beer in mexico

**tommy** · 03-25-2004

THE HISTORY OF DOS EQUIS.

In 1884, a German brewer named Wilhelm Hasse emigrated from his homeland and established the Moctezuma brewery in Veracruz, Mexico. In 1897, Hasse blended his brewing heritage with the spirit of Mexican tradition to create Dos Equis.
Dos Equis (pronounced Dohs-Eh-Keys) translates in English as “two-x’s”. The beer was originally named “Siglio XX” - 20th century - to signify the approaching millennium. Dos Equis carries the distinctive “XX”, symbolizing a celebration of the last century, its revolutionary vision and honoring the new millennium.
Dos Equis Amber made its U.S. debut in 1973 and continues to thrive with two successful flavors: Dos Equis Special Lager, a golden, aromatic European-style pilsner; and Dos Equis Amber, a smooth, full-bodied Vienna-style amber lager. XX

Dos Equis’ sister brand Tecate was the world’s first beer brand to encourage its drinkers to add a wedge of lime to a can of beer. The brewery introducetd this innovation in the 1950s and it was an immediate hit with Tecate drinkers.Tecate with lime was so successful that in time it became the accepted way to serve all Mexican beers. Dos Equis does not specifically promote the lime but we dont mind if you use one.

The Spanish Conquest
The first brewery in the Americas was founded two decades after the fall of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán.
On 16 July 1542, the Emperor Carlos V granted Alonso de Herrera a permit for his brewery on the condition that he gave a third of the profits to the Crown and and undertook to transport the vats and other equipment from Europe.
Two years later, on 15 May 1544, Alonso de Herrera was able to report to Carlos V that the business was a great success. This was confirmed on 5 September 1550 when royal officials were ordered to collect the value of a third of the beer brewed in the city for the Crown.

After this auspicious beginning, however, little is known of the history of beer in New Spain. It is possible that the authorities cracked down on its consumption, and in any case it had to compete with a great variety of traditional Pre-Hispanic fermented drinks.
Among the most popular during the viceregal period were such indigenous brews as chicha, zambumbia, and tesgüino.
The Colonial Period
It is hard to estimate the number of small breweries established in Mexico during this period. However, Von Humboldt's figure of 71,806 bottles of beer imported through the port of Veracruz in 1802 suggests that consumption was not inconsiderable.

Independence
Three years after the proclamation of Independence in 1810, beer-related issues were already being debated in the legislative congress. A few examples: two British citizens, Thomas Gillons and Charles Mairet, asked Congress to grant them the right to brew beer; at the session held on 4 March 1824, Congressman Miguel Ramos Arizpe mentioned that beer was already being brewed in Texas and Puebla; and on 12 February in the same year Justino Tuallion, was claiming that he had been granted the exclusive right to start a brewery in Mexico City.
According to the historian Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Tuallion would go on to brew "Poorhouse", the most popular beer in newly independent México. It was given its name because the brewery was built near the site of an institution devoted to helping the needy.
In 1825, a man called Notley was making English-style ginger beer in San Cosme. A refreshing brew, it was also an effective remedy for fevers and other ailments caused by exposure to excessive heat.

Tuallion and Notley were probably not alone in creating the Mexican taste for beer in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. One traveller, William Bullock, foresaw a favorable future for the brewing industry in those years. He pointed out that Mexican barley was as good as any in Europe and that hops could be imported from England or the United States until they were grown locally.
In those days, however, it still seemed unlikely that beer would ever replace the traditional pulque as the public's favorite.
In 1845, a Swiss, Bernhard Bolgard, founded La Pila Seca Brewery in Mexico City. It was the first brewery in the country to use the top-fermentation process. The beer was dark, made with Mexican sun-dried malt which had been sweetened with brown sugar. This was the basic recipe for all Mexico beers until the 1870s, when the "Toluca y México" Brewery began to make lager.
In 1869, an Alsatian brewer, Emil Dercher, opened La Cruz Blanca Brewery. It continued to produce lager in Mexico City until 1898.
In 1879, Emilio Bustos estimated that the annual production of Mexico City's seven breweries was worth 114,000 pesos. This put the brewing of beer in seventeenth place among Mexico City's industries, far behind tobacco, clothing, shoes, bread, bacon, textiles, and milled flour, each of which had production worth more than a million pesos.
However, breweries were not confined to Mexico City. They were also found in other cities, such as Guadalajara, where the owners would invite their customers to visit their premises and marvel at their spectacular machinery whose cost in those days was the then considerable sum of 10,000 pesos.

Railroads
The building of Mexico's railroads in the 1880s marked the beginning of the country's modern brewing industry.
Imported machinery and malt from the USA, icemaking plants —an essential part of the industry— and most of all a market capable of sustaining more sophisticated breweries were some of the most notable characteristics of the age.
The coming of the railroads also meant that domestic brewers had to face the challenge set by US producers, who were now able to penetrate the Mexican market on a large scale.
The opening in 1884-5 of the railroad line between El Paso, Texas, and Mexico City was a decisive event in the growth of the breweries.
The leading brewer of the time was Santiago Graf, who in 1875 bought the "Toluca y México" Brewery, which had been founded ten years earlier by a Swiss, Agustín Marendaz"
Graf began to produce a higher quality ale type beer, although he continued to use the top-fermentation process. A few years later, he installed modern icemaking machinery, and in 1882 he imported German equipment that allowed him to make the first Mexican lager - Toluca lager.
In the 1890s a great amount of money was invested in building modern breweries in different parts of Mexico. As a result, by 1910 only 500 thousand liters of beer were imported (compared to three million liters in 1889-90). This period is considered to be Mexican beer's first boom.
In 1891, Isaac Garza, José A. Muguerza, Francisco Sada, and Joseph M Schnaider, a brewer from Saint Louis, Missouri, founded the Cuauhtémoc Brewery in Monterrey, Nuevo León. In 1894 they took over four small breweries in the city of Orizaba, Veracruz - La Santa Elena, La Mexicana, La Azteca, and La Inglesa. In 1896 they added the Sonora Brewery and in 1900 the Pacífico.

Bonanza at the turn of the century
This period saw breweries built in the Mexican Southeast and Northeast.
On 7 April 1899, José María Ponce & Co. founded a brewery in Merida, Yucatan, the Gran Cervecería Yucateca®, which began by producing beers under the Cruz Roja, Estrella®, Conejo, and Mestiza labels. The following year the company changed its name to Cervecería Yucateca®, a regional brewery that won an immediate reputation with its Carta Clara® y León® brands.

Meantime on the other side of the country, another brewery, Cervecería del Pacífico, was being incorporated in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. In 1901 it opened its brewery and launched its Pacífico® Pilsner. Its founders - Jorge Claussen, Germán Evers, Emilio Philippi, César Boelken, Federico Marburg, and Jacob Schuele - were of German origin.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were no fewer than 29 registered breweries in Mexico. According to The Western Brewer, a US magazine, there were 19 breweries in Mexico in 1903. With their modern brewing, refrigeration, and bottling plants, they produced a beer that was slightly paler than the US brews, the result of using 15% - 30% of rice in their brewing process.
Most beer was sold in bottles and almost all the malt was imported from Germany and the USA. Only two breweries - La Toluca and La Perla - prepared their own malt. According to historian Miguel Alessio Robles, by 1918 there were 36 breweries in Mexico.
This was the scenario until 1922, when a group of Spanish businessmen created the company that would found the Modelo Brewery.
By 1925, nearly 2,500 people were employed in the industry, total capital was about 20 million pesos, and domestic production was running at 50 million liters.
In that year the National Statistics Bureau reported that only 7% of Mexican men and 5% of women drank beer - only a tenth of the number who drank pulque.
Mexican beer was on the threshold of a new era.

1) Sol
2) Noche Buena
3) Tecate
4) Bohemia
5) Chihuahua
6) Carte Blanaca
7) Superior
8) Modelo Especial
9) Modelo Light
10) Negra Modelo
11) Pacifico
12) Leon
13) Montejo
14) Estrella
15) Corona
16) Corona light
17) Victoria
18) Dos Equis special lagaer
19) Dos Equis Amber

and maybe a few i missed...

whats your favorite??

**tommy** · 03-25-2004

My personal rating.. no lime in most !

1) Sol - 5 out of 10 buy them here for $8.49 a twelve pack..we drink them alot
2) Noche Buena- 5 out of 10
3) Tecate- 4 out of 10 preffer in the bottle with lime…
4) Bohemia- 4 out of 10 taste like perfume to me ..
5) Chihuahua- 5 out of 10
6) Carte Blanaca- 5 out of 10
7) Superior- 7 out of 10 fresh and clean easy to drink
8) Modelo Especial- 3 out of 10 my least favorite
9) Modelo Light- 3 out of 10
10) Negra Modelo- 9 out of 10 nuff said…darn good beer
11) Pacifico- 8 out of 10 I like this one a lot as well
12) Leon- 5 out of 10
13) Montejo- 8 out of 10 easier to find and better than corona
14) Estrella-???
15) Corona- 6 out of 10 my wifes favorite..always in the frig..
16) Corona light- 5 out of 10
17) Victoria- 8 out of 10 a new favorite of mine..a great change
18) Dos Equis special lagaer-12 my favorite of all
19) Dos Equis Amber-10 my second favorite of all mostly in the winter..

1 being poor. 10 being great 12 is off the charts

Casta Morena yet to be tasted..but on my list James.

mckinzie · 03-25-2004

Thanks for the info Tommy.

Definitely another reason for me to track down one of those
Playainfo beer wetsuits

49 more days and counting

Mave · 03-25-2004

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On 16 July 1542, the Emperor Carlos V granted Alonso de Herrera a permit for his brewery on the condition that he gave a third of the profits to the Crown and and undertook to transport the vats and other equipment from Europe.
Two years later, on 15 May 1544, Alonso de Herrera was able to report to Carlos V that the business was a great success.

I knew I liked this guy (Carlos V, that is). Beer AND chocolate. Wasn't his picture on those little chocolate bars I was eating during my visit?

My fav on the list was Noche Buena. Negra Modelo is great, too. I went for Sol in my buckets of beer, just because I like a lighter flavor when I'm sitting on the beach. I never saw Victoria and it was one I wanted to try. Ah...a mission for next visit!

Thanks for the great post!

Mave

Rainman · 03-25-2004

Tommy thanks for the beer ratings . Tried a couple of your fav.s seems like our taste are simular . You just saved me hundreds of dollars from not haveing to try 5 and under picks . Thanks.
Rainman

DavidB · 03-25-2004

Just so you know, I think Tommy did all the beer tasting, rankings on his first day in Playa.

mckinzie · 03-25-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidB

Just so you know, I think Tommy did all the beer tasting, rankings on his first day in Playa.

By looking at some of his pics I would say so.

Good job Houston!!!!!

**tommy** · 03-25-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by mckinzie

By looking at some of his pics I would say so.

Good job Houston!!!!!

Houston we have a problem! come on guys i only drank 32 cervezas the first day and 4 of those really didnt count cause they were foster's and 7 of the 32 were apple juice!!!!!!

**Jesus** · 03-25-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mave

I knew I liked this guy (Carlos V, that is). Beer AND chocolate. Wasn't his picture on those little chocolate bars I was eating during my visit?

Yes, and that's the name of the chocolate bar: Carlos V.

**james** · 03-25-2004

the list is actually missing the best beers in Mexico. Casta.

Their Morena is the best beer made in Mexico.

Quoting another source:

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Morena Dark Ale
This is a medium, dark ale registering at 6.0% alcohol/volume.

The initial aroma is that of a sweet, dark, roasted, malt. There are very subtle hop characteristics

The color is very dark, brown, amber with yellow hues. Pretty. Clear. Head dissipates quickly and could be better.

In contrast to the nose, the initial taste is actually of hop bitterness. It is well conditioned and the bubbles wrap around the tongue satisfactorily. The malt is suspiciously absent considering the nose. There is a nutty flavor on the finish however. Ironically, the beer does seem well balanced.

Medium bodied. Lighter than one expects in a darker beer. But nonetheless, pleasant.

A very drinkable beer. Perfect for the barbecue if you're not in the lager mood, but also very appropriate for steaks and other meats.

An interesting note: as the beer warms, the malt characteristics strengthen and beer becomes more the silky glove one would expect from a strong, dark ale. Thus, my recommendation is to serve this beer at cellar--not refrigerator--temperature.

The judges give this a 43, Excellent.

**tommy** · 03-25-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by james

the list is actually missing the best beers in Mexico. Casta.

Their Morena is the best beer made in Mexico.

i have added it to the list james but i cant rate it as i have never had it..but it is on my list to try.. thanks for the input..i would guess you rate it a 12???

positivethinktank · 03-26-2004

I'll put in a vote for modela negra. Easy drinking, good tasting beer.

**tommy** · 03-26-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainman

Tommy thanks for the beer ratings . Tried a couple of your fav.s seems like our taste are simular . You just saved me hundreds of dollars from not haveing to try 5 and under picks . Thanks.
Rainman

these are just my thoughts,as im sure people will disagree with me..however when the sun is shinnin and the beer is cold(and its mexican) ill drink it...so i encourage you to try them out for yourself!!!

mikenphyl · 03-26-2004

Hmmm many good beers, but in the hot Playa sun Ill take an ice cold Sol.

Huey · 03-26-2004

So many cervezas so few days of vacation. Montejo is a primo cold
one, but one should not bronze at the beach for a week without
sampling Victoria and Leon.

bottoms up...

03-25-2004	#1 (permalink)
tommy Rastaman Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Austin Tx Posts: 12,822 Blog Entries: 5	beer in mexico THE HISTORY OF DOS EQUIS. In 1884, a German brewer named Wilhelm Hasse emigrated from his homeland and established the Moctezuma brewery in Veracruz, Mexico. In 1897, Hasse blended his brewing heritage with the spirit of Mexican tradition to create Dos Equis. Dos Equis (pronounced Dohs-Eh-Keys) translates in English as “two-x’s”. The beer was originally named “Siglio XX” - 20th century - to signify the approaching millennium. Dos Equis carries the distinctive “XX”, symbolizing a celebration of the last century, its revolutionary vision and honoring the new millennium. Dos Equis Amber made its U.S. debut in 1973 and continues to thrive with two successful flavors: Dos Equis Special Lager, a golden, aromatic European-style pilsner; and Dos Equis Amber, a smooth, full-bodied Vienna-style amber lager. XX Dos Equis’ sister brand Tecate was the world’s first beer brand to encourage its drinkers to add a wedge of lime to a can of beer. The brewery introducetd this innovation in the 1950s and it was an immediate hit with Tecate drinkers.Tecate with lime was so successful that in time it became the accepted way to serve all Mexican beers. Dos Equis does not specifically promote the lime but we dont mind if you use one. The Spanish Conquest The first brewery in the Americas was founded two decades after the fall of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. On 16 July 1542, the Emperor Carlos V granted Alonso de Herrera a permit for his brewery on the condition that he gave a third of the profits to the Crown and and undertook to transport the vats and other equipment from Europe. Two years later, on 15 May 1544, Alonso de Herrera was able to report to Carlos V that the business was a great success. This was confirmed on 5 September 1550 when royal officials were ordered to collect the value of a third of the beer brewed in the city for the Crown. After this auspicious beginning, however, little is known of the history of beer in New Spain. It is possible that the authorities cracked down on its consumption, and in any case it had to compete with a great variety of traditional Pre-Hispanic fermented drinks. Among the most popular during the viceregal period were such indigenous brews as chicha, zambumbia, and tesgüino. The Colonial Period It is hard to estimate the number of small breweries established in Mexico during this period. However, Von Humboldt's figure of 71,806 bottles of beer imported through the port of Veracruz in 1802 suggests that consumption was not inconsiderable. Independence Three years after the proclamation of Independence in 1810, beer-related issues were already being debated in the legislative congress. A few examples: two British citizens, Thomas Gillons and Charles Mairet, asked Congress to grant them the right to brew beer; at the session held on 4 March 1824, Congressman Miguel Ramos Arizpe mentioned that beer was already being brewed in Texas and Puebla; and on 12 February in the same year Justino Tuallion, was claiming that he had been granted the exclusive right to start a brewery in Mexico City. According to the historian Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Tuallion would go on to brew "Poorhouse", the most popular beer in newly independent México. It was given its name because the brewery was built near the site of an institution devoted to helping the needy. In 1825, a man called Notley was making English-style ginger beer in San Cosme. A refreshing brew, it was also an effective remedy for fevers and other ailments caused by exposure to excessive heat. Tuallion and Notley were probably not alone in creating the Mexican taste for beer in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. One traveller, William Bullock, foresaw a favorable future for the brewing industry in those years. He pointed out that Mexican barley was as good as any in Europe and that hops could be imported from England or the United States until they were grown locally. In those days, however, it still seemed unlikely that beer would ever replace the traditional pulque as the public's favorite. In 1845, a Swiss, Bernhard Bolgard, founded La Pila Seca Brewery in Mexico City. It was the first brewery in the country to use the top-fermentation process. The beer was dark, made with Mexican sun-dried malt which had been sweetened with brown sugar. This was the basic recipe for all Mexico beers until the 1870s, when the "Toluca y México" Brewery began to make lager. In 1869, an Alsatian brewer, Emil Dercher, opened La Cruz Blanca Brewery. It continued to produce lager in Mexico City until 1898. In 1879, Emilio Bustos estimated that the annual production of Mexico City's seven breweries was worth 114,000 pesos. This put the brewing of beer in seventeenth place among Mexico City's industries, far behind tobacco, clothing, shoes, bread, bacon, textiles, and milled flour, each of which had production worth more than a million pesos. However, breweries were not confined to Mexico City. They were also found in other cities, such as Guadalajara, where the owners would invite their customers to visit their premises and marvel at their spectacular machinery whose cost in those days was the then considerable sum of 10,000 pesos. Railroads The building of Mexico's railroads in the 1880s marked the beginning of the country's modern brewing industry. Imported machinery and malt from the USA, icemaking plants —an essential part of the industry— and most of all a market capable of sustaining more sophisticated breweries were some of the most notable characteristics of the age. The coming of the railroads also meant that domestic brewers had to face the challenge set by US producers, who were now able to penetrate the Mexican market on a large scale. The opening in 1884-5 of the railroad line between El Paso, Texas, and Mexico City was a decisive event in the growth of the breweries. The leading brewer of the time was Santiago Graf, who in 1875 bought the "Toluca y México" Brewery, which had been founded ten years earlier by a Swiss, Agustín Marendaz" Graf began to produce a higher quality ale type beer, although he continued to use the top-fermentation process. A few years later, he installed modern icemaking machinery, and in 1882 he imported German equipment that allowed him to make the first Mexican lager - Toluca lager. In the 1890s a great amount of money was invested in building modern breweries in different parts of Mexico. As a result, by 1910 only 500 thousand liters of beer were imported (compared to three million liters in 1889-90). This period is considered to be Mexican beer's first boom. In 1891, Isaac Garza, José A. Muguerza, Francisco Sada, and Joseph M Schnaider, a brewer from Saint Louis, Missouri, founded the Cuauhtémoc Brewery in Monterrey, Nuevo León. In 1894 they took over four small breweries in the city of Orizaba, Veracruz - La Santa Elena, La Mexicana, La Azteca, and La Inglesa. In 1896 they added the Sonora Brewery and in 1900 the Pacífico. Bonanza at the turn of the century This period saw breweries built in the Mexican Southeast and Northeast. On 7 April 1899, José María Ponce & Co. founded a brewery in Merida, Yucatan, the Gran Cervecería Yucateca®, which began by producing beers under the Cruz Roja, Estrella®, Conejo, and Mestiza labels. The following year the company changed its name to Cervecería Yucateca®, a regional brewery that won an immediate reputation with its Carta Clara® y León® brands. Meantime on the other side of the country, another brewery, Cervecería del Pacífico, was being incorporated in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. In 1901 it opened its brewery and launched its Pacífico® Pilsner. Its founders - Jorge Claussen, Germán Evers, Emilio Philippi, César Boelken, Federico Marburg, and Jacob Schuele - were of German origin. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were no fewer than 29 registered breweries in Mexico. According to The Western Brewer, a US magazine, there were 19 breweries in Mexico in 1903. With their modern brewing, refrigeration, and bottling plants, they produced a beer that was slightly paler than the US brews, the result of using 15% - 30% of rice in their brewing process. Most beer was sold in bottles and almost all the malt was imported from Germany and the USA. Only two breweries - La Toluca and La Perla - prepared their own malt. According to historian Miguel Alessio Robles, by 1918 there were 36 breweries in Mexico. This was the scenario until 1922, when a group of Spanish businessmen created the company that would found the Modelo Brewery. By 1925, nearly 2,500 people were employed in the industry, total capital was about 20 million pesos, and domestic production was running at 50 million liters. In that year the National Statistics Bureau reported that only 7% of Mexican men and 5% of women drank beer - only a tenth of the number who drank pulque. Mexican beer was on the threshold of a new era. 1) Sol 2) Noche Buena 3) Tecate 4) Bohemia 5) Chihuahua 6) Carte Blanaca 7) Superior 8) Modelo Especial 9) Modelo Light 10) Negra Modelo 11) Pacifico 12) Leon 13) Montejo 14) Estrella 15) Corona 16) Corona light 17) Victoria 18) Dos Equis special lagaer 19) Dos Equis Amber and maybe a few i missed... whats your favorite?? __________________ Till Summer!!!!

03-25-2004	#2 (permalink)
tommy Rastaman Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Austin Tx Posts: 12,822 Blog Entries: 5	My personal rating.. no lime in most ! 1) Sol - 5 out of 10 buy them here for $8.49 a twelve pack..we drink them alot 2) Noche Buena- 5 out of 10 3) Tecate- 4 out of 10 preffer in the bottle with lime… 4) Bohemia- 4 out of 10 taste like perfume to me .. 5) Chihuahua- 5 out of 10 6) Carte Blanaca- 5 out of 10 7) Superior- 7 out of 10 fresh and clean easy to drink 8) Modelo Especial- 3 out of 10 my least favorite 9) Modelo Light- 3 out of 10 10) Negra Modelo- 9 out of 10 nuff said…darn good beer 11) Pacifico- 8 out of 10 I like this one a lot as well 12) Leon- 5 out of 10 13) Montejo- 8 out of 10 easier to find and better than corona 14) Estrella-??? 15) Corona- 6 out of 10 my wifes favorite..always in the frig.. 16) Corona light- 5 out of 10 17) Victoria- 8 out of 10 a new favorite of mine..a great change 18) Dos Equis special lagaer-12 my favorite of all 19) Dos Equis Amber-10 my second favorite of all mostly in the winter.. 1 being poor. 10 being great 12 is off the charts Casta Morena yet to be tasted..but on my list James. Last edited by sun seekers; 03-25-2004 at 06:04 PM..

03-26-2004	#15 (permalink)
Huey way into it Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Minnesota Posts: 137	cerveza So many cervezas so few days of vacation. Montejo is a primo cold one, but one should not bronze at the beach for a week without sampling Victoria and Leon. bottoms up...

View Poll Results: whats your favorite
Noche Buena	4	3.77%
Tecate	5	4.72%
Bohemia	4	3.77%
Chihuahua	0	0%
Carte Blanaca	0	0%
Superior	3	2.83%
Modelo Especial	8	7.55%
Modelo Light	3	2.83%
Negra Modelo	18	16.98%
Pacifico	9	8.49%
Leon	7	6.60%
Montejo	6	5.66%
Estrella	0	0%
Corona	8	7.55%
Corona light	1	0.94%
Victoria	2	1.89%
Dos Equis special lagaer	10	9.43%
Dos Equis Amber	15	14.15%
Casta Morena	1	0.94%
Sol	24	22.64%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 106. You may not vote on this poll

03-25-2004	#3 (permalink)
mckinzie lightweight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Highland Village,Tx (Kinz Standard Time) Posts: 13,572	Thanks for the info Tommy. Definitely another reason for me to track down one of those Playainfo beer wetsuits 49 more days and counting

03-25-2004	#5 (permalink)
Rainman life=playa Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cincinnati;OH Posts: 555	Tommy thanks for the beer ratings . Tried a couple of your fav.s seems like our taste are simular . You just saved me hundreds of dollars from not haveing to try 5 and under picks . Thanks. Rainman

03-25-2004	#6 (permalink)
DavidB añejo Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Mid Mich Posts: 3,289	Just so you know, I think Tommy did all the beer tasting, rankings on his first day in Playa.

03-26-2004	#12 (permalink)
positivethinktank very sparkly Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hudson Valley, NY. Posts: 31	I'll put in a vote for modela negra. Easy drinking, good tasting beer.

03-26-2004	#14 (permalink)
mikenphyl Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Left Of Chicago Posts: 9	Hmmm many good beers, but in the hot Playa sun Ill take an ice cold Sol.

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