Beer of the Weekend #112: Red Oval Classic Lager
The second beer this weekend is Red Oval Classic Lager brewed by the Minhas Craft Brewery of Monroe, Wisconsin.
Red Oval, yet another Trader Joe’s exclusive from America’s Dairyland, was the second beer of the weekend last week, too, but after spending an entire day in LA I didn’t feel like writing another BotW post last Saturday. I just wanted to drink.
Serving type: Six 12-ounce bottles. No freshness date; only a cryptic batch number, which doesn’t help at all.
Appearance: Poured a clean light straw yellow. Two fingers of white head developed and slowly dissipated to leave a nice foamy cap…which then dissipated to a ring around the edge.
Smell: Major adjunct corn aroma, a sweet floral scent, and not much else.
Taste: More of the same from the smell: adjuncts, but sweeter than I expected from the smell.
Drinkability: It’s nothing complex, and it’s nothing special, but it’ll pass as beer.
Fun facts about Red Oval:
-Price: $2.99/sixer at TJ’s. I kid you not — six brews for just under three bucks. Simpler Times, I saw, was also the same price. Not a bad price for such decent brew.
-Serving temperature: 35-40ºF.
-Alcohol content: Unknown.
-Food pairings: BA recommends barbecue, Indian, Latin American, Thai, peppery cheeses (like Monterey and Pepper Jack), and general shellfish.
-Don’t ask about the name, or anything else about Red Oval, because there is no other information about it.
The Quiet Man’s grade: C-.
Red Oval, yet another Trader Joe’s exclusive from America’s Dairyland, was the second beer of the weekend last week, too, but after spending an entire day in LA I didn’t feel like writing another BotW post last Saturday. I just wanted to drink.
Serving type: Six 12-ounce bottles. No freshness date; only a cryptic batch number, which doesn’t help at all.
Appearance: Poured a clean light straw yellow. Two fingers of white head developed and slowly dissipated to leave a nice foamy cap…which then dissipated to a ring around the edge.
Smell: Major adjunct corn aroma, a sweet floral scent, and not much else.
Taste: More of the same from the smell: adjuncts, but sweeter than I expected from the smell.
Drinkability: It’s nothing complex, and it’s nothing special, but it’ll pass as beer.
Fun facts about Red Oval:
-Price: $2.99/sixer at TJ’s. I kid you not — six brews for just under three bucks. Simpler Times, I saw, was also the same price. Not a bad price for such decent brew.
-Serving temperature: 35-40ºF.
-Alcohol content: Unknown.
-Food pairings: BA recommends barbecue, Indian, Latin American, Thai, peppery cheeses (like Monterey and Pepper Jack), and general shellfish.
-Don’t ask about the name, or anything else about Red Oval, because there is no other information about it.
The Quiet Man’s grade: C-.
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