100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #27
Today was the one year anniversary of us moving into our new building at work. Coincidentally, it was also Cinco de Mayo, the traditional American holiday of dressing up in silly hats, smacking pinatas, and switching out our crappy American beer for crappy Mexican beer. As such, we had a party after work with buckets and buckets of crappy Mexican beer. I was hoping for some Negra Modelo, being a fan of that beer, but it was not to be. So seeing an opportunity to grab something new, I pulled out a bottle of Dos Equis Ambar. That’s right, Ambar.
Here’s something the bottle told me that you may not know. “dos equis” means “two Xs”, which is why the bottle has XX on it. It was quite a revelation to me.
Anyway there were no glasses to be had, nor would I have drank it from a glass if there were. Some things are just meant to be consumed right out of the packaging. This beer was truly nothing special. It started out with something that could loosely be called flavor, though not in the bad American beer corn sense of the word, before summarily fading into nothing. Total time from intake to flavor disappearing was about one second. After a few tries, I decided to cram a lime in the bottle.
I hate the lime in the bottle thing. I also hate the orange wedge in the hefeweizen thing. If you’ve got to add fruit to make your beer palatable, you’re doing something wrong. Oh well, I did it anyway. It didn’t really help matters. It went from crappy beer to crappy beer with lime. By the last couple drinks, it was mostly just lime flavored liquid. I think I’ll pass on this beer in the future.