Cesu Cuba

Brewed by Cesu Alus Daritava (Olvi)
Style: Pale Lager
Cesis, Latvia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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500ml Bottle - Golden with a white head. Grainy aroma with a hint of milk and weetabix. Sweet and malty taste with corn and grain. If this is Anti-Imperial beer, give me Imperialism every time!

UPDATED: DEC 29, 2011 Early rating - 2005. Bottled, gift from friend. Golden color, white, head. Aroma, grass, corn. Taste, grain, malt, grass. Short bittersweet finish.

Bottle. 6 months past ’best before’. Pours a pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet and fruity with notes of hay and honey (in an oxidized-kind of way). Slight notes of cooked vegetables as well. Flavour is sweet with notes of hay, hops and honey as well as some metallic notes. Sweetish, mildly bitter finish. Better than I had expected – should probably try this fresh at some point. 17.03.11.

Pours a clear light yellow. Aroma is honey, old hops and some sweet malts. Taste add some mineral citrus water and some metal in the aftertaste.

NOt as nasty as you may think. It was strange to find a beer called like that in Latvia speciall after the revulsion they have against communism. They even put Ché GUevara in some avertisments.

Bottle. "Cuba Anti-imperial Beer". Clear golden with a thin bubbly soy head. Grainy aroma. Grainy malty aroma, bit hoppy. Short bitterish finish.

Note - I believe this is the same as A Le Coq Cuba. 500ml bottle. Light pissy colour. Fortunately the aroma matches that completely. Funny plastic dodgy taste, with added surprise nastiness. Weird "did I really swallow that?" finish.

Bottled. Pale yellow, no head. No aroma. Thin and dryish. Empty commercial crap without flavour. Anti imperial stout perhaps?

big brown plastic bottle(2000ml). -Cuba Antiimperial Beer. Pale golden coloured, small white head. Aroma of corn, hay and stale vegetables with strong diacetyl notes.

2l plastic bottle shared with Ozujsko (thanks!)

The society says we have to drink good beer ! "No way" I say! Pure nonsense! I don’t want to fit in a certain social model ! I’ll rather drink a olive oil coloured beer ! Head on a beer is clearly an imperialist invention. This beer hath none ! The aroma is pungent, so that we can revel in it oily, cardboardy, sourish, albeit slightly fruity magnificence ! Imperialist conventions dictate that beer should taste full. And no, this beer doesn’t ! It tastes weak, like imperialist morals ! Cardboardy, like the signs our protestors carry, bitter, like the imperialists when they realize that there is NOTHING that can change our minds !

I made the right choice, and didn’t actually spend money on this. It certainly isn’t the worst beer I’ve had, but it’s one of the funniest. I’m sure that this sells well with the dumber part of the Latvian "alternative" kiddies. Ah, well.