350 ml can enjoyed after a Canopy Tour / Zip Line excursion. Pour is clear golden with a one inch white head. Aroma of malt and corn. The corn smells grainy and unnatural. Taste is a bit cleaner than the nose, but is still the malt and corn. Palate is thin, a touch watery with a finish that featured the corn in an unpleasant way.

350 ml can drank aboard a Catamaran tour. Pour is clear golden with a one inch white head. The head is very foamy, and deposits decent lace is it retreats (clear plastic cup, mind you). Aroma of malt, spicy earthiness and a kiss of hops. This was actually the first beer I had in Costa Rica where I could smell hops. That’s good, I guess, since this was not a real pleasant hop aroma. Taste is malty, sweet chemical, grainy and a bitterness near the finish. Palate is thin with a long finish this is not terribly pleasant.

350 ml bottle drank at lunch with Red Snapper in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Pour is clear yellow golden with a two inch snow white head. Head falls fairly slow, with nice lacing. Aroma of almost nothing, perhaps a sweet fruitiness. Taste was watery with a touch of the fruit sweetness and a very brief moment of malt. Palate is thin and watery, with a dull earthy finish. This was the worst beer I had during my trip to Costa Rica, though the Red Snapper was the best I have ever had - good lunch!

350 ml can, enjoyed a few different times during my trip to Costa Rica. Pour is clear pale golden, water almost visible. Aroma of really not much at all, perhaps a touch of the malt, a kiss of the adjunct. Taste is actually pretty clean, though tasteless. This was much like any ordinary American Light beer, but perhaps a bit cleaner taste. Palate is crisp, watery, refreshing and inoffensive. Worked at the beach and pool.

350 ml can enjoyed at my hotel at Playa Conchal, Costa Rica. This was the beer that was the most available, and I had a bunch of it throughout my trip. Pour is clear very pale golden with a one inch off white head. A bunch of carbonation bubbles. Head falls fast. Aroma of faint malt, slightly dirty, very faint sweetness. Dull nose, but not unpleasant. Taste is ordinary Pale lager, some chemical sweet malt, maybe a hint of corn. This really did not warm up well. Palate is highly carbonated, thin with a cleaner finish than expected.

12 oz., loose bottle rack at Binny’s. Dated 30-SET-09 Ho hum. So I check off another country with another Heineken wannabe. But at least this came in a brown bottle. Not that it helped. Heavy, corny DMS smell as soon as I cracked the cap. Looks like a beer anyway. Taste has more of that corn (is that one of the "grains" in the description?). After a while, the corn taste fades, leaving mostly a malta soda taste. But at least a bit dry, like an actual finished beer. A trace of bitterness not related to any hops. Taste gets a little better by the end. Another light lager that probably goes down well in tropical climes. And, after 5 years, my first Central American beer.

Bottle: Poured a golden color with a fluffy white head. Aroma is grain and dirt. Taste is light with a veggie water taste.