium high carbonation and a crisp finish

O: You are drinking this because you are in a Mexican restaurant and this is the only beer on the menu you recognize. You are not drinking this for its quality.

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3.39/5  rDev +23.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Decanted from a green bottle into a conical pint glass.
A: Pours a dark straw to brass color, not golden. Exuberant head, >one inch, short-lived and with little lacing.
S: Grainy to fresh bread aroma with what I felt to be an apricot/peach note.
T: Sweet lead with light malt predominating grassy and spicy flavors. Very lightly bittered with a sugary aftertaste.
M: Light bodied; effervescence a bit short-lived.
O: Typically, this brew is a bit skunked. I got a relatively fresh or well-managed batch and was surprised that I was genuinely able to enjoy it without adulteration. If you got it, and it's not 100%, a line wedge really does help (didn't need it this time).

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2.98/5  rDev +8.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

2.81/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.75

2.5/5  rDev -8.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

3.26/5  rDev +19%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.73/5  rDev +36.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

2.61/5  rDev -4.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75

3.58/5  rDev +30.7%
look: 5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

12 oz. bottle poured into pilsener
(best-by April 2018)

L: clear pale yellow, hard pour pushes up huge head, almost 2 inches tall and sticky ... the lacing off the head is pure art; laces on the way down off a full collar and skin

S: dusty yeast, grain, sour grain, lemon peel

T: fruity sweet, peach, grain, slight bit of lemon; the malt sweetness almost reaches breadiness; can taste just a bit watered at down at times, flavors all very light

F: classic light and crisp combo with loads of carbonation left over after the hard pour; holds up to large quaffing really well, doesn't taste too medicinal

O: surprising amount of barley malt presence and at times very tasty; flavors can sort of dial themselves in and out, and when they're out it's no better than average ... when those flavors hit right, though, it's super tasty

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3.05/5  rDev +11.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

Not terrible.

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1.77/5  rDev -35.4%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

Horrible. This is a beverage for those who hate beer. A Mexican version of Old Milwaukee, or some such low flavor swill.

Those who hate Macro brews should train their sites on this stuff, rather than venting on decent, genuine American style lagers.

What you get here is a sweet, low-flavor, no-hops, cloying, cheap, can-of-creamed-corn sensation with a really strange finish that tastes suspiciously like those old, 1990-era "dry" beers.

Awful. Don't waste your money, your time, or your health on this crap.

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1.82/5  rDev -33.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

2.41/5  rDev -12%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25

1.97/5  rDev -28.1%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5

1.48/5  rDev -46%
look: 1.25 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75

12 oz bottle. This is the best Mexican beer I’ve yet to rank on here. No skunk aroma like many of the cervezas from this country. Not bad flavor. Not all that great, but better than most of the beers from this country.

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2.75/5  rDev +0.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

2.95/5  rDev +7.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

1.75/5  rDev -36.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75