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Modelo and Corona aren't truly Mexican because German, Austrian, and Swiss immigrants created Mexican lager by adapting Vienna lager with corn in the 1800s. Spanish businessmen opened breweries and hired German brewmasters who made lighter, crisper versions of German style beers. Corona, Modelo, and Dos Equis all originated from breweries with German brewmasters before Mexicans took over in the 1930s and 1940s. #cerveza #beer #mexico #modelo #corona
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Odello and Corona aren't really Mexican, and here's why. Beer wasn't popular in Mexico until Spanish rule in the eighteen hundreds. German, Austrian, and Swiss immigration made beer more common in Mexico, and Spanish businessmen opened breweries and hired them. They took the Vienna lager, added corn because it was cheap and abundant, and created the Mexican lager, which was a lighter, crisper, and drier version of German style beers. Corona, Modelo, and Dos Equis all originated from breweries that employed German brewmasters and were later run by Mexicans in the thirties and forties who learned from them.
