Sol Cerveza
Brewed by Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Brewery (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Monterrey/Orizaba, Mexico
Cerveza Sol is a lager from the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery in Mexico city, which is a mouthful to say! A popular brew, particularly liked on a hot summer’s day, sold in over 50 countries worldwide.
Founded in 1899 inside a small brewery near Mexico City called “El Salto del Agua”, a German brewmaster observed a sunbeam falling on the cooking pot; this natural phenomenon caught his attention, and in honor of that experience, he christened his new beer as “The Sun” (“Sol”). The beer soon became popular amongst the hard working ordinary people of the city who liked a beer or two after a hard days work.
In 1912, Cervecería Moctezuma acquired El Salto del Agua, and with it came the expansion of Cerveza Sol all around Mexico, but it wasn’t until the 1980’s that the brand started to get international significance with mass advertising in the UK, Germany and the USA. In 2010 the brand was acquired by Heineken International.
Sol has a habit of sponsoring football, at one stage it sponsored 15 teams in Mexico, under the slogan “football unites us”. They also sponsored the national team of Mexico. Well that’s one way to get people to drink your beer, as we all know how much football heads like to drink cheap alcohol!
Other products they make are Cerveza Sol Clamato, a red coloured shandy and Cerveza Sol Sal y Limón, a 4.5% vol lemon beer.
Review: 33cl clear bottle of Sol: 4.5% vol.
Coming in a light long necked bottle with the iconic sun logo of Sol, eye catching. This is a summer drink no doubt about it! Looks similar to Corona in its presentation and style, I thought it was when I initially looked at it! Can get it in cans too, but not sure for tap.
It is a beach time beer anyhow, Acapulco style, dont know how it will work though in the Northern European wet and cold harsh climate, but let’s see………
Through the bottle it looks a light yellow, but on pour we do get a nice sparkling golden colour with a very frothy creamy white head, a nice good bit of carbonation fizzing away. Some lacing present as well.
Looks ok, like a regular light lager would. Head maintains well. Surprisingly good on the eye.
A light lagery aroma which isn’t too bad on the nose getting the corn, and the grains. Ok.
On the taste it is very, very light, initially getting a creamy flavour, bit dry in the mouth as well.
Slight aftertaste of corn syrup which is not enjoyable.
This is a very light lager, but it has a dryness and a bit of a metallic feel to it that lets it down.
Overall it is not nice, and not as smooth as it should be.
Bit of an underlay taste and a harsh citric bitterness that’s annoying. A pass for me. A nothing beer.
Started in July 2016, this small craft beer brewery began when friends, after a conversation in a bar, decided to do something about the general staleness of the local beer scene in the town of Freising, in Bavaria, Southern Germany. They came up the name Wolfscraft to show that there beers were unpredictable and hard to pin down!
Nice brown bottle with a very cool pic of a blue wolf, its logo. Really catches the eye. 
But it manages to settle down and after a while the taste improves, eventually getting nice big mouthfuls, nice and crisp. Exotic fruits, the malts and grains present, but all the flavours are quite light, it’s really all about the hops. 
The brewing giant from The Netherlands, Heineken have always had a helping hand in the creation of this iconic brand. They came up with the idea of a brewery this side of the world, but were initially thinking of Indonesia, as the nation was a Dutch colony, but were denied. Singapore was then chosen. Together with Fraser and Neave (F&N), Heineken launched Malayan Breweries in 1931, and a year later we got Tiger Beer. Today, Heineken owns 42% of the shares of Asia Pacific Breweries.
Can find it as 5% vol. in other regions of the world. Comes in a bottle, can or from the tap. Popular in Asia especially as it is the perfect beer to have as the sun goes down.
Tasted like a regular lager, no real complaints there. Perhaps a little creamy off taste but generally it was ok. Getting the malts and grains, and the fruits, with the hops on the low level.
Founded in the year of 1777 by William Bass in the old industrial town of Burton-upon-Trent, in the centre of England. Bass Pale Ale was so popular that at one stage it was the biggest selling beer in the UK, and not only that but in the space of a hundred years, 1877, it was also the most popular beers in the whole wide world, 
Bought these cans, cheap, in local supermarket back home, and not sure exactly which version of the iconic beer I am trying. Is it the one brewed in the Uk, the old or new version, or the cheap import version from the States, or even the Belgian version! I think its the British version as that’s the one I have drank over the last few years. It used to be well popular growing up in Ireland and was a beer you would find served in pubs, but these days it has fallen out of favour. It was especially popular up in Dublin. But they sell them now in shiny cans with the famous iconic Bass image in the supermarkets here so that’s good enough for me. Whatever, the Irish version in the shiny can comes at a pathetic 3.8% alcohol volume!
On the nose I get a smell of some adjuncts, not great, overall very, very light smells and virtually odorless.