Tecate six pack chilled bottles

The custom of squeezing a lime into Mexican beer began with Tecate beer. The original Master Brewer was of Scottish descent (last name Lorimer), who brought the idea from Great Britain where sailors would be given limes with their daily ration of grog to stave off scurvy (this is where the expression "limey" came from.

Tecate and Tecate Light are popular pale Lagers named after the city of Tecate, Baja California, where they were first produced. Tecate has the highest canned beverage sales of any import to the U.S.