Oculto
Beer with Tequila stave-aged lager and natural flavors. Broken Barrel Brewing Co.
2.1
156 reviews
St. Louis, United States
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Bright golden pour. Sweet aroma. Flavor is alcoholic. Sweet finish. Weird.
Nowhere on the bottle does it mention AB-Inbev. There’s another brewery named on the 6-pack holder. I, for one, don’t like being played. I will not be drinking/buying this again.
Oh god awful. Just terrible. All I can describe it as is terrible. I ended up pouring out 5.5 beers
12 ounce bottle, no glass, because what's the point? Basically a mild fruit beer, tastes agave, slightly tart. Not bad, actually. I've had worse.
Aroma is on the sweeter side. Taste is fruity up front with a tequila aftertaste. Overall not good, but better than it sounds.
Poured clear amber color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate fruit. soft wood and grain aroma. Medium body with a smooth thick texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium earthy sweet finish of moderate duration. Better then my expectations.
Overall not bad. Lots of carbonation. Very sweet and syrupy. Tequila Aroma. Slightly dry finish.
12 oz. bottle, given to me by Zach. Pale yellow, with a small, bubbly, off-white head and lots of bubbles. The nose is corn syrup, bread dough, maybe a touch of agave, and salt. Cloyingly sweet, with no hint of bitterness to cut it. Light to medium body, creamy, smooth, and sticky mouthfeel. This is not the most awful thing ever, but it is close. Some sort of lime or some light bittering hops would help a bit.
Pours a nice clear amber from a bottle. That's about as good as it gets, otherwise it's basically an alkopop, all sugary grossness. Is this even a beer?
It’s limey... It’s OK I guess... Think bud light lime but different and more syrupy. Really I don’t hate it but I’m not really getting anything of tequila staves. It’s kind of like somewhere at ab they were like "let’s make a beer out of a margarita" and all the beer drones worked to come up with this...
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours gold with a slight white head. Aroma suggests lime. Not the citrus part. Maybe it’s agave? Near med body. Flavor is agave; not getting oak; it’s kind of gluey. It’s almost like there’s a lime touch. Rather unpleasant.
12oz bottle pours out a crisp golden topped with a white head. nose is lime margarita and corn. Taste is lime sweetness some tequila and corn notes.
I liked this better than I expected, although as usual I’m offended by the label trying to disguise who the real brewer is. +++ Sampled from a 12oz clear bottle this beer poured a vibrant dark golden color with a large foamy yellow-white head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet and tangy with notes of lemon-lime soda, black pepper and tequila. The flavor was tangy and sweet with lemon-lime, salt, pepper and tequila. Medium length finish. Light body. Not bad.
bottle. Poured clear gold with no head. Light grainy aroma with lime citrus. Light fizzy body. Odd, tastes like a beer margarita, citrusy and salty flavour.
The worst beer I have ever tried. I’m not even comfortable calling it beer. I didn’t even finish the single that I bought at the gas station. **I poured it down the drain** The label looks cool. That’s the only nice thing I can say about it. It really is that bad.
12 ounce clear bottle. Pours a clear pale gold with a decent white head. Aroma and taste of sweet malt, corn, agave, and some tequila. Had to try it, don’t know why. Mistake for sure.
Bottle that I took to James’s for a tasting with Hackobock. Pours a clear amber with a thin white head. Soft lemon and a hint of lime over soft wheat. Medium bodied, light lime, a vague hint of tequila. Lemon and citrus into the finish. Sweet and full of corn. Hints of lemon and lime, soft tequila flavor.
25 oz can from a mini market on El Segundo Blvd south of LAX. Nose is agave, tequila, and creamed corn. Clear gold with a big heavy lacing white head. Flavor is sweet, with fruity and Kix corn cereal notes.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear lighter gold color with a small white head that leaves spots of lace in the glass while settling into a ring and a few wisps of film. The aroma has notes of agave, oak, tequila, and lime, while the flavor has those four in shorter order and heavier doses of corn, cereal, and booze. Crisp, clean aroma, and a heavier mouthfeel. Medium-bodied, with medium carbonation. Sweet and boozy. The aroma promises more, but still, as malt liquors go, this isn’t bad. Would pair well with Mexican food.
Bottle from Vallarta: Smelled sweet and sugary like a soda or ginger ale perhaps because of the agave, didn’t really smell like a beer. The appearance was a sparkling golden liquid that looked like a cider or some other kind of malt beverage. No head but fizz and when cracked open the white gases expose themselves in the neck of the bottle. The flavor is sweet and taste of agave and honey but also has some off flavors that are not desirable in a beer even if it was aged with tequilla. Taste phoney and fake but then again I had already known it was made by a macro brew company but still had to try it. Will never want to drink this again.
This beer pours up a clean clear sun yellow, with a small white head. Some lacing. Aroma is sweet malt, fruity with agave, and a hint of spice. Smooth carbonation, light body. Taste is sweet, with a boozy component, and spicy fruity finish. It is very fragrant of agave tequila. Surprisingly, not all that bad considering. Clean and refreshing. Cool beer to try.
Bought it on a whim.
Should have saved the money.
It tastes pretty bland.
One of those beers you purchase ’just for the hell of it.’ ; you know it is going to be pretty bad, but you hope for the best. All and all, it is not that bad for a novelty beer from InBev. I was expecting much more of a disaster.
25 oz can from Jungle Jim’s eastgate in Cincinnati. I fished this out of a end of season clearance cart, so bonus. Oculto is a clear light yellow liquid with a large fizzy white head. Nose is faint floral. Taste is watered down sweetness and some spice. Does oculto go bad? does it go stale? if so, mine might have been so. Based on other reviewers, that might have not been a bad thing. Recap, bland watery fake tequilaish malt liquor product underperforms.
Just awful! Incredibly watery and smelly like a cheap shot of tequila and
Warm beer, did not
Like it all
Clear yellow. Fizzy white head. Soda-like sweetness. Super sugary. Some vanilla. A hint of something you might consider tequila if you’ve never had tequila. Alco pop. Not beer.
25oz can from Albertsons in Idaho Falls
Pours clear golden with a very small white head, no lacing. Aroma and flavors of watered down Tequila and sweet malts
Not bad but if you don’t like Tequila, this isn’t for you.
Big 25 oz can and I’m glad its not10% as expected! Looks like malt liquor but has a stronger volatile mild fruit perfume smell whiffing over here! Pretty strong but has a slight artificial fruit taste on the cheap malt liquor backbone. Yes a watered down beer laced with a shot of grain alky and some teek. Perhaps a little difficult at times. A little smoother than expected but still near the paint stripper effect. Did I say difficult at times? Reflecting, not as good as the old Tequiza. T\In the end this does remain quite quaff-able even to the finish of the 25.
Oculto is watered down Tequiza. It is ’better’ than the the strong tequila tasting Tequiza which was putrid astringent witch hazel tequila flavored compared to the regular, sweeter and lighter Tequiza before it was retired. So compared to the regular Tequiza, Oculto just stinks (I’m being kind here). The aroma is ’interesting’ but other than that it is bad. There is no tequila or agave in this. Only a faint hint from the wood casks. Pass (it on). Not quite drain pour but close...finish at your own risk...I even doubt it is 6% ABV which is AB InBev’s baseline for any malt liquor. I bet it is just a Bud Light base and a stale one at that.
If you WANT TO TRY IT, get a single bottle. I would not waste any $ on a sixer. I bet a Clydesdale would buck and chuck this.
Out of bottle, clear gold yellow color. Aroma is a bit of corn,lime and tequila. Taste is sweet as hell, lots of lime and tequila notes, slight corn, this beer coil actually be a decent refreshing beer for a hot day if it wasn’t for the cloying sweetness.