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Article: South-of-the-border brew The extraordinary paradox of Mexican beer.(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2008
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Byline: Associated Press
No doubt there once existed a truly Mexican style of beer, brewed in a tradition that, through centuries of trial and error, fine-tuned indigenous ingredients and local conditions into perfect harmony.
Unfortunately, well never taste it.
Each and every invading force, from the Spanish conquistadors to Maximilian, apparently decided they could do better than what the locals were pouring. And perhaps as a result, weve been left with a grafting of someone elses beer preference onto climate, soil and water conditions that never quite suited it.
European-style pilseners. American-style lagers. All of it made in Mexico none of it really ...