Sol - Clamato
Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico 🇲🇽
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Regular|
Score
5.47
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can - Clamato juice and some spice. Cloudy orange red with no head. Carbonated sweet Clamato with a little spice kick. More juice than anything else and carbonation doesn’t help.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can shared at Garvie’s. Pours murky oink with a creamy white head. The nose has nice mellow tomato juice laced with chilli pepper. Medium sweet flavor, spicy, with biscuity lager, cayenne, minced tomato. Light bodied with average carbonation. Salty and spicy on the finish with further weak tomato juice. Not bad.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Can at Craig’s. Pours hazypale red with no head. Aromas of tomato soup, salt. Taste is sour, salty, fishy, tomato soup. Finishes thin. Gak.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
can at home .. light pinky ... thin white lacing ... soft tomato ... soft spice ... sweet tomato nose .. big big salty tomato ... soft spice .. juicy fruits ... light kick ... juicy ... soft zezty spice... i like this
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
One of the great joys of travelling is to discover the new and unique ways that other cultures approach beer. For example, in the USA they are afraid of alcohol and serve up a near-beer alternative called "Budweiser". Here in Mexico, their equivalent is Sol, who sells beer to people who don’t actually like beer. Take this clamato concoction for example - this smells like tomato juice soda with a twist of lemon, not exactly revolting however. It has all the effervescence of a tomato juice soda as well, with a foggy brown body and some okay head but it disappears far too quickly. Flavour is clamato to be sure, with juice a vague hint of malt in there. I’d call this clamato soda rather than beer itself. In fact I wonder if there is any beer in this at all, and only give it higher ranks because I don’t mind the occasional clamato now and then.