Quilmes - Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes / Grupo Bemberg

cameraman

Kentucky

1/5  rDev -62.4%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

A pale yellow color, a slight white head forms and disappears quickly; really, really, really quickly. No real aroma, slight scents of hoppiness but, very faint. The taste is nada, zilch, a goose egg, totally non-existant taste. The feel is thinner than water, enough said. This beer is NOT a very drinkable beer, period.

Serving type: bottle

10-12-2006 02:44:14 | More by cameraman

Tebuken

Argentina

1/5  rDev -62.4%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

I think this beverage doesn´t reach the minimum profile to be declared as a beer.It could be defined as something similar to a beer but almost undrinkable.
I really don´t know how industries handle ingredients to get such a horrible thing to drink.
The only way to drink it is pressing your nose while drinking and it must be almost frozen so you can not get its real flavor.

Serving type: bottle

01-30-2012 04:14:56 | More by Tebuken

xare

Ohio

1.25/5  rDev -53%
look: 3 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

Pours as clear straw-yellow color with a HUGE foamy white head. Almost appears like a hefeweizen, but it's not one. I'm confused.

Smells a bit sour and has a grain alcohol aroma and nothing else. At least it isn't totally off-putting.

I'm rather surprised that this tastes wheaty - I would have thought there was no wheat in this beer and there are no other flavors in this brew besides alcohol. Very weak flavor. Just has that wheat flavor that I can't make any sense out of.

Mouthfeel is clear and smooth, just like water. That isn't a good thing with this brew. There's just a sour aftertaste. That's all you get, a sour aftertaste and no flavor. At least it isn't something like a cement mixer shot.

Drinkability is utterly worthless. I had absolutely no desire whatsoever to finish this beer. No reason to drink this. I'm not sure if I can think of another beer I'd drink less than this - I would even drink Michelob Ultra before this, or just plain water.

Serving type: bottle

04-20-2008 00:13:33 | More by xare

Overlord

California

1.33/5  rDev -50%
look: 1 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Boldly proclaims that it is "Argentina's favorite beer." I feel sorry for those gauchos.

Pours a shockingly pale yellow. In low light, for a moment I thought there was a screw-up and this was carbonated water. No such luck. It's simply the palest beer I've ever seen. No smell, but there is a gigantic white foam head. Tastes like rotten vegetables and sweet corn meal. Maybe some alpaca urine? Hard to tell.

Watery and awful. Drain pour.

Serving type: bottle

09-15-2008 07:59:45 | More by Overlord

thekanna

Maryland

1.4/5  rDev -47.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5

A: Pale yellow with a large head that dissipates very quickly.

S: Some generic malts, but relatively undetectable.

T: Starts down decently fine with adjunct malts, but this devolves into an astringency reminiscent of turpentine. Disgusting.

M: Thin body with medium carbonation.

D: The aftertaste of this beer is just horrible. I struggled trying to finish just one bottle.

Serving type: bottle

05-30-2010 05:24:13 | More by thekanna

tesguino

Mexico

1.48/5  rDev -44.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5

Sorry for the belived most handsome people´s inthe word they have the worst beer sell in mexico, its remarked grains flavor made worst, its patagonian hops not help its flavor, but in general is good only one or two no more, they give a several head pain and cruda

Serving type: bottle

10-11-2005 20:41:01 | More by tesguino

putnam

Michigan

1.53/5  rDev -42.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

My bottle claimed only 4.9% ABV. Not 6.5%. And it was every bit of about 2%.
It featured a standard, factory-grade, anemic, gray-colored fizz on top. It went away quickly. The aromas told of accelerated fermentation : grain; sugar; and alcohol. Bland and dry, it served up impressions of rice pancake and mineral water. Very Bud Light-like in it's candied, thin flavor profile. Stale, freeze-dried pea flavors lurked on the finish. This was the most tasteless imported beer I've ever consumed -- utterly meaningless.

Serving type: bottle

09-17-2004 01:29:28 | More by putnam

stcules

Italy

1.6/5  rDev -39.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 2

My bottle claims 4.9 ABV, not 6.5

Clear light yellow. Not much head, vanishing.
Smell: malt, corn, grainy.And some, very little, hop in the back.
Taste: where?
Well, grainy, useless indudtrial macro lager. Quite carbonation.
Body and aftertaste: nothing to talk about.
Absolutely tasteless, anonimous, and completely useless.

Serving type: bottle

06-19-2005 14:34:47 | More by stcules

ChainGangGuy

Georgia

1.6/5  rDev -39.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5

Appearance: Pours a clear, pale yellow body with a few stray bubbles, but that's about it.

Smell: Sad, vapid nose with just a light touch of pale malt and floral hops.

Taste: Light pale malts with only the faintest sweetness. Meager floral hint with an almost non-existent bitterness. The rest is water, folks.

Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Drinkability: Shamefully watery. Great for rinsing out your glass for the next beer - hopefully one with some actual flavor and character.

Serving type: bottle

09-20-2008 00:34:40 | More by ChainGangGuy

nickhiller

Texas

1.65/5  rDev -38%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5

A: golden showers, looks like every macro lager ever made--watery, no head or lacing, nothing to distinguish it.

S: none, the absence of. Same as above.

T: honey, a little bit sour, mostly water.

M: crisp and lagery, at least it feels like beer.

D: intensely boring. I don't think I could pick this out of a lineup of national beers of South American countries, or the national beers of North America for that matter.

Serving type: bottle

10-11-2010 04:08:18 | More by nickhiller

AlexLMS

Portugal

1.68/5  rDev -36.8%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Appearance: very clear with a light gold color. The head is white, very low and it fades very quickly.
Aroma: unappealing corn smell.
Taste: adjuncty and chaffy. No hops.
Mouthfeel: dry, strong carbonation, low alcoholic strength and light body.
Finish: short and very slightly bitter.

Overall: made for the masses. Too watery and boring to justify a second try.

Serving type: bottle

06-22-2007 08:47:16 | More by AlexLMS

CrazyDavros

Australia

1.68/5  rDev -36.8%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Pours yellow with a small head that quickly fades to nothing.
Nose shows hay, sweet straw, faint funky notes and sweet corn.
Similar flavours: hay, cardboard, cooked vegetables. Pretty bad stuff, very cloying, no bitterness.
Could use lots more carbonation.

Serving type: bottle

01-05-2012 08:40:50 | More by CrazyDavros

dansmcd

Australia

1.7/5  rDev -36.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 2

A - Very light yellow amber colour, crystal clear, thin white head leaving the faintest lace rings.

S - Sweet corn, hay, metal.

T - The faintest corn flavour overpowered by water.

M - Thin and watery, light to moderate carbonation. Terrible.

O - Boring, basic, watery adjunct lager. Lacking in everything.

Serving type: bottle

10-18-2011 23:56:52 | More by dansmcd

ThreeWiseMen

California

1.73/5  rDev -35%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

Appearance: Poured a nice clear yellow. No blood, could pass for urine.

Smell: Sweet alcohol, had to swirl to get the aroma to hit my nose, Like my grandmother on a saturday evening.

Taste: Reminds me of yellow water I had in mexico city. No suprise that this beer came from south of the Rio Grande.

Mouthfeel: Slight carbonation, poor after taste, like waking up with morning breath.

Drinkability: Bad. I'd sell this to minors to teach them that underage drinking is wrong.

Serving type: bottle

05-10-2008 23:33:45 | More by ThreeWiseMen

illidurit

California

1.73/5  rDev -35%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

Poured into a pint glass. Same old pale lager straw color with a fizzy white head. No lacing. Aroma is corn syrupy sweet with little grain. Corn syrup flavored mineral water with a touch of alcohol? Blech. This is almost cheap malt liquor bad. No coincidence that the name is almost 'Kill me.'

Serving type: bottle

12-01-2008 03:49:40 | More by illidurit

jdhilt

New Hampshire

1.75/5  rDev -34.2%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Pours with a three finger head that fades quickly leaving no lace. Chrystal clear light amber color. Very light carbonation and light bodied. Hoppy nose. Starts slightly hoppy with a corn husk flavor, aftertaste has a slight bitterness. Another one just for the country. 12 oz bottle part of mixed 6-pak for $7.99 from Friar Tuck's Peoria, Il.

Serving type: bottle

09-16-2006 22:19:14 | More by jdhilt

RievyRW

Wisconsin

1.78/5  rDev -33.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Source: 12 oz. bottle poured into a standard pint glass.

Appearance: Looked likes the standard straw'ish gold of mass produced light beer

Smell: Maybe a little malt, but don't expect much

Taste: Just drink bubbly yellow water and you get the idea

Drinkability: If you can drink water, you can drink this beer.

Serving type: bottle

03-14-2009 23:46:15 | More by RievyRW

laituegonflable

Australia

1.8/5  rDev -32.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a pale straw colour with a small amount of white bubbly head when poured, disappears very quickly indeed, completely flat now with slow bead. Virtually no lacing. Meh, indeed.

Smells very lagery, with a reasonable malt character and a slight odour of fresh cut grass. All quite slight and simple. Again, meh.

A bit of sticky malt on the front palate, then trails off into a sour, watery finish, like hops were soaked but not long enough in the water to impart any flavour. Is not really interesting at all, rather monotonous palate. There is a slight finish, but it isn't very pleasant or even noticeable unless you're really looking for it. Could use more flavour, and could benefit from pouring some actual beer into the bottle, because I can't really find any.

Mouthfeel is painfully thin. Drinkable? Yeah, well water's drinkable. Confuckulations.

Serving type: bottle

04-29-2009 04:10:11 | More by laituegonflable

LittleDon

Texas

1.83/5  rDev -31.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5

Very pale straw colored with lots of large carbonation bubbles. Crystal clear, white head that produces a fair amount of lace. Excellent head retention. Grainy/earth aroma with some detectable sweetness. I smell mortar (the stuff used for concrete). Very bland over the entire palate with the exception of some bitterness in the back end. If any flavors predominate it would be cereal with a touch of aluminum. Artificial sweetener sensation after the finish. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Light body.

Serving type: bottle

01-13-2011 21:55:49 | More by LittleDon

Brent

Kentucky

1.85/5  rDev -30.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1

I thought Ultra was the most flavorless beer I'd run across. Here, it has met its match. Aroma - well, if water has an aroma, this smelled about the same. As for flavor - no malt, no hops - about all I got was some vague olive-juice sourness. I had no idea that a beer could have some an utter absence of flavor. If this is Argentina's favorite beer, heaven help me if I ever have to go there.

Serving type: bottle

02-11-2004 03:59:50 | More by Brent

budsboy

Ohio

1.85/5  rDev -30.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

Pale, little chunks of whatnot floating around in there. Thin white head that fades.

Has a bit of a detergent-like smell behind a sweet malt and adjunct aroma.

A wee better flavor than I expected. A slight lemony taste is in there. That's about all that is interested about it. Otherwise, it's a typical American macro lager ... nearly flavorless with no real hop flavors detectable.

Thin and watery.

Avoid. I will.

Serving type: bottle

03-21-2008 23:13:07 | More by budsboy

warnerry

Michigan

1.85/5  rDev -30.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

A - Pours VERY light, halfway between straw and clear (Cristal, indeed) with one finger of quickly fading white head.

S - Smells somewhat grainy, kind of like white bread, but also unusually sweet. No hops to speak of.

T - Quite sweet up front, in a very distracting way. Then some bread malts come in, but not much after that.

M - Medium with a weird syrupy feel. Definitely not what I expected from a lager.

O - Even for an adjunct lager, this is pretty poor. The sweetness just feels artificial and distracting. None of the other flavor components can overcome this flaw.

Serving type: bottle

11-21-2011 00:05:52 | More by warnerry

ElGordo

Oregon

1.88/5  rDev -29.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

My girlfriend allowed me the honor of sampling her bottle of this at the Brickskellar. Poured a pale golden color with a thin, foamy head that was gone in a few seconds. Big bubbles, I think this one had been sitting in their cooler for a few months. About the only thing it had going for it was its lack of skunk, though. Very light, thin body, with almost absolutely no flavor. There's just not much to this one. Maybe if I were in Argentina and needed a thirst quencher I'd drink it, but there's absolutely no reason to have one here.

Serving type: bottle

11-04-2003 04:59:59 | More by ElGordo

n0rc41

California

1.9/5  rDev -28.6%
look: 1 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

props to "womencantsail" on the review I am again going to steal some of his review being we both obviously got the same beer case (congrats brother on the case of shitty beer lol I am enjoying it myself)


Another "Beer of the World" tastings from the 12 packs my girl got me from world market

A: out of a brown bottle, didnt see much of the beer, came out yellow though if that helps.

S: While the primary aroma is grain and corn sweetness, there actually is a bit of a spicy hop component to this. ( I agree but the smell is still of some cheap cheap bud light tecate like my last ed hardy beer, they smelled alot the same)

T: Like the aroma, the taste is actually not bad (especially considering what it could have been). A surprising amount of spice and hop character to go with the sweetness.( I agree it has more taste but I dont see the spices in it. I see more cheap beer "D" its plain horrible still.)

M: The beer is still light and fizzy, of course. (ditto)

D: Really not a bad little lager. I'd much rather drink this than Bud or Coors or Miller. (I agree)

Serving type: bottle(yup)

beer overall in my opinion is still a "D" if not "F+" either way STAY AWAY!

Serving type: bottle

12-25-2009 10:48:51 | More by n0rc41

Dogbrick

Ohio

1.95/5  rDev -26.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

You always walk a fine line when buying a beer just because it is from a new country. I knew this wouldn’t be good, but darn it I wanted to try an Argentinian beer! I am sure I am not the only one. Pours a clear pale gold color with a thin white head that lasted pretty long. Thin lacing. The aroma is lightly hopped. Thin-bodied and adjunct-ridden with a weak hops and malt flavor struggling to be noticed. The finish is clean but nearly flavorless. I have definitely had worse but this beer really serves no purpose other than being from Argentina.

Serving type: bottle

07-02-2004 16:19:29 | More by Dogbrick