The UK flavoured beer category has grown steadily since the 2010s, and Amigos is one of its more straightforward propositions: a tequila-flavoured beer produced by Global Brands Ltd in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, with a pronounced tequila and citrus aroma over a light beer base and a sweet finish at 5.5% ABV. It does not position itself as a serious session beer or a pub staple — it is a party beer, a pre-drinks bottle, the kind of thing that appears in a cooler when the evening is just starting rather than at the table when the evening has already found its pace. If you are British and living in Tokyo, Amigos is the bottle that shows up at the flat party rather than the Friday pub session, and it serves that occasion exactly as intended.
Derbyshire’s tequila-flavoured beer, from the 2010s
Global Brands Ltd is based in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, and developed the Amigos range in the modern era — the 2010s — as part of the growing UK flavoured beer category. The company produces a range of flavoured beverages and has positioned Amigos within the tequila-beer hybrid territory that emerged internationally as younger drinkers sought alternatives to standard lager and spirits-based drinks.
The beer pours pale gold and the tequila and citrus aroma is the first and dominant feature — present before the bottle is opened, direct rather than subtle, exactly what the label communicates. The light beer base provides a low-bitterness foundation that keeps the tequila flavouring from competing with malt character, and the sweet finish suits the category’s approachability. At 5.5% ABV, it sits above standard session lager strength while remaining comfortably below spirit territory, which is the positioning the flavoured beer category occupies — something with more character than a standard lager but more manageable than a mixed drink. The 330ml bottle format is practical for the occasions the beer is designed for: outdoor events, gatherings, situations where bottles need to travel easily.
How Amigos Tequila Flavoured Beer [ 330ml x 24 Bottles ] is drunk at home
Cheers, mate! (CHEERZ-MAIT) — the British all-purpose toast, delivered at the pub and at the kitchen table with equal ease. Bottoms up! and Down the hatch! are the more festive variants, appearing when the pace of the evening has already been established and the round is moving quickly. For a tequila-flavoured beer at a gathering rather than a sit-down meal, the latter two tend to appear more than the former.
In the UK, Amigos belongs to the pre-drinks occasion and the informal party rather than the Friday pub session or the Premier League viewing afternoon, where a standard lager is the more natural choice. That said, it holds its own alongside the pub-grub register — a bottle of Amigos alongside fish and chips eaten from the paper on a summer evening is a combination that works because the citrus note of the beer and the salt of the chips find the same counterpoint that a squeeze of lemon over the batter does. A ploughman’s lunch — bread, cheddar, pickle — provides the same salt-and-fat anchor that any lager benefits from, and the sweet finish of the Amigos sits comfortably against the sharpness of a good pickle. The Sunday roast belongs to a more traditional beer, but a gathering that ends with Amigos in the evening started somewhere, and Amigos is a reasonable answer to where.
How to drink it in Japan
Amigos is a warm-season beer in Japan — June through September — when the humidity makes something cold, citrus-forward, and relatively sweet the most natural choice at a party that has moved outdoors. It is also well-suited to the informal gatherings that mark the British calendar in Japan: Bonfire Night on November 5, when outdoor events call for something with a shorter conversation attached than a proper British ale, or any gathering where the crowd is mixed and a flavoured beer crosses more preferences than a standard lager.
At 7-Eleven, try it alongside a lime-flavoured corn snack or lightly salted potato chips — the salt and the mild acidity of the lime flavouring respond to the citrus and tequila note of the Amigos in the same way that bar snacks always sit alongside a beer with strong flavour character. For a more composed pairing at home, serve it with chicken karaage finished with a squeeze of lime — the fried exterior and the citrus note of the lime find a direct counterpart in the tequila and citrus character of the Amigos, the sweet finish providing the close that the acidity of the lime begins. It is a pairing that asks nothing complicated of either element.
Tequila-flavoured beers from the UK are not a category that appears in Tokyo’s import shops with any consistency. By the case from Omori Mart — 330ml × 24 bottles — the per-bottle cost is accessible and the case format suits a gathering where the beer needs to go around a room rather than a table.
Get Amigos Tequila Flavoured Beer [ 330ml x 24 Bottles ] delivered in Japan
Amigos Tequila Flavoured Beer [ 330ml x 24 Bottles ] is available from Omori Mart, delivered nationwide across Japan.
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Rakuten and Amazon Japan do not carry this label. Omori Mart stocks the UK imports that go beyond the standard export portfolio — including the ones made for the party rather than the pub.
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Cheers, mate at a Derbyshire party in the 2010s when someone first put tequila flavouring in a beer, and kanpai at a Tokyo rooftop in July — pale gold, citrus upfront, sweet at the finish, and exactly the right bottle for the occasion that doesn’t require a glass.
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