Our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown has us seeing ghosts. Back in the day a ghost was an apparition, a past person now dead but restless, manifesting to the living, deceased but not desisting, causing havoc and in general scaring the bejesus out of those of us unfortunate enough to be haunted. These days it means a tasty taco or a way of ignoring someone on social media, neither being particularly frightening.
This Ghost Ghost Ghost Taco Cerveza from Market Brewing * is what they call, and I quote an “unauthentic Mexican lager”. Seeing that Tecate, Sol and Dos Equis are owned by Heineken; and Anheuser-Busch InBev owns Corona, Modelo, and Estrella, I’m not sure what would classify as authentic Mexican these days, maybe tequila? **
Sure, you stick a lime in a Corona and the SUBTLE flavouring makes it what it is. But when a brewer starts adding lime to the beer, that’s a slippery subtleness slope. For me, when it comes to lime in my beer, a touch too much is much too much. Market tell us that this beer has “a hint of lime”.
A clear golden bubbly presentation, as headless as the Dullahan. *** The aroma is all lime, nothing else is getting through. First taste is a fizzy limey malt with nothing on the finish, no crisp just clean. It has a very mild bitter aftertaste. If they are trying to imitate a corona with a real lime that is a tough row to hoe. The lime is not a submerged slice subtle. And there is no let up to this lime, it’s in there for the long haul.
An OK light, it does have flavour I’ll give it that, unfortunately more lime than malt leaves it a bit off balance. A little let up on the lime would be lovely, but that was not to be. This Ghost is not a slimer it’s a limer.
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