Ideally I would like to try a proper Cuban craft beer, made with love, but I think my chances of getting my hands on one are about as likely as my becoming a witch doctor. So I have to settle for... Cubanero! Which I found at the astonishingly large and well-stocked Warners on the Bay bottleshop on the New South Wales central coast.
At first glance, everything about this beer reeks of "export tourist crap that the locals wouldn't touch if their head was on fire". The silly name, the cheesy cartoonish picture of a pirate on the front, it's all a bad sign. And drinking it... well, it tastes like a generic export beer too. Just another inoffensive medium-light bodied lager, goes down ok with some salty or spicy food, but not much interesting going on here. The Cubans can probably make better beer than this, but I had to take my chances when I saw this one.
Name: Cubanero
Country of production: Republic of Cuba
Style: Lager
Taste: Mild generic lager
Cost: around AU$5 per bottle
Availability in AU: Low
Cred: Medium
My score: 5 out of 10 bizarre trade embargoes
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