Especial (4.5%)
Grupo Modelo in Ciudad de México / Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.36
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Modelo Especial Mexican Beer is a full-flavored pilsner beer with a crisp taste. An orange blossom honey aroma and light hop character make this imported beer perfect for tailgating.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle, World Market. Pours gold with a sloppy white head that disappears very quickly. Aroma is skunk, corn chips, grass... actually inoffensive. Flavor is sweet bread, grass, corn chips. I'm shocked, but this isn't bad. Carbonation is thin, but this is totally drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2018
at 20:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 10/26/2017. Pours crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining that cap. Aromas of cracker, corn, white bread, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Okay aromas with pale malt/corn and minimal earthy hop notes; with very poor strength. Bit of skunk that dissipates over a minute or two. A bit fruity/yeasty, but not overwhelming. Taste of cracker, corn, white bread, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Very mild herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, corn, white bread, and light herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Good robustness of pale malt/corn and minimal earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Nicely clean on lager flavors, not too fruity/yeasty. Medium carbonation and light body; with a very smooth, fairly bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Fairly thin, but not too watery feeling. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is an okay pale adjunct lager. All around solid robustness of pale malt/corn and minimal earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. An enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2018
at 00:45
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at Black Prince, New Haw. Malty aroma with a sharp edge. Amber gold. No head. Light bitter. Hints of citrus. Malts again. Soda esque element from the fizzy carbonation. Light and watery. Soda carbonation, as mentioned. Abrupt finish. OK. Too fizzy. Too little flava.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2018
at 19:48
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
This one poured a clear yellow colour with a minimal, white head. No lacing. Scents include corn, honey and white bread. First swig was really thin and watery with flavours of corn and light malt. Finish is lightly bitter with corn flavour lingering.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2017
at 17:49
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Brewhouse and Kitchen, Bedford. Clear, golden, slightly carbonated. Slight skunk in the aroma with some cardboard and musty citrus. Cleaner taste than I'd envisaged. Refreshing without the distraction of flavour. I've had worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2017
at 16:52
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Clear golden colour, small white head of very low retention. Aroma: skunk, grainy malts, honey, restrained esters. Light to medium body. Medium sweet malty taste. grainy, some caramel. Low to light bitterness. What is 'especial' about it?
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2017
at 15:42