Michelada de Pacífico

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A Michelada is a Mexican beer cocktail that is very popular during the summer months. The recipe is quite simple, and my favourite is below:

• 1 Mexican pale lager (Corona, Sol, Pacífico or Montejo recommended)
• 2.5 limes
• Salt
• Maggi seasoning
• Worcestershire sauce
• Valentina sauce (optional)
• Habanero or Tabasco Habanero sauce (optional)

Get a proper beer mug and fill the rim with salt. Squeeze the juice out of the lemons, add a couple of drops of the sauces in the list and finally the beer.

Enjoy!

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Chocolate caramel colour. Bouquet of blueberry toffee. Creamy but not mushy head. Intial taste of bitter trappist, later becomes softer, gitst of saaristoleipä initially, then notes of blueberry, cream and honey. Awesome experience, great beer. No wonder it is regarded as the best beer in Belgium and probably the world.

Found this Salitos pseudo-Mexican beer in the shelves of my local supermarket.  After a little bit of googling found out it is produced in Germany by a company that has nothing to do with Latin America at all.  This is the kind of marketing that I absolutely abhor: when companies find a market niche they try to fill by being something they’re not.  This kind of misleading advertising worked before people had access to information, now with the net everybody can see if the emperor has no clothes.

En México y el Círculo Polar Ártico, la cerveza es… Corona (o Sol).

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¿Las cervezas mexicanas que se venden en Europa se embotellan de este lado del charco o las importan ya listas para distribuir en sus puntos de venta?

Belgian Beer Review: Gulden Draak

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A slightly fruity dark ale with a strong flavour and a beautiful chocolate colour. However, I don’t like beers where the taste of alcohol is too obvious, so this was not one of my favourites.
I found it in a bar in Finland while doing a beer tasting.

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elgian beer review: Bush
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Extremely strong Belgian amber beer. Unless you are really into beers with high alcoholic content it is really not recommended, even if the bottle looks nice.

Here ends the Belgian beer review. I had some of these stored for a while (sorry for the delay), and won’t be able to try new ales until I visit Belgium again.

Belgian beer review: Rodenbach
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Sweet and sour beer, very fruity and dark. Not a taste I would recommend unless you like bitter krieks.

Belgian beer review: Maredsous Triple / Tripel
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Very strong abbey beer. Dark amber colour, good head with a malt aroma.

Belgian beer review: Hapkin
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Fresh blonde beer witha slightly dry finish.

Belgian beer review: Belle-Vue Kriek Classique
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A rather unremarkable kriek. Not enough cherries to taste like contemporary krieks, which gives it more of a cider character.