Tecate Beer now brewed in Holland???

[California]

I thought it was just because I left a pack of Tecate out without refrigeration that it tasted different. And foamed like crazy when I opened the can. Maybe with Covid disruptions the supply chain had long delays.

Then I looked on the carton bought today. It's different from the cut-down carton I have in the refrigerator to hold beer cans, that one proudly says Hecho En Mexico. This new one in micro type says Made In Holland! WTH? Authentic Mexican beer now comes from a plant in Amsterdam?

Online research today says the Tecate plant just across the border from San Diego is part of a big beer producer that employs 20,000 people but Mexico shut down the whole beer industry to slow Coronavirus. And Heineken, who bought that corporation 10 years ago is now shipping beer from Europe to fulfill delivery contracts in the US.

No wonder this Tecate tastes different, and foams. Its apparently one of Heineken's European beers in Tecate cans.

This is significant to me because it is giving me a minor next-morning hangover. Due to kidney stones in the past I have limited kidney function. Minding diet, I never exceed what I can digest comfortably and rarely notice anything. Stop at one glass of red wine etc. Tecate (from Mexico) has been the only beer that never caused a hangover. I've tried many brands, some taste better, but all caused a morning-after minor headache. Now Tecate does too. Bah!

Anybody else notice this?

 

[tallyho8]

I haven't tasted Tecate in many years. My favorite Mexican beer is Dos Equis in the green bottle with bottled Modelo, not canned, way down in 2nd place.

Now I've got to rush out and buy more Dos Equis to check the label to make sure it is still brewed in Mexico.

 

[California]

Now I've got to rush out and buy more Dos Equis to check the label to make sure it is still brewed in Mexico.

I like Dos Equis, and I used to buy Corona. But sorry, Dos Equis is another Heineken brand. Wikipedia: Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Brewery - Wikipedia

This August news said production for all brands was resuming. I can't find anything newer. On International Beer Day, supplies are nearly back to normal in Mexico

I hope my Tecate today isn't from before August!

 

[oosik]

I've tried Dos Equis - it's OK. Besides what am I going to drink when I eat out at the local Mexican restaurant. My preference - Coors.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Tecate beer is one of my preferred beers. At least it used to be. In Oklahoma has not been available in most of the Mexican restaurants I eat at. I did get some at the store the other day. Your right about the taste, or lack of.


As a side note my understanding is that many of the “Mexican” beers we drink in the USA are European recipes brought to Mexico decades ago and produced.

 

[kenmbz]

Coors is brewed high-gravity, so not like beer.
I stick with local breweries and bottles or from their keg.
Bud/Coors/Miller all give me headaches from the chemicals used to brew them.
Too many good American beers that I don't have to drink the mediocre ones.

"The principle behind high-gravity brewing is simple. You create a wort that has an original gravity significantly higher than the target and dilute it with water before packaging. Professional brewers are famous (or infamous) for the practice, and extract brewers dilute concentrated worts all the time."

Why Coors got sued for saying it was made with Colorado water, when it was mostly local tapwater...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I used to wonder why the beer and other alcoholic drinks that came from Mexico were so good; a little research reveals that all of the original brewers and distillers came from Europe; Germany mostly.

 

[California]

And here I am foggy-headed this morning after a single Tecate late last night. This stuff in Tecate cans from Amsterdam is NOT Tecate. :grumpy:

 

[tallyho8]

Around 1970 I tasted my first German beer, Lowenbrau, and it immediately became my favorite but because of its high cost, being imported, just one I got on rare occasions. Then in 1975 Miller Beer bought the North American rights to Lowenbrau and started brewing it in Texas, Different recipe, different taste, horrible. Over the years different companies gained the rights and it was brewed in Canada and elsewhere. Never the same.

That was the best tasting and best selling German beer and this was the forerunner of name brand products being sold to different countries where they could make it cheaper and live off the reputation of its name being a quality product although now it is inferior to the old product. Think of quality names live Frigidaire, Magnavox, RCA, etc. that were so good until their names were sold out to Asian manufacturers.

 

[California]

... name brand products being sold to different countries where they could make it cheaper and live off the reputation of its name being a quality product although now it is inferior to the old product.

So true. I bought a baby 4" Crescent Wrench at Tractor Supply some months ago. Real Crescent forged on it. Not chrome, just matte black. Recently I went to use it and the thumbwheel is stuck. Worse, the screw that is the axle for the thumbwheel, is now just a pressed-in pin, no way to get it out. Useless junk from what was a top tier brand.