![]() A sip of Corona Extra gives you a crisp and tart, barely honey-sweet flavor that ends with a vegetal taste at the back of the palate. Maltier and with more cereal sweetness, Familiar seems to coat the tongue, giving a feeling of roundness that you’d never accuse Corona Extra of having. It’s when sipping both back to back, that the truth comes out.Ĭorona Familiar has a noticeably richer and fuller flavor than Corona Extra. The aromas coming from both were so similar that they may have been the same. With two dear friends and my accomplices and witnesses, we set out to know once and for all of Extra and Familiar are indeed the same Corona.īoth poured with the same light gold clarity, and absolutely no difference in color. I armed myself with 32 bottles of each beer, ready to undertake my daunting task. Till I either unlocked the mysteries or died of alcohol poisoning trying. There was only way to get to the bottom of this. bottles have a much more rustic and humble appearance than the blue and white, golden hued bottles of Corona Extra.Ī huge debate rages among Corona drinkers about whether Extra and Familiar are even two different beers! Many swear that they are one in the same, and the only difference is its bottle. While Corona Extra has been available in the US since 1979, Familiar doesn’t share the same familiarity stateside. Corona’s clear bottles, while useful in showing off how good that beer looks, leaves that poor beer extremely vulnerable and susceptible to being light struck. ![]() Whether you get your beer from a convenience store, grocery store, or a BevMo, it’s gonna be sitting on a shelf, possibly exposed to sunlight through the glass windows of the store, and that sunlight inevitably breaks down the acid compounds present in the hops, turning them into the same musky compound found in skunk spray. ©Corona Extra Beer.See, brown bottles help to shield beer from the harmful effects of the suns UV rays.
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