Me No Gusta! (San Miguel)

Member Name: Zmugzy

Product:	San Miguel
Date:	29/12/08 (172 review reads)
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Advantages: Reminds one of the cheap rounds that you used to be able to buy on holiday in Spain.

Disadvantages: Now pretends to be an upmarket beer.

I drank a bottle of this against my will the other night, in a cramped bar full of student types with funny coloured spectacles. There was no beer on tap, only bottles and this brand was the only one I could make the bar tender understand as I shouted "have you got any Carlsberg?". His failure to hear me on account of the extremely loud music by The Ting Tings blaring out of hidden speakers led me to point desperately to the bottles of San Miguel lined up in the fridge behind him. On receiving one bottle and the £1 change from the fiver I had handed over I began to sip in suppressed anger knowing that I'd been ripped off. The bland gassy taste of San Miguel only made matters worse and failed to soothe me in any way. At least it would be the only bottle of beer I would ever buy in this cramped piss hole.

The Spanish beer industry can be traced back over 100 years and San Miguel was first produced in 1957. Not much progress has been made since then. San Miguel was originally a cheap tacky beer only sold in holiday resorts. Now it tries to pretend that it's an upmarket brand. No wonder more and more people prefer drinking at home. San Miguel is a Spanish lager that tastes like Spanish lager: all fizz and little flavour, almost like drinking carbonated water. The lack of taste means that it should only be served extremely cold. It is always a second rate brew and totally lacks the distinctive personality of a Heineken or a Carlsberg.

San Miguel still accounts for around 80% of the total export of Spanish lager beer and has been available throughout the U.K for many years. But it's the type of lager that should never have been allowed to cross the channel. It should remain in places like Majorca and Tenerife to be consumed by British and German lager louts who don't know and don't care what a good beer is all about.

Summary: A beer that should only be sold in Spanish Holiday resorts