For many readers of this portal is something very distant and exotic. The most amazing thing about this whole story is that people who have personally tried it can share exactly the same opinion. And many of them did it repeatedly.
Naturally, I am talking about Corona beer. It's just that not all fans of the foamy drink know that hot sunny Mexico is its homeland.
The popularity of Corona beer has skyrocketed in recent years. And the point here is not only the high quality and great taste of this Mexican alcohol. A huge merit in the popularization of the Corona brand belongs to the Hollywood epic Fast and the Furious, in the films of which the main character, played by Vin Diesel, prefers this particular beer.
Moreover, one of Vin Diesel's phrases deserves to become the main slogan of this Mexican brand. "Beer can be anything, but it must be Corona."
Country of origin - Mexico.
The manufacturer is Grupo Modelo.
Existing container:
Korona Extra is a classic pale American lager or bottom-fermented beer with a strength of 4.5 degrees and an initial wort gravity of 11.3%. In addition to its homeland, the low-alcohol drink is wildly popular in the United States. Canada and many European countries are not too far behind in this sense.
In the case of Corona beer, we cannot speak of a classic recipe. The composition of the foamy drink includes the following ingredients: pure water, barley malt, hops, corn and ascorbic acid. Despite the fact that all brewing companies know about the existence of such a recipe, no one has managed to reproduce Corona Extra beer.
The lager has a pale golden color. When poured into a glass or mug, a luxurious foam cap appears, which settles rather quickly. Cereal, corn, herbal and biscuit nuances are felt in the aroma. Beer has an incredibly fresh, soft, light and refreshing taste. In it, against the background of hop bitterness, everyone can distinguish notes of grain, malt and corn. The taste is quickly replaced by the original sweetish aftertaste.
There is a rather interesting ritual of serving Corona beer. Many associate it with the regional characteristics of alcohol consumption in its historical homeland. The fact is that Corona Extra is usually served chilled with sliced \u200b\u200blemon or lime slices. This unexpected appetizer gives this pale Mexican lager even more spice.
The Corona brewing brand does not boast a long history. However, people tend to look for an element of mystery and rich historical roots in every successful project. Apparently, therefore, fans of Corona beer usually begin their story from 1544, when the foot of the Spanish conquistador Alonso de Harer set foot on the territory of modern Mexico. Among other glorious and not so "feats", he is credited with the recipe for making the first local beer from barley malt roasted in the hot sun.
Now it is difficult to argue on the topic of the truth of such a statement, so I propose to focus on the facts. In 1925 Grupo Modelo founded a large brewery. It was within its walls that beer was created, which is currently sold under the Corona brand.
Thanks to the unequivocal commitment to the best world brewing traditions, the foamy drink produced at this enterprise quickly won the hearts of the Mexicans and stepped far beyond its hot homeland. In Mexico itself, the popularity of Corona beer can be compared, perhaps with fame.
Grupo Modelo pays great attention to product quality control. In each country where Corona Extra is sold, there is an exclusive distributor. In Russia, this role has been performed by SUN InBev since 2014.
The label of Corona beer depicts the mythical creature griffin. There is a fictional but curious legend about this. When the king of beasts, the lion, tasted this beer, he was inspired by its unusual refreshing taste. Because of this, he actually grew eagle wings and turned into a griffin. Moreover, for the opportunity to always drink this foamy drink, he refused the title of the king of animals and forever settled on the label of a beer bottle.
Corona is known and loved in many parts of the world, but it is most popular in the United States. Thousands of consignments of this barley drink worth more than $2 billion are exported there from a neighboring country every year.
A low-alcohol product (its strength is not more than 4.5%) is produced by bottom fermentation. In addition to hops, barley malt, yeast and water, the light yellow (golden) lager contains products such as corn and tapioca, a starchy cereal obtained from the roots of the cassava plant.
Corona beer has a thick, but quickly settling head. It has a grassy-grainy aroma and a light, fresh taste with hints of corn and sponge cake. A slight bitterness when consumed quickly gives way to a sweet aftertaste.
The drink is available in transparent bottles of 0.355 liters. There is no paper label on the container. It is replaced by a pattern that is applied to the glass. It depicts a crown, on the sides of which there are 2 griffins.
According to legend, the king of beasts, the lion, wanted to taste the fragrant liquid. Its refreshing taste so impressed the beast that it turned into a mythical creature with wings. In order to continue to enjoy the marvelous lager, the griffin took off his headdress and gave it to beer, proclaiming him the king of all drinks.
Since 2012, Corona beer has also been produced in tin cans volume 0.355 l.
The history of the popular drink began in 1925 in Mexico City. Here, at the Cerveceria Modelo plant, the first batch of Corona Extra was brewed. A few years later, the brewery produced more than 8 million bottles a year. Quickly taking a leading position in the market of their country, the breeders began to export the golden liquid to the United States.
Grupo Modelo expanded by buying up and building other factories in the state and in the 80s began to conquer the world market. In 1997, the foamy drink became the best-selling foreign beer in the United States of America. In the 21st century, Corona Mexico exports its trade product to 150 countries of the world, including countries such as Germany and Belgium, which produce many of their own intoxicating liquids.
In 2012, the Grupo Modelo concern became part of the Belgian corporation Anheuser-Bush InBev. And in early 2018, construction began on a brewery in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, which should become the second largest in the world. It is planned to start production in 2019. The volume of produced bottles of intoxicating drink will be 9 million per day.
Mexican pale beer has so many admirers for its refreshing taste. It can quickly quench your thirst on the hottest day. The low alcohol content is also a plus. Even after drinking a few bottles of lager, a person will not get drunk and will feel good.
In the production of Koron, barley is used, burned in a natural way: under the bright rays of the scorching sun. This is how beer has been made in this country since the 16th century. It is believed that Spanish conquistadors taught the Mexicans to make a drink in this way. To improve the taste of barley, natural lupine flavor is added to it.
But otherwise, the beer Korona Extra manufacturer carefully guards the secret recipe of its main product and does not sell a license for it to anyone. The concern owns large plantations where barley is grown for lager, and itself processes it into malt. The company even produces its own packaging for Corona. Quartz sand for glass bottles is supplied from 4 quarries, and cardboard boxes for packaging finished products are made at factories owned by Grupo Modelo.
There are several types of golden Mexican lager. The most popular is the classic Extra with a strength of 4.5% alcohol. It is characterized by caramel-herbal notes and a sweet aftertaste.
In 1989, the Grupo Modelo product Corona Light entered the market. This beer contains only 3.7% alcohol and 99 calories. The drink has a pleasant aroma of meadow herbs and soft, sweet taste with mustard.
In 2011, the concern launched an advertising campaign "Find your beach", the purpose of which was to increase sales of its products in tourist areas. Heat-resistant images of the famous beaches of the world were applied to the traditional bottle. Bright labels evoked the desire to go on a trip or evoked memories of a recent vacation. The company was a success, and people were happy to buy Mexican lager.
Low-alcohol golden liquid in a transparent bottle can now be bought in Russia. Here it is considered a beer drink because of its additional ingredients: corn and tapioca. To avoid fakes of its products, Grupo Modelo engages beer sales and warranty service companies for each country. In Russia, the distributor is SUN InBev.
Korona Extra can be recognized by the above-described label with griffins. Fans of light drinks should choose Lager Light. The liquid is always poured into containers with a volume of 0.355 liters.
Having purchased a drink, the unit price of which ranges from 70 to 85 rubles, you need to know how to drink it correctly.
Before drinking, the beer should be well cooled by placing it briefly in freezer or ice pack. According to a tradition dating back to 1981, Mexican lager is drunk with a lime wedge added to it. Do it like this:
As an appetizer, Corona is suitable not only for Mexican dishes, but also barbecue, baked fish, and seafood.
A light, refreshing lager that can be added to other drinks to enjoy the combination of ingredients. For example, in the homeland of the product, a Chelada mixture is made. Half lime juice, salt and ice are added to 250 ml of beer. And if this composition includes a little hot red pepper, it is called Michelada.
For a stronger Bloody Joe, you will need to mix 100 ml of Corona with 50 ml of vodka and 50 ml of tomato juice, adding a little salt to them.
Did you know that Corona is a beer from Mexico? And trust me, this is no ordinary beer. When it comes to Mexican drinks, we immediately think of tequila. But in Mexico they love not only tequila, they also love beer and know a lot about it.
Look at the bottle. Perfectly transparent, with a pattern applied directly to the glass, it reveals a sunny golden drink to the eye. There is a crown in the center of the label, and griffins on the sides. This is the lion, the king of animals, who gave his crown for the opportunity to enjoy a wonderful drink. And the beer literally inspired him, turning him into a griffin. And the crown went to beer.
Beer crown extra
In Mexico, 3 concerns and 12 breweries are engaged in the manufacture of beer; they produce a number of original varieties of foamy drink. But "Crown" is the most famous of them. It is considered the beer of Mexican workers, as it perfectly quenches thirst and contains a very small percentage of alcohol. Beer "Korona" ranks tenth in the world in terms of popularity, and this is a lot. In the USA, the technology of its production began to be used for brewing other varieties of "Mexican" beer, as it turned out to be more cost-effective than using traditional technologies.
Mexican beer Corona
Mexican beer is usually brewed with tapioca. Tapioca is a cereal made from the starch found in cassava or cassava roots. Cassava occupies the same place in the food culture of South and partly North America that we have potatoes. This shrub plant reaches a height of 3-5 meters. Accordingly, its roots are powerful, from 2 to 7 centimeters in diameter. Cassava roots contain a small amount of fat and protein, but their starch content reaches 70 percent. This starch is used to make cereals.
Corn is still often used to make beer, but the technology for making the drink is such that the taste of corn in finished product is not felt. But Mexican brewers flavor roasted barley grains with lupins.
The technology of brewing beer has been known in Mexico since the sixteenth century. In 1544, Alonso de Harera, a Spanish conquistador, invented a way to brew a drink made from barley, which was first roasted in the sun.
Mexican beer is special, it is distinguished by its original taste and color. And the Groupo Modelo company, which has been producing beer in Mexico City since 1925, has created and produces an excellent Corona Extra, which firmly holds a third of the Mexican beer market. And in the United States, this beer is the best-selling imported beer. The company produces 13 varieties of excellent beer, including Modelo Special, Victoria, Pacifico and the dark Negra Modelo.
Korona beer production
The Groupo Modelo company swung very broadly. She grows the main part of the barley for her beer, processes the malt herself, produces her own glass bottles from specially selected quartz sand, which is supplied to her by 4 quarries. Even the cardboard boxes in which it is packaged finished products are manufactured in factories owned by the company.
Thanks to the company's policy, its attention to detail, care for consumers, "Corona Extra" is sold in 150 countries and the sales volume reaches 2 billion liters per year. Wherever this beer is sold, it is sold in 355 ml bottles, there is no other packaging. In all the years that this popular drink has been produced, the company has never licensed its production to anyone else.
Interestingly, in the Spanish market, the beer is called "Coronita", since there is already a wine with the name "Corona" in the country.
Beer is low-calorie and low-alcohol. It is supposed to drink only from a bottle. This light, thirst-quenching light drink is loved by both men and women. Beer "Korona Extra" can be served as an aperitif. In addition, it goes well with Asian dishes, and, of course, Mexican cuisine, as well as seafood.
Mexican cuisine is a combination of traditional Indian cuisine and Spanish spices. Mexican sauces, corn tortillas and meat cooked in leaves, wonderful fish will please the real gourmet. But Mexican food burns in the mouth. And here a cool refreshing foamy drink will come to the rescue.
"Korona Extra" is desirable to drink strongly chilled. Connoisseurs recommend placing the bottles in a container with ice for the whole night so that the ice completely covers each bottle. The chilled bottle is supposed to be opened and immediately sprinkled on the neck. sea salt. It is advised to squeeze the juice from the lime into the bottle and add 1 slice inside. It is believed that eating beer is good with the same lime, but flavored with spicy sauce.
Chilled corona beer
However, lime can play a trick on beer lovers, especially if you drink it on the beach. Lime juice contains a substance that causes brown spots on the skin when exposed to the sun. This substance is called psoralen. The spots are very stable on the skin, they may not last as long as 2 months. Often people who have received such "chemical burns" take them for a serious illness, although in fact it is beer dermatitis. It often affects bartenders serving beer with lime in open areas.
Beer is a common and very democratic drink, suitable for friendly parties, family dinners, meetings in an informal setting.
There are many varieties of this popular foamy drink.
In order to understand whether or not a certain variety is liked, one must be able to taste it. Don't jump to conclusions right away. Beer should be drunk slowly, trying to feel the taste, highlight the notes of malt and hops, determine if the taste of yeast is felt. Maybe the tongue feels a pleasant or, conversely, excessive strength of the drink.
In 2006 "Corona Extra" beer was awarded a gold medal at the International Exhibition "Monde Selection" in Brussels, and deservedly so.
It is worth trying to combine beer with different snacks, focusing not only on the preferences of Mexicans, but also on your own. For example, "Crown" is perfect for grilled sea bass with spices. After all, not everyone likes to flavor all dishes with chili pepper, not everyone likes exotic seafood.
Each beer can be selected culinary couple to your taste. And it doesn't have to be tacos, tortas or burritos.
Beer "Korona Extra" is good not only in itself. In Mexico, beer cocktails are also made from it. Light light "Korona Extra" is perfect for cooking Celado. To prepare it, you need to mix beer, lime juice, add salt and fresh hot pepper Chile.
Adding a couple of sauces to Chelado, Worcestershire and soy, we get Michelado.
You can also cook Clamato from the "Crown" by adding to the beer tomato juice, as well as lime juice and a little salt.
With moderate consumption, "Korona Extra" does not cause a hangover. However, some combinations can lead to severe hangovers. Some craftsmen manage to prepare "Yorsh" even from this noble drink, adding 33 g of tequila to 330 g of beer. But the resulting mixture is more deafening than delivering at least some pleasure.
Corona beer packaging
Meanwhile, good beer, consumed in moderation, can bring tangible benefits to the body. Since ancient times, beer has been used to treat the heart, liver, kidneys, and stomach. Beer quenched a toothache, and the Sumerian king Hammurabi generally ordered all medicines to be dissolved in beer.
Of course, now we know much more about the effects of alcohol and the human body. The harm caused by alcohol to the body does not allow the use of beer as a medicine. But in moderate doses, a foamy drink supplies vitamins of group B, PP to the body, and soothes nerves thanks to hops.
The question of what is more, benefit or harm, is still being studied at the highest level. The Health and Beer Research Council of Mexico awarded grants to 2 groups of scientists to fund their research on the effects of beer on the human body. The topics of their research are related to aging and cell lifespan, as well as the effect of beer on people suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and high blood pressure.
The results are still unknown, but already now it can be argued that the low-calorie and low-alcohol beer "Korona" improves mood, perfectly quenches thirst and gives pleasure to those who chose it.
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Corona Extra beer is the most popular beer in Mexico and is exported in large quantities to the United States. In the world, Corona Extra beer is one of the five best-selling varieties, it is sold in 150 countries. Fans of this drink appreciate its light refreshing taste, delicate aroma of corn and meadow herbs, and a characteristic foamy cap. The specific taste of the drink is due to the presence of ingredients such as corn, rice, ascorbic acid. It is recommended to drink Corona Extra beer with a slice of lemon or lime.
In 1925, the La Cerveseria Modelo brewery was built in the Mexican capital, owned by Grupo Modelo. It was decided to release beer with a pronounced character, and use strict bottles as containers, which should not have distracted the attention of buyers from the contents. Aggressive marketing policy led to the fact that after only three years the company became the leader of the Mexican beer market. In 1930, its products appeared in the USA, where the brand quickly became the most popular among imported brands.
Grupo Modelo did not loosen its grip and began to buy up competitors' factories, releasing its products there. By 1943, 20 million people in Mexico preferred Corona Extra beer to other varieties of intoxicating drink. In the 1970s, the company opened a number of modern factories in its own country, and in the next decade began its global expansion. By the end of the twentieth century, Korona Extra beer became popular in such "beer" European countries as Belgium and Germany. In 2006, the drink received a gold medal at the international exhibition in Brussels "Monde Selection".
Beer "Korona" in WineStyle stores can be bought at a price of 157 rubles. This is how much the Extra variety costs in a 355 ml bottle.
