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Some of my favorite Mexican capitalists just love to tell me why Micro-beer can’t possibly compete in Mexico’s Beer Monopoly Universe. You know, the place that exports Modelo and Sol and leaves the rest of us with cahuamas of Victoria and Indio.

Turns out that  they do have a thorough lock down on Mexico’s beer market, and virtually nothing else is available anywhere.

Trouble is, Mexican food just tastes good with a lot of different beers.

And no amount of distributive malfeasance is going to prevent people from enjoying the beer they want, even if they can’t get it at Oxxo – which just happens to be owned and operated by FEMSA. That means, you can get Tecate, Sol, Dos Equis, Carta Blanca, Superior, Indio, Bohemia and Noche Buena at Oxxo, but you can’t get Corona, Corona Light, Negra Modelo, Modelo Especial, Victoria, Estrella, Léon, Montejo or Pacifico. Sigh.

Micro-brew beer is always about special beer though. Not about guzzling gallons of it either and frothing from the upper tiers of Stadio Azteca, but about a good beer, maybe a couple, that you can’t get at Oxxo.

I’ll hope to update you later on this story when I figure out where to get some Calavera – besides at one of the festivals that they are apparently lighting up. According to KnutAlbert, they are somewhere west of Mexico City – wonder what that means ?  But it’s usually worth a drive to get something besides the local massive-suds brew -  at least it always was in the states.