Tecate Beer (12 oz. can)
Item Purchased: Tecate Beer (12 oz. can)
Location Purchased: Handlebar Bar & Grill / 2311 W. North Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $2.50 + tax
Review: Tecate's slogan should be: "Because Corona is gross and Old Style isn't Mexican."
A cheap and pale lager, Tecate is fairly interchangeable with beers such as Old Style or PBR. It has a refreshingly crisp taste and comes in an unmistakeable red and gold can (unlike those other two brands that have the same color scheme). Tecate is also often served with a lime wedge (which most Mexicans don't used in their beer, I'm told) just like Corona. Drinking my beer over a mid-afternoon Sunday meal of blackened catfish, I realized something. I realized that I should add lime to more of the pale lagers I drink. Unlike the off-piss flavor that Corona develops with or without lime, Tecate actually tastes quite good as a citrus drink.
In addition to the great taste, it is worth noting that Tecate was the first beer to introduce the ecologically friendly non-removeable pull-tab on its cans back in 1985, thus reducing lager related pollution and making it much more difficult for the Ronald McDonald House to raise money.
Rating: 3.75 / 5
Location Purchased: Handlebar Bar & Grill / 2311 W. North Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $2.50 + tax
Review: Tecate's slogan should be: "Because Corona is gross and Old Style isn't Mexican."
A cheap and pale lager, Tecate is fairly interchangeable with beers such as Old Style or PBR. It has a refreshingly crisp taste and comes in an unmistakeable red and gold can (unlike those other two brands that have the same color scheme). Tecate is also often served with a lime wedge (which most Mexicans don't used in their beer, I'm told) just like Corona. Drinking my beer over a mid-afternoon Sunday meal of blackened catfish, I realized something. I realized that I should add lime to more of the pale lagers I drink. Unlike the off-piss flavor that Corona develops with or without lime, Tecate actually tastes quite good as a citrus drink.
In addition to the great taste, it is worth noting that Tecate was the first beer to introduce the ecologically friendly non-removeable pull-tab on its cans back in 1985, thus reducing lager related pollution and making it much more difficult for the Ronald McDonald House to raise money.
Rating: 3.75 / 5
Labels: bar, beer, beverage, restaurant, tecate
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3 Comments:
Tecate with lime is one of my favorites!
I recently learned from a couple of guys I've been working with (who happen to be Mexican) that no, they don't usually use lime in their Tecate, though they do frequently make a mixed drink with these ingredients.
I forget all of the proportions at the moment, but the drink is pretty much this: salt the rim of a huge glass, pour in Clamato, a little hot sauce and some lime juice, then add a can of Tecate. They call it a "Michelada". They say it's really good, but I've not had the testicular fortitude to try it yet.
The lime is more of a tool to clean the rim of a bottle or glass, I've heard.
And yes... it would take at least triple the cajone fortitude for me to try that drink... hell... it would take me that much to just try the clamato!
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