I have been trying it a few times (just because I bought 6 bottles at the time in the supermarket), but finally now I found the time to write something about it. I wouldn’t call Cubanista a beer, even though in its description it says “rum-flavoured beer”.
I’m a little bit biased and spoiled when it comes to beers, and wouldn’t have great expectations about his, but I’m curious and I like to try new things and experiment.
So I guess since Heineken brought “Desperados” - a tequila flavoured beer - on the market, AB Inbev could not stay behind and the originally Belgian beer giant came up with this Rum flavoured alternative. On the first sight one would say, hey that’s original, but in the end it refers to Mexico (and not to Cuba, what one would expect hearing the name), just like Desperados does; and just like Desperados it doesn’t have anything to do with Mexico. It might be not even reaching the American continent, cause it wouldn’t be able to compete with similar tasting beers like Bud Lime. Just saying.
Cubanista has got 5,9% alcohol, so one wouldn’t get drunk from it as quickly as from drinking mojito’s, it has a little sweet and at the same time sour taste to lessen the thirst. Or like their own marketing team says “…with a fresh taste of citrus, orange zest and lime, accentuated by the aroma of caramalised cane sugar and treacle”. Just make sure you drink it quickly and ice cold, otherwise it’s getting sticky in the mouth.
Who has been reading previous posts I’ve been writing about beers, knows that I seem to have a kind of a glass fetish; so it wouldn’t surprise you that I’ve been wondering what for a glass I should drink this from. Actually… I did wonder… only just for a moment… This beer is something one drinks at the beach or at a warm summer evening on the terrace, like I did ;-) to lessen first thirst and to liberate the way to something more enjoyable. #aliveandthriving
I guess it could be a hit as well in a club, where the the skull on the bottle lights up under UV-light. Let’s consider it the same trash as Bacardi Breezer 20 years ago, but with even more marketing possibilities. Or let’s be polite and call it “a hype”.I don’t think I’d buy it again, or just maybe when I’m in a club and would like to draw some attention on a #BeerSaturday ;-)
