If Life Gives You Ashes, Make Micheladas
Although Mexican health authorities might not approve of the drink, that hasn’t stopped the Popo michelada craze from taking hold
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New Alcohol-Free Beer Launched in Mexico
Developed by the master brewers of the Monterrey-based Cervecería Cuauhtémoc beermaker to mimic the taste of its more potent regular Tecate, Tecate 0.0 joins the company’s Heineken 0.0 to take the lead in Mexico’s rapidly expanding nonalcoholic beer market
Read moreBill Gates Buys Femsa’s Heineken Shares
Gates purchased 10.8 million of those shares, worth $939.87 million, triggering a disclosure requirement under Dutch stock market rules
Read moreFEMSA to Leave Beer Business
FEMSA currently employs more than 354,000 people
Read moreWalking and Drinking Cervezas on the Road to Mexico’s Revolutions
By RICH GRANT By a stroke of good fortune for the Mexican tourism office, both of Mexico’s revolutions began 100 years apart – in 1810 and 1910 . Routes that follow the various military campaigns have been laid out with one leaving from Guadalajara that goes to the three most historic towns of Mexico’s 1810 revolt (against the Spanish rule,
Read moreMaría 138 Celebrates Sixth Year with Pizza and Prosecco Party
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s City’s premiere Sicilian restaurant, María 138, turned six on Thursday, Aug. 25, and its owner, Cristina Maria Cialona, in true Sicilian (and true Cristina Maria Cialona) style, celebrated the occasion with an “intimate” gathering of some 150 of her closest friends, with a lavish night of pizza and prosecco Bellinis. And also true to Cristina Maria
Read moreAMLO Asks Bottlers to Stop Producing Sodas, Beer in Nuevo León
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Because of the worsening drought in the northern state of Nuevo León, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, July 18, asked bottlers in that region to stop the production of soft drinks and beers in order to provide more water to the population. “In other states (in the north of Mexico), the governors are
Read moreDenver’s Western Saloons Resembled English, Irish Pubs
By RICH GRANT People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years at a variety of taverns, ale houses, coaching inns and grog shops, but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. In the 1700s, to counter distilled spirits imported from Ireland and Scotland, England encouraged distilling corn
Read moreDirty Tricks Politics Afoot in Tamaulipas, Durango Gubernatorial Races
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO With four out of six state races for governor cleared, Mexico’s upcoming June 5 election is left to solve two main frays at the booths: Tamaulipas and Durango. Most pundits and polls agree that up ahead of schedule, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) will retain the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, while the once-almighty centralist
Read moreGourmet Food Fest Heralds in Beginning of End of Pandemic
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It has been called Mexico’s culinary Oscars, and for eight groundbreaking seasons, it has been “The Place” to sample some of Mexico City’s best gastronomic offerings. And this year’s edition of Sabor es Polanco, held in the open-air venue of the Campo Marte military base next to the National Auditorium, on Saturday, March 12, and Sunday, March
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