Regia Extra - Cerveceria La Constancia S.A. / BevCo Ltd

Jason

Massachusetts

3.43/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Presentation: 12 oz brown bottle with no freshness date to be found.

Appearance: Pale yellow straw with a perfect clarity, the lace shows some retention and sticks well.

Smell: Very clean aroma with a faint corn and mild alcohol in the nose.

Taste & Mouth Feel: Nice crispness with a light body, mild on the malt with a slight rounded husk flavor. Hops are mild to the point of merely balancing. Clean palate with a wet back ground.

Drinkability & Notes: This brew is not half bad, very fresh tasting with no off flavors or aromas.

Serving type: bottle

12-20-2004 00:32:48 | More by Jason

dertyd

California

3/5  rDev -5.1%

05-05-2013 03:03:35 | More by dertyd

dcbeers

District of Columbia

3.25/5  rDev +2.8%

05-01-2013 00:29:40 | More by dcbeers

bubseymour

Maryland

4/5  rDev +26.6%

01-21-2013 23:31:43 | More by bubseymour

UCLABrewN84

California

3.08/5  rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Pours a clear light yellow with a foamy white head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Tiny dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of grain, vegetables, and some grassy aromas. Taste is much the same with a very grainy aftertaste. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty average beer that is drinkable but very mild in both the aroma and taste.

Serving type: bottle

10-20-2012 05:24:32 | More by UCLABrewN84

t0rin0

California

3.25/5  rDev +2.8%

09-10-2012 01:59:34 | More by t0rin0

harpus

Alabama

2.5/5  rDev -20.9%

07-24-2012 14:38:27 | More by harpus

CEDAMA

California

4.25/5  rDev +34.5%

05-23-2012 03:28:19 | More by CEDAMA

avisong

Virginia

2.5/5  rDev -20.9%

04-24-2012 02:52:54 | More by avisong

tone77

Pennsylvania

3.08/5  rDev -2.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Poured from a brown 32 oz. bottle. Has a pale yellow color with a 1/2 inch head, highly carbonated. Smell is of corn, some sweetness. Taste is crisp, light, some corn and grain. Feels light in the mouth and overall would probably be a refreshing beer to drink in the tropics.

Serving type: bottle

03-22-2012 20:36:40 | More by tone77

ygtbsm94

Virginia

2/5  rDev -36.7%

03-13-2012 07:17:06 | More by ygtbsm94

LJWalker

Alabama

3/5  rDev -5.1%

03-05-2012 17:04:10 | More by LJWalker

AndrewMichael

Virginia

3/5  rDev -5.1%

01-28-2012 23:25:55 | More by AndrewMichael

RonaldTheriot

Louisiana

4.22/5  rDev +33.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Regia Extra has a medium, white head, a decent amount of lacing, a clear, yellow appearance, and some tiny particles floating about. The aroma is of sweet bread and a hop zing. Taste is of lightly-toasted barley malt, sweetness, cracker, grass, and it is balanced with a nice hop bite. Moutfeel is light to medium, and Regia Extra finishes crisp, clean, refreshing, and mostly dry. This is a delicious beer.

RJT

Serving type: bottle

12-11-2011 16:25:09 | More by RonaldTheriot

ElCommodoro

Texas

4.08/5  rDev +29.1%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Poured a very light gold colour that was extremely transparent. It looks thin, if that's possible. It retained a small white head, though. The smell is of grains and water. It SMELLS watery. I haven't tasted it yet. But I can already smell it. It also smells Mexican, if that's possible. It has the typical smell of many Mexican adjunct lagers, even though it is from El Salvador. Not to say that Mexican beers are really THAT much different than their American adjunct counterparts.
The taste is really quite good. It is refreshing. That is a quality that I would consider good in a beer from south of the border, where it is hot most of the time. Reviewing this in winter seems inappropriate, but I can see myself enjoying this during Texas' spring or summer. It doesn't taste too starchy as some Mexican beers do, it doesn't have a weird sour flavour or any off flavours, really. This is SERIOUSLY refreshing. But it still manages to taste a bit like beer and is well balanced. Thumbs up on this. This is something I'd totally go for in a hot place like El Salvador. Of course, if I was somewhere THAT hot, I'd probably prefer an aqua fresca to a beer most of the time. I've tried drinking when it's 100 degrees outside. Not fun. Anyway, if you want a very refreshing light-flavoured beer that still tastes like beer, this is what you want. Enjoy.

Serving type: bottle

11-12-2011 05:35:23 | More by ElCommodoro

rootbeerman

Virginia

2.45/5  rDev -22.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

A: huge quart bottle, pours straw yellow. Head was about a finger
S: cooked corn and rice, not much else
T: mostly one dimensional cooked corn/greens. Very light almost nonexistent bitterness.
M: similar to lightly carbonated water.
O: its better than some Mexican cousins, but still isn't the best.

Serving type: bottle

10-30-2011 02:11:34 | More by rootbeerman

thekevlarkid

Maryland

3.13/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Out of a big ol’ 32 oz bottle this beer was a clear, golden color with a towering three-finger head that was short lived. Spots of lacing but nothing more. The aroma was of pale malt, a little adjunct grains and a hints of hops. The flavors were pretty good for an adjunct beer. I tasted dry biscuity malt, rice and corn adjuncts, something like saltine crackers but almost no hops. The mouthfeel was foamy, the body light and the carbonation medium/high. Nothing special by itself, but special within its category of otherwise awful beers.

Serving type: bottle

10-14-2011 13:27:48 | More by thekevlarkid

smakawhat

Maryland

3.03/5  rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5

Oh no you didn't. Uh yeah sure why not. This is one giant ass bottle here at 32 fl. ounces. Looks like a grenade. Hey call it an intro to the temporary neighborhood and a hello to El Salvador! Onward and poured into a shaker pint glass. Hey it's either this or Bud Chelada...

A very shocking white, I mean just big bright white head is produced with some clumpyness but it dissolves in clumps pretty quickly. Body is a pale straw color looking like a simple beer. Very tiny spotted lacing. Part of the edges look like green hues also. THe drink though manages to keep a good solid white puck throughout. Ok not bad here...

Smell. A very small grain, but not much going on. It was stronger off the pour, but really seems to have disappeared. Clean wet, kind of boring, but nothing offensive.

First taste is at first not much of anything, then it becomes slightly sweet. Sweet grainy (corn?) tasting, almost syrupy. The brew does have some body to it I must admit which kind of shocked me. This isn't a weak wet mess. However, there isn't really much going on here besides it.

Overall this isn't much to write home about, or even much to say. So I'll just stop writing and leave it at that.

Serving type: bottle

06-22-2011 22:53:39 | More by smakawhat

pezfiend

New York

3.25/5  rDev +2.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4

A - Golden wheat color, decent 1/2" head, drops to nice lacing around the sides

S - Sweet toasted bread, some cheap boozy smell

T - Light sweet biscuit flavor, relatively malty, nearly no hops

M - watery

D - Not too bad considering it came in a 32oz bottle for 3 bucks from the bad part of town. Very surprising, good for a session beer shared with a few buddies

Serving type: bottle

11-23-2010 21:38:59 | More by pezfiend

drpimento

Wisconsin

3.38/5  rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.5

Not bad for a world common lager. The brewery rep on the La Constancia tour told us the other night that while this is their budget beer, it is also the product with the largest percentage of malt and hops in it. She also said the brewery uses cane sugar as an adjunct as it's a local product.

This poured with a large, foamy, frothy, fluffy, sudsy, white head that lasts a while, good lace, and lots of small bubble trails. Color is a clear pale yellow with lots of bubble trails. Aroma is fresh beer, some malt and hop. Flavor is like aroma but sweetness comes out more, but is thankfully tempered by some hop. Had this can after it warmed a tad and the body got watery; carbonation is ok. Finish is like flavor with a slight metalic sweetness standing out. Nonetheless, it's one of the better beers of its class. I'll have more, as long as they're cold.

Serving type: can

11-08-2010 03:43:07 | More by drpimento

Rayek

Colorado

3.3/5  rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Poured into a Pokal.

A: Brilliant gold with nice clarity and a steady bead. A dense and foamy white cap slowly falls to a patchwork film. Leaves a decent amount of lace.

S: Musty cut grass dominates the nose. A bit of lemon and a touch of straw round things out.

T: Light, crisp and unassuming. Dry cracker-like malt comes out first. A sharp bitterness comes on that, while mild in the bitterness spectrum, has a bigger kick than this style usually brings. It lends a lemon and pepper bite that gets somewhat metallic as the beer nears its finish. The bitterness lingers for a bit before fading away.

M: The light body is dry and has about the right carbonation tingle to it.

D: There's nothing mind blowing going on here. Just your basic pale lager that doesn't stray from the formula. The beer's lightness makes it an easy drinker. Metallic flavors in the finish provide the only real negatives.

Serving type: bottle

09-28-2010 00:37:53 | More by Rayek

Beerandraiderfan

Nevada

2.88/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Another giant 32oz bottle in a unique shape, dark, great for homebrews. Foams up nice, light yellow to straw. Corn syrup aroma.

A decent profile of more heft than expected, but still tastes like a light adjunct beer. No hops. Another hot weather beer. This is a palate cleanser between ipas for me. Just that clean and smooth feel of a corn or rice beer. Added salt/lime halfway down, got better. Not for drinking outside of July or August.

Serving type: bottle

07-17-2010 18:45:28 | More by Beerandraiderfan

wordemupg

Alberta (Canada)

3.48/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

946ml giant stubby poured into pint glass feb28 2010

A the lightest pale straw yellow ever, I'm willing to bet tap water from some places in El Salvador has more color then this. that being said it dose have a big bone white head that has decent retention and leaves a few partial rings of lace

S corny/grassy hops with some sweet malt on par for the style

T pretty close to the smell but maybe a little sweeter and with just a hint of lemon

M quite thin but with good carbonation

D I'd drink this again, its not great but the price is right and it would make a decent summer slammer

I expected very little from this beer and as it turned out I didn't mind it. I liked the bottle it came in too, you don't see lots of giant stubby bottles in these parts

Serving type: bottle

03-01-2010 05:06:57 | More by wordemupg

augustgarage

California

3.18/5  rDev +0.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Poured from a 32oz stubbie (WTF?) into a pilsner glass.

There is a big bee on the bottle for no apparent reason.

Brilliantly clear pale spring bud liquid with a large half finger of shock white foam which (surprisingly) lasts and lasts. Good lacing, no legs.

Elotes (on a stick!), faint honey (maybe that explains the damn bee on the bottle?), and malt aromatics.

Quite sweet on the palate: malt, band-aids, pupusas, and a very faint herbal note. Adjunct through and through, but not terrible. No bitterness, and no off notes...

Light bodied, active carbonation, smooth, goes well with food...
Rating for style, you could do a lot worse.

Serving type: bottle

02-14-2010 03:57:13 | More by augustgarage

JISurfer

South Carolina

3.38/5  rDev +7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5

I wasn't sure what to expect with this one. I picked it up at the local guadalajara supermarket. Anyways, the appearance on this one was very good. It had one of the most fluffiest heads I've seen. Sure, it died out, but it lasted a good amount of time. Everything else was pretty much average for an adjunct. Actually, it was nicer, because the smell and taste didn't have any offensive characteristics, ie skunk or rotting veggies. Not sure it's worth the $4.50 I paid for it though. Then again, that might be the gringo price.

Serving type: bottle

01-01-2010 00:30:41 | More by JISurfer