Corona (beer)
Overview
Spain
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, is a brand of pale lager
Pale lager
Pale lager is a very pale to golden-coloured beer with a well attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid 19th century when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewing techniques back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany and applied it...
owned and produced by Cerveceria Modelo
Grupo Modelo
Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico, It has 63% of the Mexican beer market, and exports beer to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada . Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico...
at a number of breweries in Mexico. It is one of the best-selling beers in Mexico and is one of the top-selling beers worldwide. Corona beer is available in over 170 countries.
In the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Corona is commonly served with a wedge of citrus fruit, usually lime
Lime (fruit)
Lime is a term referring to a number of different citrus fruits, both species and hybrids, which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3–6 cm in diameter, and containing sour and acidic pulp. Limes are a good source of vitamin C. Limes are often used to accent the flavors of foods and...
or sometimes lemon
Lemon
The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...
, inserted into the neck of the bottle, adding tartness and flavor.
In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Corona Extra is the top selling imported beer.
According to Sinebrychoff
Sinebrychoff
Sinebrychoff Brewery is a Finnish brewery and soft drinks company. It was founded in 1819 in Helsinki, Finland by Russian colonist Nikolai Sinebrychoff , and is one of the largest breweries in Finland today. It has since become part of Carlsberg Breweries A/S....
, a Finnish company owned by the Carlsberg Group, Corona Extra contains water, barley malt, rice and/or corn, hops, yeast, antioxidants (ascorbic acid E300), and propylene glycol alginate E405 to act as a stabiliser.
Corona beer is available in a variety of bottled presentations, ranging from the 190 millilitre ampolleta (labeled Coronita and just referred as the cuartito) up to the 940 millilitre Corona Familiar (known as the familiar, Litro or Mega).