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Desperados 33cl

Despite the packaging, Desperados is not Mexican, but made in the French Alsace. This is a cerveza-style lager, fortified with tequila and a sweet 'lime cordial' flavouring that overpowers anything distinctive about the base beer, which creates in short a very nice lager-and-lime based drink. Taken chilled, it's very pleasant, refreshing, and all-too-drinkable. Review: Smells very much like Sprite immediately after it is poured and then settles down into what is perhaps best described as a slightly grassy, slightly spicy Sprite and tequila cocktail aroma. (I'm picking tequila as the booze because it's supposed to be in the beer, but really the aroma is mostly lemon-lime soda and almost anything alcoholic.) The flavour is sweet and a little lime-ish, while the body is an odd mix of light, sweet lager, lime cordial and fresh lime, grassy notes and a very faint boozy edge. The finish is lingering sugar and lime with perhaps a hint of spice.

Strength: 5.90% ABV
Only £1.45