Tonight Sandy and I made carnitas tacos, the way only a white guy and his beautiful Korean girlfriend would: so that it kind of ended up tasting like pot roast. It was tremendously tender and juicy, and had some good flavor, but it was severely lacking in the "Mexican" department. Fortunately, I had an ace up my sleeve in the form of one last bottle of Tecate in the fridge.
Tecate cerveza is a brew originally from the Baja, California region. It has since been purchased by Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, based out of Monterey, but some batches of Tecate still come from the original location. Tecate in the can has the highest sales rate of any canned import here in the United States, although I couldn't tell you exactly what the competition is for that distinction.
It looks the same as Corona, except it comes in a brown bottle instead of a clear one, and they don't have somewhat popular commercials on American television. I'm told a slice of lime goes a long way, but I used all my limes on the tacos, so it's going down straight. The taste is fairly similar to Corona or any other cerveza I can think of. It's not the most inspiring beer in the universe, but something about drinking it with tacos makes sense, cosmically.
The next time you decide to make some Mexican food at your house, go the distance and grab some Tecate and see if your meal improves from the likely Gringo-fest it started as. It may not, but at least you'll have beer in your stomach.
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