Presidente is the staple beer of the Dominican Republic. Being the am-beer-ssador of a tropical Caribbean nation is no small job — people expect coconut-infused beach life to envelop them as soon as they pop the lid — but Presidente has long lived up to the challenge.

Back in 1929, a US businessman named Charles H. Wanzer collaborated with other business partners to create the Presidente brewery in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Six years later, the brewery was putting out some of the finest beers in the hemisphere. By the 1960s, they decided to switch from dark beers to pilsners.

This move turned out to be the right one. Today, we recognize the Presidente pilsner as one of the most delicious beers ever to emerge from the Caribbean. It now ships to twenty countries and counting, and it’s unlikely to stop anytime soon. So pop open a bottle. While palm trees and unicorns may not spring out of the bottle, a delicious light beer will.