Sol Mezclas Clamato

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.