Talk:Corona (beer)

Miscellaneous early comments
In the United States, where it rivals Heineken for the distinction of being the top imported beer, it is typically served with a slice of lime. is this besides canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.205.90.122 (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2005 (UTC)

Green glass is rather ineffective in blocking light as well--Heineken has the same "light-struck" problem as Corona, although Corona's clear glass is of course the worst possible protection. Only dark brown bottles can effectively keep beer tasty very long under direct light exposure. Direct sunlight is worst, but it doesn't need to be UV spectrum. Regular flourescent lighting will spoil beer in no time. NTK 04:21, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Someone should edit that Corona Light is now a big seller in the US due to the new advertising campaign. "the only light beer thats also a corona" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.155.195.65 (talk) 17:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

The author was drinking LOTS of beer when [it], the article, was written. Very flawed. I have a house 7 miles from the factory in Mexico and the EMPLOYEES use lemons to disinfect the rim of the bottle-neck prior to drinking. Since the water even in ice is not bottled, the ice is considered non-potable, and lemons DO have a slight anti-microbial property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dicknixon (talk • contribs) 12:43, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree with the above statements. The article author's lime theory is BS. I've been drinking Corona since before you could even get it in the US and have NEVER had one that was "skunky." I've had more skunky Heinekens than I care to remeber. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.178.26 (talk) 18:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I have had plenty of skunk beers, along with a fair amount of Heineken. But it is usually because someone besides the brewery or store ruined it. If you buy a case of it, and put in the fridge in a reasonable amount of time, everything will be alright. But if you buy a six pack, and leave it in the light it will not taste the same. Its common sense to beer drinkers that brown bottles are much better at maintaining quality than clear or green. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.109.234.249 (talk) 10:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm every corona I have ever had, and that isn't that many has had a sulfury skunky aroma and taste to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by E tac (talk • contribs) 18:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

This is a very unprofessional article. Above all the Skunky flavor statements. Who came up with that? The competition? Some college kid? What is Wikipedia waiting to take down this page and make it more professional? If Corona has a clear glass bottle, it might be because they know it will be sold quickly, before the light affects the product. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.93.16 (talk) 15:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure glass filters UV light, regardless if it's clear or not, so the spoilage cannot be due to that. The papercited that says spoilage may occur due to exposure to UV light or towards the low end of visible light spectrum. I hope someone with more knowledge of physics can correct the article, but for now I'll remove mention of UV and just change it to light. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DWarrior (talk • contribs) 02:29, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

True, except that college kid probably goes to mexico to drink your beer. Like German beer is only good in germany, mexican beer is only good in mexico except mexican beer should stay in mexico. That stuff in horrible. tastes like dried yeast. That and dry n' wet dont mix. Wet beer is good for wet climates. IDK. Its the preservatives, almost all american beer is bad because of this fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.234.57 (talk) 17:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I wish to add that I too have heard (from a few people) that the actual reason Lime is added to the neck of the beer was originally to prevent/deter flies and other flying insects from entering the beer. Some further info about this can be reviewed at http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/lime.asp, http://www.mexinsider.com/limes-in-mexican-beer.html , http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_you_put_a_lime_with_coronas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thebuckstopshere79 (talk • contribs) 06:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd just like to point out that corona extra is 4.6% alc/vol. I have a bottle on front of me. The page says 4.5%. Although small it should be corrected. Trogo242 (talk) 01:39, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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Origin of te name
There used to be a beer produced in the United States called Corona, but the company went bankrupt, and sold the name to the mexican company so it could sell it under that name in the U.S. It was a shame really the beer tasted much better.... But their business model sucked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.23.196.211 (talk) 02:31, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Carlton & United Beverages
I updated the name of Carlton and added a fact tag, then took a moment to do some research. It looks like Foster's (owner of Carlton) extended an existing agreement between them and Grupo Modelo to distribute Corona in Australia (see here for a sample press release). I couldn't find anything on Foster's website relating to Corona regarding a new agreement to provide Corona on tap via Carlton. Searching for a separate Carlton website redirects to Foster. Perhaps someone else can find something, otherwise the whole statement regarding this in the first paragraph should be deleted.--CheMechanical (talk) 00:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Ingredients
What is this beer made from? Do they make it from barley or corn? --88.112.62.150 (talk) 17:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Same as German purity beers more or less. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.34.227.173 (talk) 13:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

In Germany, any beer brewed there cannot legally contain neither corn nor rice. If it does, it cannot legally be called "beer". By the way, Mexico has some pretty good beers. One of the worst though is Corona, brewed cheaply with cheapest ingredients to give the poorest inhabitants the illusion of drinking something beer-like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.247.112.214 (talk) 18:29, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

The ingredients reference no longer points to any ingredients, should this section be removed and replaced with a different source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tntexplosivesltd (talk • contribs) 20:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

"Domestic to the United States"
What on earth does this mean? "All Corona beer is brewed and bottled in one of 7 Modelo Breweries in Mexico but it is domestic to the United States." IF it's all from Mexico, it cannot be domestic in the U.S.; it's foreign. --Nricardo (talk) 13:28, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Move Article?
I'd like to suggest that this article be moved to 'Corona Extra'. It would mean you could access the page without relying on a disambiguation page. It's also the official name of the beer, simply 'Corona' being an informal usage. Anyoe agree? If so I'll move it. 193.157.233.66 (talk) 19:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Origin
This beer is mexican but it was created, the beer and the company, by a spanish man living in Mexico. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.147.232 (talk) 01:14, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

New Section Related to Ownership
I propose to create a new section within the article to discuss the ownership of the company that manufactures Corona. I think it's important to include this information because many Corona drinkers might be under the mistaken impression that the beer is still owned by the Mexican company that created it, when this is no longer the case (the majority of the shares of Grupo Modelo have been owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev since 2008 and they are purchasing the rest in 2012).

Should a section called "Ownership" be created here? Or would it fit better in the Grupo Modelo article? -mg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macgirl (talk • contribs) 00:07, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Fast & Furious
Should have a mention that it is like the official beer in the Fast & Furious franchise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NearCry (talk • contribs) 23:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 3 February 2020
179.199.60.223 (talk) 15:31, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Wrong page.  JTP (talk • contribs) 15:35, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * That's kind of the idea. This page has been continuously vandalized in relation to the outbreak Jakesyl (talk) 00:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Passing mention of this Wikipedia article in press
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:07, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus

Way too much weight given to coronavirus
Yikes, I came here expecting to see a sentence or two on the coronavirus confusion, not two paragraphs. And worse, reading them, it seems like the widely-reported 38% statistic was massively misrepresented, with the actual pertinent number being 4%. Per WP:RECENTISM, WP:NOTNEWS, and WP:WEIGHT, let's please slash this down to at most two sentences. Agreed? Sdkb (talk) 18:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I actually came here to say the same thing. The article in general needs a lot of work. I think ideally, there would be a "History" section, and there would be a couple sentences about this there. The information merits a mention (if only as an example of widespread misinformation), but it doesn't deserve its own entire section. Surachit (talk) 04:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * How do you propose we slash this down to at most two sentences while fixing the serious flaws with the section? In particular:
 * It is ambiguous as to to what extent the drop in sales is accountable to social distancing versus the name, though this may be partly down to the question not being asked in surveys.
 * Further to this, although it attributes the drop in sales to closures of pubs/bars/restaurants, no distinction is otherwise made between sales through these and sales through shops. So one is left to wonder how the brand is doing in supermarkets and such, both in terms of absolute numbers and relative to other brands, and how much this has changed as a result of the outbreak.
 * The section talks about China and America but doesn't even begin to talk about elsewhere in the world. — Smjg (talk) 13:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I question if this beer needs to have a section on COVID-19, just because of its name ("corona" means crown in Spanish). The impact seems to affect all brands, from Carlsberg to Fix. -- Minoa (talk) 09:52, 12 July 2020 (UTC)


 * The beer doesn't have a section on COVID-19. Only this article about it does.  And I don't see that the article needs to have a section of it just because of its name.  And while it's true that COVID-19 has affect sales of all brands of beer, it's a reasonable question whether the name has led to this beer being disproportionately affected by the pandemic (because people might make a psychological connection even if they don't believe there's an actual connection), so it's reasonable for the article to at least address this question.  But at the same time, we need to make sure any addressing of the question is geographically balanced, which the current section isn't.  I guess one of us needs to study the sources in more detail. — Smjg (talk) 12:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Those "sources" are a *single* PR firm. But, there are several sources that call the entire thing bogus. 69.118.99.197 (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Covid
I feel like the effect of the pandemic on the beer should be more clearly stated. It comes off like the beer didn't sell as much because people don't want to go out in public, but that could be a lot of brands, and a simple sentence mentioning how the beer is called Corona and the COVID-19 is the coronavirus would make it clearer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:31:CDB0:891A:8D74:C85B:698C (talk) 15:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Done  Nixinova   T   C   23:17, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

The covid section of the article is just plain stupid imho. Not only a local perspective, but just one survey. In Europe it got a boost, the bottled version from Mexico was prominently sold at good prices in supermarkets, and probably as making fun of a pandemic is a nice coping mechanism, popularity grew so much InBev started a canned version for the EU, never available here before. So the relationship of the brand and the pandemic is more complex than that small trivia about the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.206.213.162 (talk) 21:10, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

The parent company(ies) are not right.
https://www.cbrands.com/brands shows Corona Beer. I think Anheuser Busch lost control of the Corona brand. Not sure about Modelo. This SHOULD BE CORRECTED (to Constellation Brands) IF YOU AGREE I AM RIGHT — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nixinova (talk • contribs) 23:17, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

"Among regular Corona drinkers, only 4% said they planned to stop drinking the brand"
The tone of this sentence implies that 4% is an insignificant number, which it isn't if you frame this as an immediate drop in sales among regular drinkers.--2A00:23C4:3E0F:4400:E9A3:25CE:CBCE:DF04 (talk) 18:10, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * But overall sales were rising, not falling. You could probably ask regular drinkers of anything at any random time and find that at least 4% of them say they plan to stop consuming it. Plans change, and while some people are reducing their consumption, others may be increasing theirs. —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 02:57, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 29 December 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Per BarrelProof there are other beers. (non-admin closure)  Crouch, Swale  ( talk )  16:56, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Corona (beer) → Corona Extra – Per WP:NATURAL a Google search for Corona beer returns almost all results with "Corona Extra" including the official website. There have been various suggestions above for moving to "Corona Extra" and unlike Apple the branding on the product has "Corona Extra" rather than just "Corona". Also because of the coronavirus pandemic its likely that its even more commonly known by the longer name since COVID-19 is often called "corona" and the article on the stellar meaning was moved to Stellar corona.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 22:44, 29 December 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Nobody walks into a bar and asks for a Corona Extra. Moreover, Corona Extra is not the only variation of Corona beer. There is also Corona Light, Corona Premier, and Corona Familiar. The truck shown in the article also doesn't have "Extra" on it, and the article also talks about Corona Light. When I search for Corona beer, most sources I find do not include "Extra" when referring to the brand – e.g., this CNN article. Even on the official website page linked above, most of the mentions of the brand don't include "Extra". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:51, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per BarrelProof—blindlynx 03:13, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 May 2022
the last sentence of the introduction contains an error. it should be "used" instead of "used used" 2003:CA:BF18:8BE5:7478:7114:FCC2:9B1F (talk) 18:45, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ MadGuy7023 (talk) 19:20, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 July 2022
Due to an antitrust action when acquiring Modelo, AB InBev was forced to divest control of the Corona Brand in the US. All Corona branded beverages in the US are produced and sold by Constellation Brands (STZ). The current article neglects to disclose that relevant fact. https://www.cbrands.com/brands/beer DonDinNC (talk) 12:28, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:45, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thee requested change is correct:

Please see full request to edit below.

ACuppaT (talk) 21:07, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Ownership Edit Requested: Page out of date
This is a fact-based edit request. The ownership and brewing information on the current page is a decade out of date. In 2013 an antitrust case resulted in Corona being owned by Constellation Brands in the US market and AB InBev everywhere else. That change is not noted in the first paragraph (making that paragraph of date) even though it is correct in the sidebar (under the Corona Extra logo).

See suggested text and citations below.

Current text: Corona is a brand of beer produced by Mexican brewery Cervecería Modelo and owned by Belgian company AB InBev.

Suggested text: Corona is a brand of beer produced in multiple breweries In Mexico and imported to markets around the world. U.S.-based Constellation Brands owns Corona in the U.S. Belgian company AB InBev owns the beer in all other markets.

Citations:

ACuppaT (talk) 20:58, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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