Pachanga
Sun King Brewing Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.72
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Pachanga is a Mexican-Style Lager with a crisp malt flavor and thirst-quenching character, perfect for hot days in the summer sun.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
On tap at IND airport.
Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, some lacing. Wet straw, grains, dough, mild bitter.
Ok
Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, some lacing. Wet straw, grains, dough, mild bitter.
Ok
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jun 2026
at 19:51
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Crisp and pty. Golden pour without much head but strangely some lacing. Empty finish. I guess that's good for a cheap lager. Tap at airport Sun King.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jun 2023
at 21:00
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
OK, so first off I think that mexicali lagers are not the same as typical pale lagers. Also, light lagers are not the same as pale lagers. Just like IPA, JMHO, there should be a few separate styles for the disrespected pale lagers. This stuff, off the bat, seems to come in at the premium lager style. It lacks the lemon influences so common in the typical mexican pale lagers. So be it. We need to divide up the common pale lagers. They need more respect, more so than the 50 different branches of the IPA styles.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2022
at 21:27
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. Pours pale gold. Sulfur, slight acidity, grain, lemon. Medium body. Not great.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2022
at 01:45
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
can. randomly had a Pachanga during Thanksgiving. Not awful, but pretty simple pale lager.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2019
at 14:28
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7
12 oz. can. 4.2% ABV. 24 IBU. Pours a crystal clear light yellow color with a fizzy white head and fair retention. No real lacing. Grainy lager aroma. Crisp grainy lager flavor. Has a bit of a Euro lager light skunk finish. Light body and easy drinking. Unremarkable, but a good summer beer.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Feb 2019
at 22:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Poured a golden with bubbles head. Aroma is grain. Taste is nice fresh grainy.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2018
at 06:37
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
can - Clear light gold pour. Malty, grainy aroma. The flavor is sweet and grainy with some corn and a little mild hops bitterness. Light bodied. I guess it's good compared to most of the pale lagers out there, but that's not saying much.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2017
at 20:15
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Corn, barley malt, and straw aroma. Golden yellow with large white head. Mildly sweet corn, barley malt, and mildly bitter herbal hay flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2017
at 08:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can sent by Sun King for Review. My pour, into an admittedly small sample glass, is light yellow, and with a fizzy white head that disappears quickly. There was a bit of alcohol in the smell at first, but that was during the pour. What’s left is a hint of light malt, what I call the bowling alley beer smell. The taste is indeed crisp, with only enough hop to keep the malt from getting sweet. Yes, it’s like a megabrewed light lager, but a lot of those can show the faults of cheap production, while others will hit the spot under the right circumstances, like a hot summer night (hello, Schaefer Light). It’s not a hot summer night now, and I’m drinking this out of a fridge, but not too cold that I can’t taste it.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jun 2017
at 17:12