Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston

Commercial Brewery in Lima, Lima, Peru 🇵🇪
Owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev

Established in 1879

Contact
Av. Nicolás Ayllón 3986, Lima, 15012, Peru
Description
In 1908 Ernesto Günther and a group of investors founded in the city of Cusco, a branch of the Cervecería Alemana Günther & Tidow. In 1939 Cervecera Alemana Günther & Tido changed its name to Compañía Cervecera del Sur del Perú (Cervesur) and increased its production. In 2000 the company with its plants in Arequipa and Cusco, and with the popular brand Cusqueña, becomes part of the Backus Group (Backus y Johnston), thereby consolidating itself to the point of turning it into a company capable of competing in a globalized environment. Finally, in 2015, the Backus Group becomes part of AB InBev.

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3
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

Most people are wrong, they confuse the cusqueña with the real dorada that it disappears few years ago. It was a bad lager watery, malty, tasting this mediocre beer in Peru, a long time ago.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Dec 2025 at 10:36


3
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

In one Peruvian restaurant, at Sevilla, av Kansas city. A beer that the quality went down. It will be my last time to drink it, even a cruzcampo especial is better. This one is not pleasant at the palate, articial, metalic, sweet, few hop, beurk, 03.08.21

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2025 at 14:20


3
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

Travelling since years in Peru, I could say that this brewery is not good. The taste is watery, few malt, some corn, few hop, the problem is that you don't have another choice than this one or the callao pilsen, if you go to a popular place.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2025 at 14:13


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

It is a classical lager, boring, fortunately that Arequipa has a great food. The taste is a bit watery, malty, few hop, serving me this beer at some trips in this nice city of Arrequipa, better than Lima.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2025 at 21:12

gave a cheers!

5.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

(bottle 0,33l Advent calendar from Beershop.cz)
* Sweet and caramel. Ok. *
Dark brown. Medium, pale brown head. Sweet, caramel, light spicy. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2025 at 19:31


5

Thanks for this Bruno V.! Hope you’re having a great trip, we miss you in Montreal!

Tried from Can on 22 Nov 2025 at 21:35



6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

It is not my favourite style, but it is a kind of baltica porter, sweet, smocked, malty, some hop. I prefer la de trigo, 08.03.17, drinking at some opportunities in Peru, prefering a dry stout or a Munich dunkel German style beer or an English porter, in my point of view.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2025 at 15:12


3
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

Simply disgusting, any aroma, metalic, a kind of draft with few malt and hop, unpleasant and too expansive for what it is, 13.01.18, drinking it at Collique, Comas, purchased at one Metro, Comas

Tried from Can on 12 Oct 2025 at 20:57


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

It is a standard beer but it is not the same boring lager. The body is red-orange clear, a bit watery, malt, few bitterness and toffe touch, 29.04.16

Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2025 at 13:10