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Article: Vacation in a Bottle
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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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, we'll 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, we've been left with a
grafting of someone else's beer preference onto climate, soil and
water conditions that never quite suited it.
European-style pilseners. American-style lagers. All of it made