Pungent sourdough yeast-wafted, puffy white-headed, clear-bellied, medium-bodied lager maintains fizzy salted-hop bitterness to desolate watered down creamed corn finish. Mild pale malt sweetness belies stiffly astringent sour malt profundity.

Pale complexion, soft white head, and watery texture bring light-bodied appeal to sedate German lager. Sourdough aromatics and honeyed malts counter bitter hop spicing. Aimed at novices looking for German version of Coors Light.

Stale-breaded corn-soured billowy-headed moderation was one of the first imports offered to American market during early ’70s. Burnt coffee dryness and ripe grape undertones disappear too far in front of disturbing grassy-hopped vegetal finish for any maintained dignity.

Clover honey waft prefigures corn cereal buoyancy, creamy caramel malt seduction, and intervening chalky mocha-cocoa souring as tamped down hops fortify buttery finish of fine pale amber. Slight departure from usual grain-based South American beers.

Drab straw-hued dry-bodied Jamaican retains smarmy crystal-malted cereal-sugared grain-caramelized sweetness, but carbolic fizz overwhelms dank doughy must and buttery popcorn resonance.

Heady ‘original’ Budweiser brewed in Czech Republic since 1795 brought to America in ’05, two years after the arrival of more consistent, less malt-y regional rival Budvar (a.k.a. Czechvar). Dry-hopped musk-scented honey roasted lager retains creamed corn assertion, toasted grain austerity, and malt liquor pungency. Informal Scotch piquancy, dank white bread staleness, and alfalfa-grass-horsehide trace whisked away by third sip. Canned version seems more astringently alcoholic and lemony bitterer.

Bitter hop-fizzed opening punctuated by pungent earthen mustiness countering delicate crystal-malted barley-wheat sweetness. More full-bodied and classier than most South American competition, comparing favorably to mainstream stateside lagers.

Blending agave, citrus, and undefined spices, clear-bottled lime-scented malt-lacquered brew gets disturbingly cloy after ill-advised sour-candied fruit tartness goes south. Only better than Zima, if that’s progress. The beer equivalent of a lame wine cooler.

Apparently Bacardi (the rum co.) brought this Cuban recipe (pronounced ah-tway) to America for the masses. Orange-yellow hue, caramel-malt aroma, and creamy up-front sweetness settle into syrupy 5.5% alcohol fueled dud. Much too processed for serious consumption, but in line with sweet barley-based Caribbean’s such as Red Stripe and Carib Pilsner.

Translucent ivory-yellowed ‘premium pilsner’ brings tart lemon spritz, unleavened bread musk, and grassy hop pitch to spotty dry maize finish redolent of Corona with lime slice. Just a hair less inspired than Kaiser’s mediocre A Marca Bavaria.

Ephemeral bomber-bottled Canadian lager stays smooth and watery beneath its hop-topped barley-roasted essence. A hint of agave puts it South of the Border until sticky caramel malts overtake pallid finish.

In a sea of mass produced Molson beer and ale styles, this bland Seltzer-fizzed pale lager is truly indistinguishable. Murky hop musk, toned down grain pungency and scant perfumed citrus slurp lead to soapy corn sugar finish (with honeyed biscuit bottom). Gets metallic as bottle drains.