San Miguel Flavored Beer

Entering the Iloilo market just a few weeks ago is the latest product of the San Miguel Lifestyle Brews collection. A novelty item at first glance, the San Miguel flavored beers - having a twist of lemon and apple, are geared for those who just getting into beer drinking or for those who don’t drink beer but are curious.

San Miguel flavored beers are no like Cali Shandy for these are really beer (with an alcohol content of 3 % compared to the shandy’s 0%). It’s bottle resembles that of San Miguel All Malt Premium Beer (which I heard is not performing well in sales). Thus I may believe that this flavored is actually a spin off just to make the all malt beer sell more.

Anyway, I just had these flavored two beers in just one sitting - 20 mins. apart and they really taste as what their labels say. Though the lemon flavour was more subdued, like Sprite or 7-Up, mixed with regular beer, the apple had more bodied flavour that makes me reminisce the Hi-C Apple drinking spree at Green Mango.

In comparison, it has more calories than SanMig Light due to higher malt content but it’s alcohol is only 3% compared with San Mig Light and Tanduay Ice’s 5%. The beer taste is more pronounced in the lemon flavor since it wasn’t that strong compared with the apple. Both have little beer aftertaste that makes them an easy drink for it has “little nauseous side effects”.

So grab one, no, two bottles so that you can also compare San Miguel Beer’s take on flavored beer will sweep the nation or will end up in the sidelines.

(As of now, only a number of limited stores and restobars offer these flavored beers and got these from Merchant’s Mart in front of the People’s Hotel (formerly Four Season Hotel) at Delgado-Fuentes Streets, Iloilo City)

An Ilonggo favorite - Valenciana

Found in almost all occasions like fiesta, birthdays, reunions and others, Ilonggos really love valenciana because most if not all have grown accustomed of having it in special gatherings at home. A complete " go, grow and glow " dish because it has the carbohydrates, protein and vitamins and minerals in just one spoonful, Valenciana is really an " occasional dish ". Here's the recipe for Valenciana

Ultimate Ilonggo Favorite: KBL Kadyos, Baboy, Langka

K.B.L. or Kadyos, Baboy, Langka is the ultimate favorite dish of most Ilonggos. It is also one of the most missed native dishes as kadyos and the souring ingredient, batwan , are hard to find when outside of the Ilonggo region. Basically, it is boiled/stewed pork dish owing its "deliciousness" to the combination of the soft and tender pork, the tamed sourness of batwan and the malinamnam na sabaw . One of the "secrets" of the malinamnamn na sabaw , is the fact that the pork, whether just the plain meat or pata (hocks) are first grilled or broiled. This gives the broth a rather smoky taste that makes it more appetizing.. Learn how to make the Ilonggo dish KBL (Kadyos, Baboy, at Langka) with the recipe below. Ingredients 1 kilo Pata (pork hocks) or pork cubes, GRILLED and sliced into bite size pieces 1 unripe Jack fruit, cubed 2 cups pigeon pea (kadyos) 6-8 pieces batwan fruit (or tamarind powder) 1 piece por...

A native delicacy called Inday-inday

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Muasi

A confession to start this blogpost - I consider MUASI as one of my hated native delicacies given its bland taste even with the sugar dip. But that was back during my childhood days. Maybe be because I may have used less sugar or might have completely forgotten to "dip" it at all. Yet nowadays, I have learned to appreciate it especially when its freshly cooked with the muscovado teeming the aroma of roasted sesame seeds. So let's make some MUASI

An Ilonggo favorite - Suman Latik

Suman Latik is one of my favorite native delicacies - plain suman/ibos topped with sweetened coconut strips or bukayo . Most of the time those sold in the markets have this two (suman and bukayo) already in one wrap and all you have to to is devour it. But most of the time, the bukayo portion is bitin that I wish there's more. So why not make our own suman latik so you can have all the suman we want with all the bukayo toppings we desire! Here's a simple recipe for Suman Latik

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