Desperados (beer) explained

Desperados is an agave spirit flavoured pale lager beer with 5.9% alcohol by volume (ABV) originally created and produced by the French brewing company Fischer Brewery but now is produced by Zlatý Bažant Brewery, a Heineken N.V. subsidiary .^{[1] [2] [3]}

Desperados has a 5.9% ABV. The beer is now sold in over fifty countries. The beer was reformulated and cheapened, away from its original recipe using tequila. The new recipe also brought the ABV down from 5.9% to 5.6%.

Desperados' listed ingredients were water, malted barley, glucose syrup, corn, sugar, aromatic compound (agave spirit), citric acid, and hop extract.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Is America Ready for Tequila-Flavored Beer?. Schultz. E.J.. April 24, 2014. Advertising Age. 3 October 2016.
2. Web site: Heineken to Stop Selling Desperados Tequila-Flavored Beer in the U.S.. November 18, 2015. Advertising Age. 3 October 2016.
3. Web site: Heineken Pulls Desperados Tequila-Flavored Beer From U.S.. November 19, 2015. Beverage Dynamics. 3 October 2016.