Beer mix review: Red Girl (3.9% Germany: The Bremen Beer Company)

The Red Girl is a beer mix, more specifically a mixture of lager beer and ginger ale, the ratio being 80-20. It's produced by, and currently the only product of The Bremen Beer Company, an unknown German brewery located in Bremen. Beer mixes are shunned upon by beer connoisseurs but since I only focus on the taste of the beverage, you never know...maybe some day I'll be introduced to a beer mix that is actually really great. Let's see if today's my lucky day!

Taste: The Red Girl tastes precisely as expected. It's a mixture of beer and ginger ale, and although the ratio is 80-20 the aroma of ginger is surprisingly dominant. It offers a thin aroma of malt which is unfortunately surpassed by the taste of sweet ginger. Thus, the Red Girl ends up tasting like a strange beer ginger ale lemonade.

Overall, the Red Girl isn't the beer mix that will change everyone's opinions about them for the better. However, if you're into ginger ale and basic lagers, it's definitely an easy-to-drink mixture of both. Not bad, but not great either.

55 Above average

Beer mix review: Foster's Radler (2.0% Australia/Finland: Heineken/Hartwall)

Foster's Radler is a combination of lemonade and Foster's beer, the ratio being 60:40. Thus, in no way can it be considered beer and the review is made in comparing it to other beer mixes (or refreshment beers as the Foster's company likes to call it). The beer selection in Finnish supermarkets is quite thin and therefore the Radler is a welcomed release. Foster's is brewed in Finland by Hartwall, and therefore the company is also in charge of manufacturing the Foster's Radler. With no expectations of a mind-blowing connoiseuric experience, I enjoyed a can of Radler and was pleasantly surprised.

Taste: The first impression introduces a taste of lemonade, with a hint of sourness. It is sweet enough but not too sweet and it is actually surprisingly close to the taste of Finnish grape long drinks. After this the drink finishes with a very faint taste of lager beer, and therefore can justifiably be called a lemonade beer.

Not the right choice for people who want to enjoy beer, nor for people who want to get inebriated. However, a good choice if you want something refreshing and enjoy the taste of lemonade with a pleasant, albeit weak aftertaste of beer. This being said, I personally enjoyed the taste a lot and the Radler is really refreshing when served ice cold.

65 Above average