Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma’s Carta Blanca
23. Jan, 2010 
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In today’s post I am reviewing Carta Blanca, a Mexican import. Carta Blanca is a Mexican style lager that most of you have probably overlooked on on liqour store shelves because you consider Corona to be a good beer and always pick it up. Well I hate to break it to you, but Corona isn’t. It is time you expanded yourself beyond the typical beers you buy and experience more of what Mexico has to offer.
About Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma
Cerverceria Cuauhtemoc is the Anheuser-Busch of Mexico. This brewery was founded in 1890 and produces 3.09 Gigalitres of beer a year in basically all of the Mexican imports you are accompanied to seeing on our liqour store shelves and when you go on spring break in Cancun.
About Cart Blanca
Carta Blanca is the Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma’s original premium beer. Carta Blanca is a tradtional Mexican style lager that contains 4.02 ABV.
My Review
Carta Blanca reminded me alot of traditional American style lagers when I poured it into my glass. It has a light golden color and really does resemble your MGDs and Budweisers. With that said however it isn’t an American lager, and its nose and taste bring a distinct difference.
After pouring the beer you will notice that the little amount of head the you get disappears pretty quickly, and doesn’t come back. But you can’t judge a beer by it’s head. On the nose you get a good sweet smell that reminded me of Chardonnay. It smelled of white flowers, pears, and maybe even a little green grape.
The taste of the beer totally backed up those flavors. The flower component while still present drifted away, but the pear/grape flavor gave the smooth lager and hint of sweetness that was quite pleasant. The beer was crisp and refreshing and would definitely be a great change of pace for anyone that is looking to drink a domestic lager, but wants a little something extra.
Enjoy this beer by the pool and put on a Hawaiian shirt. Put the party lights up on the deck, invites some friends over and show them that you aren’t the just the pretentious ass that buys the standard Corona and Heineken imports. Show them that you are a beer guy.
Have you had Carta Blanca? What did you think of it? Let me know in the comments below, and if you enjoyed this post be sure to subscribe so you get all of our article sent directly to you by email.
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Interesting… As a full time Corona hater, I will definitely give this a shot.
“Only two kinds of guys wear Hawaiian shirts. Big fat party animals and gay guys. Adam doesn’t look like a big fat party animal to me!”
Oh Graeme, now that was a good comment. I enjoyed it was well. Could i taste the “pear/grape” flavor, no. But I did taste good.
I drank an MGD from the mixed pack the other day and it tasted more like Carta Blanca than I would have imagined.
From the blackberry: point graeme!!!
I actually enjoy the mexican imports, sans corona, dos equis, tecate, and my personal fav… sol are great choices.
Don’t give graeme too much credit. That is a Simpson’s quote.
I love Dos Equis Amber, by far my favorite Mexican beer. But it is part of a different category.
@Robert
Were you drunk when you typed that?
@Adam: Thats why i put it in quotes dummy.
@Graeme
I was just making sure you didn’t get any credit. I want everyone to know that you are in no way clever or funny.
I have to try this one for sure. I love Tecate and if this is anything like it I will love it. thanks for the review and keep it up, alot more out there.
Jay,
Thanks for your continued support. And I plan and drinking as many of them out there as possible.
Adam
At 2pm I was not drunk. At 11pm however, now thats a different story. I had just got up from a nap and typed that so I was still kind of groggy. Now if the site admin’s allowed some kind of editing to posts…
Ask and you shall receive.
Adam/Ryan, could you please allow users to edit the posts they make or at least allow us to delete them if we find a error with our grammar. Also, maybe allow a upload so I can also have my ugly mug on this site.
Bam! soon as I post on it, there it is. Nice work.
Robert,
I have added the edit comment plugin to the site, you have 15 minutes after you make a comment to edit it.
As for an image. Go to http://www.gravatar.com and you will be able to upload an image so that whenever you post a comment on any website and enter in your email address your image will appear.
Adam
This is one that I am going to have to try. I am a big fan of Mexican beers (I don’t consider Corona a real mexican beer, I think mexicans make it specifically to ship to the US) and I have enjoyed almost every one I’ve tried so it looks like this one will be next.