Peru | website	Style: American Adjunct Lager
Reviews: 114 | Ratings: 193
Reviews by beerme626:3/5 rDev +2.7%beerme626, Dec 13, 2011More User Reviews:2.81/5 rDev -3.8%look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3Appearance  Light yellow in color with a very nice, white, foaming head that laced the glass.
Drinkability  My first Peruvian cervesa, and it didnt end up in the sink. Im impressed.★ 510 charactersRoyalT, Nov 12, 20035/5 rDev +71.2%Cuvie62, May 22, 20133.15/5 rDev +7.9%look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5Presentation: 12 oz gold foiled brown bottle with no freshness date.
Notes: Not a bad imported lager ... no undesirable skunkiness. Easy to drink and refreshes the palate though no real redeeming qualities, just a ho-hum lager.★ 549 charactersJason, Mar 26, 20022.71/5 rDev -7.2%look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3My first Peruvian beer, this pours a clear, pale, golden body that is full of carbonation. One centimeter white head of large bubbles quickly collapses and leaves no lace. Aroma has some grainy malt and spicy, sulfuric hops. Mouthfeel is light bodied, and awash with high carbonation. Taste is OK, with some sweetish grainy malt and restrained spicy hop bitterness. Very ho-hum flavor, with an acridly bitter finish. Better than most American macros, this is one I could enjoy while traipsing around Inca country. Otherwise, unremarkable and boring.★ 551 charactersmerlin48, Jun 29, 20052.75/5 rDev -5.8%ant1, Jan 09, 20133.25/5 rDev +11.3%IrishGermanAmerican, Mar 14, 20143/5 rDev +2.7%look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3A 330ml bottle with a BB of Aug 2012. The bottle features a sort of Inca design moulded into it, and the label mentions that this beer is made with 100% malt.
Meh - a fairly typical macro lager. Relatively clean tasting but not terribly interesting. Probably OK to quench your thirst if you find yourself in Peru; just keep it cold. No need to hunt it down.★ 882 charactersjazzyjeff13, Jun 07, 20122.75/5 rDev -5.8%HoppySeb, Nov 12, 20142.75/5 rDev -5.8%dcbeers, Feb 21, 20133.23/5 rDev +10.6%look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 311.2oz bottle.
While not good in the greater sense, the flavour is at least there, corn and grain cousins alike. No skunk (thanks maybe to the brown bottle) and no real complaints. Easy to drink, methinks, if you had a whole plate of something corn-based sitting in front of you.★ 836 charactersbiboergosum, Jul 31, 20112.85/5 rDev -2.4%look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3Pale gold-straw in color with a white head that quickly reduces down to a thin film atop the beer. Aroma is very similar to the generic domestic brew, a la Budweiser, with maybe a touch more bite to it.
On the positive side, though, I added a new country to my beer reviews, and tasted what my brother and his cohorts drank while sneaking out on a high school trip to Peru a few years back.★ 826 charactersRockyTopHeel, Jan 29, 20053.83/5 rDev +31.2%look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4Surprisingly malty for a South American beer, Cusquena is also dark golden in color. The creamy white head holds fairly well, and it leaves some remarkably nice rings of thin lace about the glass. Looking at the bottle I notice it states "100% Malt Lager", and that's evident in the nose along with some floral, grassy, and spicy hops. (Hmmm... it's a bit perfumey as well). The same malt and hop character follows in the flavor, and it's nicely bready and well-balanced. I find this to be much more of a Munich helles than an "American Macro Lager" as we have it listed here. It's quite nice, actually, and I'd welcome the opportunity to enjoy this any day over mass produced adjunct lager. There is a bit of a fermentation issue, however, which brings it down a bit, but other than that it's quite a pleasant surprise!★ 820 charactersNeroFiddled, Nov 04, 20073.19/5 rDev +9.2%look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5On layover in Lima, Peru heading home from Sao Paulo to Chicago...for those that know....long story. I took the opportunity to try Cusquena celebration especial whilst in Lima.
M-4 very smooth and easy drinking★ 360 charactersWoodBrew, May 28, 20113/5 rDev +2.7%ImperatorScab, Jul 20, 20141.83/5 rDev -37.3%look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5Tasted in a restaurant in Lima, Peru.
I left the bottle unfinished★ 399 charactersmcbiydw2, Jun 18, 20102.5/5 rDev -14.4%look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5Barracudas, Aug 16, 20153/5 rDev +2.7%look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3Pours a light yellow with a light white head. Light yeast nose with a little fresh white bread character. Medium bodied with nice pleasant simple flavors of light yeast and with a nice malt balance. Short finish but a pleasant session beer. Has some character and some flavor.★ 282 charactersGRG1313, Mar 06, 20102.01/5 rDev -31.2%look: 2.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2Let me just say right off that I did not enjoy this beer at all. A one mm head and orange amber color. Smells a little malty and not much else. No mouthfeel at all. Tastes like water with a little carbonation. No body, substance or mouthfeel at all. The only thing I like was the bottle which has the Machu Picchu granite blocks on the bottle.★ 343 charactersRichardbeerlover, Jan 27, 20143.75/5 rDev +28.4%look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5Cusquena pours into the pint glass from the unique brown bottle and displays a frothy two-finger head and a transparent golden straw color. Aroma of malt, caramel, and a slight Saaz floral hop character. The taste parallels the aroma and is very balanced and carbonated with a light body. This is a surprising beer and is a great transition from the true mass-marketed American Macro lagers. Cusquena is very refreshing and is a fantastic buy for these hot Texas summers.★ 471 charactersbrandoneast, Apr 14, 20083.25/5 rDev +11.3%lzepplin01, Jan 06, 20142.7/5 rDev -7.5%look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3pale, yellow clear beer that is refreshing if cold, but there's just not much there. Ok, sure it's beer, but not great beer and life's too short for that. Don't bother. Get something better if you need a light beer such as Sam's summer ale, Pyramid's summer, a shiner blonde or a hoegaarden★ 290 charactersTAMU99, Jul 18, 20083.3/5 rDev +13%look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5Poured from a brown 11.2 oz. bottle. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is mostly of malts, some notes of corn. Taste is like the smell, malts and corn, not bad but not very complex. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and has good drinkability. Overall this is a decent brew.★ 285 characterstone77, Jul 28, 20102.15/5 rDev -26.4%look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.512 oz bottle, best before 5/17/06.
short, clean, dry finish. boring. not horrible just boring.★ 288 charactersPadron4KM, Jan 29, 20062.97/5 rDev +1.7%look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3Pours a clear straw color with a fizzy white head that leaves no lacing.
Overall, this is what you'd expect with nothing offensive about it.★ 396 charactersocelot2500, Jan 21, 2012