Why we use lime or lemon in corona extra?!
Why we use lime or lemon in corona extra?
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The reason I was told is also similar to how tapas started in spain. Putting something over your drink to keep flys out. Over time the practice evolved into something completely different. Tapas (tapa: lid, cover) was just plain bread on a glass of wine until somebody added to it.
Limes are everywhere in Mexico so a slice of lime on the bottle became a squeezed lime in the bottle. Citrus and beer have been around for a while and in certian cases go very well together.
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Beer enthusiast, cook, lover of all foods spanish and mexican.
Homebrewer.
It makes it taste better.
i just drink it straight. the lime adds flavor but oh well.
As a Mexican I was always told beer tasted better with lime. Then I realized as a Mexican I preferred the taste of many foods and drinks with lime. I think it is a cultural thing. I like my corn with lime, my papaya with lime, my peanuts with lime and salt, my mangoes with lime and salt, etc.
So because corona is a Mexican beer I guess it just got associated with lime. I honestly say that beer with lime is the best, especially some light beer.
I heard that the company used to have a crappy bottling plant and one would wipe the rim with a lime to get the rust off the bottle. U use limes because that's what grows in Mexico.
cultural tradition
I spent one New year's Eve up in the mountains of Mexico in this tiny little cantina with a dirt floor and a couple of goats running in and out. But the Corona was ice cold and the little Mexican limes were the kicker !!! For some reason,it gives beer a whole new twist.
I'm with "Eater" -- the acid in limes and lemons will cleanse the container.
Because it's a Mexican beer and traditionally Mexican beer is served with lime. Next time when having a Corona, put a shot of Bacardi Limon in it. It's really good.
cuz you have to do something with the taste of that crap.
Intensifies the flavor and makes a good combo. Just like peanut butter and jelly or a cigarette and beer...they just go together!
i like limes in my coronas. don't need it, but its nice. not if your a guy though, i'm sure you've heard of the man law that states "no fruit in beer"
To kill the taste of the sour beer.
I have heard that it began back in the day of long sail voyages. The crew would ad limes to their beer while sailing to prevent "scurvey", which is a lack of vitamin C and common on ships way back when.
After 25 years in the beer business I have come to the following conclusion:
IF YOUR BEER NEEDS A LIME, YOU ARE DRINKING A LEMON!!!!!!!
Because Corona Beer is pretty skunky, nasty stuff so you need to add something to it to kill the taste.
A squeeze of lime in in a Corona is a fairly new matter of taste. Legend has it when Tecate beer first came in cans, they were tin, and had a nasty taste. Wiping the top (no pop tops then) took the tinny taste away. Very good for the Mexican lime business now.