Presidente Light
Cervecería Nacional Dominicana

 

 

 

Not bad if you are sitting on the beach

Poured from a bottle into a pint glass
Appearance - The beer pours a clear straw color with a small head of white foam. The head fades fast, leaving a tiny bit of lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell - The aroma is strongest of a caramel smell mixed with a touch of bread and hay. There is a tiny bit of grain and bay on there as well.
Taste - The taste begins with a sweet corn syrup and caramel taste with a little bit of bread and cracker. Toward the end of the taste, some light herb and hay come to the tongue.
Mouthfeel - The body of the brew is light with a carbonation level that is average. For the style the feel is good and makes for an easy drinker.
Overall - Nothing great, but it is an easy drinking beach beer.

I would like to point out that it is against site policy to call out other raters in a negative fashion. By the same token, I would like to give my eternal thanks to my local, in-person trader, @tone77 for his massive recent drop-off that included this beer! I was astounded by how much beer he brought for me & shamed by the fact that mine was merely a paltry offering. 8=( I must atone to @tone77 !

From the Bottle (his drop-off, his call): "Presidente Light Pilsener Style Beer".

As I was prising the cap off of the Bottle for an eventual Pop!, I noticed a number of carbonation bubbles beginning to appear. Good! I like a well-carbonated beer. My follow-up slow, gentle C-Line pour still resulted in the formation of two-plus fingers of foamy. soapy, rocky, bone-white head with very good retention. Color was Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5) with NE-quality clarity, just deep enough to entice The Gelt Gang of Mammon, Croesus & Midas to drop in for a taste. Nose had a pronounced cereal-like graininess, but not much in the way of either hops or unwanted adjuncts. Hmm. Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, on the big side for a Lager. The taste was sweet, mildly of perhaps (?) corn, but the fact that it was nearly unidentifiable was a bonus. It was a little too sweet & malty for my taste, but certainly well within specs for this style. I was rather impressed that it came across so well, coming from a green glass (!) bottle. Finish was semi-sweet, bordering on semi-dry. Again. more sweet than I would have liked, but not bad overall. As far as a steady diet of it might be concerned, I could see tiring of it fairly quickly. YMMV.

Poured from a green 12 oz. bottle. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of light grains. Taste is malts, grains, highly refreshing. Feels medium/light bodied in the mouth and overall I found it to be more flavorful and enjoyable than many in this style.

6.5, yo soy dominicano

 

 

 

 

 

I was at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. The only beer they had was El Presidente and El Presidente Light. And because it was all-inclusive, there was no charge for the beers. And the beers were everywhere. Every room had a mini-fridge stocked with sodas, water and El Presidente. There was a bar everywhere. Every pool had a bar. There were three bars on the beach. Every restaurant had a bar. The main building had three different bars. When we checked it there was a bar right there at the check in, and at every bar the only beer they had was El Presidente and El Presidente Light.

And I was loving it. One day I had ten beers before lunch. I was drinking so much beer that I decided to switch to El Presidente Light because it has a lower alcohol rate and it was easier on the G.I. system. This will always be among my favs.

 

From a green bottle it pours a clear light yellow color. Smell and taste had notes of floral lemon grass with corn,rice and malts. Mouth feel crisp but watered down,ice cold on the beach this one is ok.

 

 

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Would like to point out Act25, twage04, StonedTrippin and a few others rated this on how it should be rated: it's a Caribbean light lager made in the Dominican Republic, so how does it hold up against other Caribbean light lagers? Like Red Stripe Light, Carib Light, Star Lite, etc.

Hey, not bad. It *does* have to be served ice-cold. Carbonation is impressive (and my $2.99 6-pack was flecked with dust and OOD)!

Presidente Light 12oz bottle, poured into new glass, had a neutral nose, light lace, fluffy on the tongue, an erstwhile but fleeting impression of melon and lemon, and a barely sweet-dank finish (as compared to the barely bitter-apple-pepper finish of a continental lager Light, like Heineken Light). When viewed appropriately versus other Caribbean Lights, it is more than passable (would probably pair well with anything from jerk chicken to ceviche), and represents a top value point if cruising or bar-hopping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presidente
A 3.25 as expected with more lace shards.
S 3 as expected. Watery
T 3.25 better than expected. Lemony. Cleansing scrubbing. No corn starchiness.
F. 3.25 clean good finish dry. Tingly.
O best of carribean

S- The aroma is pretty light and faint with some grainy malt along with a touch of hay and a hint of hops.

T- The taste is very light bodied with some pale malts and a clean finish.

M- The mouthfeel is light bodied with a high amount of carbonation.

D- Overall, Presidente Light is a decent light beer but nothing I have any interest in purchasing again.

 

 

 

Had on tap at a resort in the Dominican Republic. A light yellow with slightly higher than average carbonation. Malt and hop flavor or aroma is far harder to detect than in normal Presidente. Tastes more like the normal garden variety light macro adjunct lager. I had once and made sure to get normal Presidente from thereafter.