Baja Bound Mexican Lager
Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.
- From:
- Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 10.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 04, 2021
- Added:
- Apr 29, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can, a single from their current 'Adventure' mixed pack. I have never heard of the Baja 500 in Mexico, but, okay.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves absolutely zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it rapidly evaporates.
It smells of bready and biscuity cereal malt, a bit of phenolic yeastiness, a hint of wet stones after those summer rainstorms, and very, very faint earthy, musty, and herbal hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, cornmeal, a subtle minerality, and more well-understated musty, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-placating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing in particular spoiling the party at this exact juncture. It finishes a tad off-dry, the malt pretty much limping out the back door.
Overall - well, this certainly doesn't resemble those other 'Mexican lagers' of dubious renown, in that it has flavour, and is not at all skunky. Better ingredients, or a more sensible packaging format? Who the hell knows? All I know, is that I am enjoying this enough on my day off, in the heat, waiting for the apparently threatening thunderstorms to arrive. Life could be worse, I suppose.
Jun 04, 2021This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves absolutely zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it rapidly evaporates.
It smells of bready and biscuity cereal malt, a bit of phenolic yeastiness, a hint of wet stones after those summer rainstorms, and very, very faint earthy, musty, and herbal hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, cornmeal, a subtle minerality, and more well-understated musty, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-placating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing in particular spoiling the party at this exact juncture. It finishes a tad off-dry, the malt pretty much limping out the back door.
Overall - well, this certainly doesn't resemble those other 'Mexican lagers' of dubious renown, in that it has flavour, and is not at all skunky. Better ingredients, or a more sensible packaging format? Who the hell knows? All I know, is that I am enjoying this enough on my day off, in the heat, waiting for the apparently threatening thunderstorms to arrive. Life could be worse, I suppose.
Rated by Mikechuk from Canada (BC)
3.03/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.03/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Pour is golden , head dissipates quickly. More reminiscent of a euro lager than a Mexican...definitely drinkable
May 23, 2020
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