Pachanga

Pachanga is a year-round Mexican-style lager from Sun King Brewing, an Indiana brewery that also packs it in its Lager Box variety twelve-pack.

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Specs

Brewery Description

Mexican style lager with a crisp malt flavor and thirst-quenching character.

Punctuation lightly normalized.

The brewery's own listing shows only name, style and ABV, so this is the brewer description quoted in the Beer & Brewing review. Source: Beer & Brewing: Pachanga review

Tasting Notes

Mexican style lager with a crisp malt flavor and thirst-quenching character.

Source: beerandbrewing.com

Ingredients

The retailer’s Pachanga listing identifies the hop variety shown in the specs table. The subtle lime note describes flavor; no lime addition, yeast or malt varieties were verified.

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Mexican-Style Light Lager calls for a clean fermentation profile, a very light to light body with a dry finish, 3.2 to 4.2 percent ABV, 8 to 17 IBU and a straw to pale gold color (SRM 2 to 3). The brewery's 4.5% ABV and the published 24 IBU both sit above those ranges; the older 4.2% figure would sit at the top of the ABV range.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Sun King Brewing is in Fishers, IN. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: In planning.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website.

Related

• Brewery: Sun King Brewing
• Hop varieties: Bravo

Links

• Target: Pachanga
• Beer page on brewery site
• Sun King Brewing
• Sun King: blog
• Sun King: 2025 Indiana Brewers Cup results
• Beer & Brewing: Pachanga review
• Untappd (hand-read citation): Pachanga
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, beerandbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, target.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.

Research Notes

• Field pass 2026-10-13: The matching Target Pachanga listing names Bravo hops. Its 4.2% ABV disagrees with the existing 4.5% from the brewery beer list, which is retained. The separate Dry Hopped Pachanga variant names Amarillo and is excluded.
• ABV conflict: the brewery's current beer list says 4.5%, Beer & Brewing says 4.2% and Untappd says 4.3%; the brewery figure is used. Beer & Brewing and Untappd agree on 24 IBU; the brewery lists none.
• The brewery's dedicated page for the beer (linked from its beer list) and its Lager Box page both returned 404, so the beer list is the beer url.
• Untappd says the beer won US Open medals for International Lager in 2019 and 2023 and a bronze for Light Lager at the 2020 GABF.
• Style label conflict: the brewery's July 2025 post calls Pachanga "our German Leichtbier" when reporting a 1st place at the 2025 Indiana Brewers Cup, while its beer list calls it Mexican-Style Lager.
• No 2026 GABF post was found on the brewery blog.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Pachanga lists 4.2% ABV, 24 IBU, style "American-Style Pilsener" (entry last modified 2020-05-02). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewer's description in the Craft Beer and Brewing review is recorded as tasting notes.