Middling moderate-bodied pale lager with sweet barley-rice graining and ticklish carbolic fizz soaking up sugary malting. Predictable, simple, soapy. Serve to light pilsner enthusiasts only.

Simple, soft-bodied, flat-headed pale lager in recognizable barrel-like brown bottle put Jamaica on beer map. Gentle barleymalt subtlety creases disturbingly sour lemon-limed backdrop. Grainy dirtiness differs substantially from most agave/ tequila-minded mass marketed Caribbean brews, putting it closer to a mustier, less cloying Budweiser.

Lean light-bodied pale-hued caramel-malted lager with crisp hop bite, sharp carbolic fizz, and sour citric undertones decorating faint burgundy finish. Though toasted grain finish is fleeting, Singha’s still more assertive than most Asian pilsner-lagers.

Pungent sourdough yeast-wafted, puffy white-headed, clear-bellied, medium-bodied lager maintains fizzy salted-hop bitterness to desolate watered down creamed corn finish. Mild pale malt sweetness belies stiffly astringent sour malt profundity.

Pale complexion, soft white head, and watery texture bring light-bodied appeal to sedate German lager. Sourdough aromatics and honeyed malts counter bitter hop spicing. Aimed at novices looking for German version of Coors Light.

Stale-breaded corn-soured billowy-headed moderation was one of the first imports offered to American market during early ’70s. Burnt coffee dryness and ripe grape undertones disappear too far in front of disturbing grassy-hopped vegetal finish for any maintained dignity.

Clover honey waft prefigures corn cereal buoyancy, creamy caramel malt seduction, and intervening chalky mocha-cocoa souring as tamped down hops fortify buttery finish of fine pale amber. Slight departure from usual grain-based South American beers.

Drab straw-hued dry-bodied Jamaican retains smarmy crystal-malted cereal-sugared grain-caramelized sweetness, but carbolic fizz overwhelms dank doughy must and buttery popcorn resonance.

Heady ‘original’ Budweiser brewed in Czech Republic since 1795 brought to America in ’05, two years after the arrival of more consistent, less malt-y regional rival Budvar (a.k.a. Czechvar). Dry-hopped musk-scented honey roasted lager retains creamed corn assertion, toasted grain austerity, and malt liquor pungency. Informal Scotch piquancy, dank white bread staleness, and alfalfa-grass-horsehide trace whisked away by third sip. Canned version seems more astringently alcoholic and lemony bitterer.

Bitter hop-fizzed opening punctuated by pungent earthen mustiness countering delicate crystal-malted barley-wheat sweetness. More full-bodied and classier than most South American competition, comparing favorably to mainstream stateside lagers.

Wayward golden-cleared cumulous-headed pale lager integrates sweet corn-sugared grain affluence and cinnamon-honeyed wheat wafer motif with cheap malt liquor-like passage. Prickly hop fizz fades abruptly and watery washed-out finish confounds.

Even-tempered pale lager imbued by opulent honey palate, dry malt sweetness, and dull cocoa pitch lacks anticipated hop bite. Only moderate mocha richness saves this from being lost amongst commonplace lagers. Brewery defunct: 2006.