Playa De La Cruz
Cervecería Centro Americana, S.A.

 

355ml bottle poured into pint glass 15//

A pale yellow with a crap load of bubbles but just a short lived fizzy foam for a head but it manages to leave a few patches of lace

S skunky cream corn, some wet cardboard and dusty dank basement, smells sweet but not all that sweet if you gnome saying

T more of the same, mexicrap for sure but it goes further south in more then one way, not quite drain pour but far from something I'd want to drink again

M I've never been to Guatemala but I wouldn't be surprised if the tap water has more body then this, sweet, skunky mess on the finish

O a safe alternative to tap water while traveling but that being said I'd probably take my chances

its a country tic but that's about it, no real reason to even bother unless you just need to experience the beer mecca that surely is Guatemala

12oz bottle. Does the stateside version's label only show the importer's name (World Brews), and not the actual Guatemalan brewer? If not, I'm left to wonder at the attained reading levels of those BAs who have come across this Corona clone before me. Anyhoo, part of a mixed six-pack from still the only place in Alberta's capital city that performs such a service.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of bubbly, thinly foamy dirty white head, which leaves a few ocean spouts of lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.

It smells of sweet, grainy malt, mostly of the corn and rice variety, a bit of lemon cleanser, and mildly skunky weedy, cooked veggie hops. The taste is more sweet, corn mash and sickly rice pudding maltiness, a growing phenolic solvent character, and more stale, mushy vegetal hops.

The bubbles are fairly sedate, the body a propped-up medium weight, straining not to fall under that unholy sugary mass, one which also begets an unearned pithy smoothness standing triple. It finishes sweet, sure but in the not-yet-activated by liquid corn sugar manner.

While not possessing the outright skank of some of its regional brethren, that's hardly something on which to rest this offering's scant positives - gee, it ain't as bad as the other guy. Gah - it's still unfortunately well within the same class, and not worth sullying your beach-going, or otherwise beer worthy experience.