Beer · Light & sessionable

Mexican Lager

Crisp, corn-kissed, built for lime and sunshine — the taco's beverage soulmate.

How to order it: Vienna lager roots via Austrian immigrants. Lime wedge welcome, not required.

The story

Mexican brewing was industrialized in the late nineteenth century largely by German, Austrian, and Swiss immigrant brewers, who imported lager technique — including the Vienna style their European homelands would soon abandon. That inheritance survives in Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Ambar, while the paler, corn-smoothed interpretation became the national archetype: crisp, light, and built for heat, lime optional but traditional. The export story is its own conquest — Corona became one of the world's most recognized beer brands, and in 2023 Modelo Especial overtook Bud Light to become the best-selling beer in the United States. Old Vienna, reborn on the beach, quietly out-selling the country that invented lager's biggest names.

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