This 355ml bottle was brought to me as a gift by Lucy Garcia Benitez, it contains 4,5% alcohol, as most good pilsen beer do.
It carries this name because it's produced in the port city of Mazatlán, Mexico, right at the Pacific Ocean. As most small breweries nowadays, Pacifico brewery is owned partially by the Anheuser-Bush InBev company, that detains 50% of the stake of Grupo Modelo, owner of Pacifico brewery since 1954.
The brewery was founded by three german guys, back in 1900, and Pacifico Clara is the trademark beer of the company (Clara means simply 'clear', as opposed to dark).
So, over 100 years after that, a small beer botlle, product of a Mexican brewery founded by Germans, crosses the Atlantic Ocean back into Germany in the hands of a Mexican girl flying in a French plane operated by a Dutch company, and is handed in to her Brazilian friend, who got to know her through his Italian friend he met in a English speaking masters program.... Thank you Globalization!!
And, of course, thank you Lucy!
link to the producer: http://www.gmodelo.com.mx/index-2.asp?go=pacifico
Pacifico brewery's history: http://www.vivemazatlan.com/index.php/Historias/Historia-de-la-Cerveceria-del-Pacifico.html
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