Carib Shandy (Sorrel)

Brewed by Carib Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Champs-Fleurs, Trinidad & Tobago

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

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red. aroma of cinnamon. flavors of melted caramel and hard cinnamon candy. light and sticky. sweet.

Now, I wouldnt call this beer, however... Cinamon and fruit aroma. Looks like a fruit soda and tastes like raspberry/cinamon soda.

Looks like strawberry soda. Smells like licorice and cinnamon. Tastes like cinnamon candy and medicine. Just as disappointed as I expected to be.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pleasant drink with some medicinal flavour. Drinkable stuff. I like shandy.

Bottle - well As a fan of fruit beers and lambics I was willing to give this one a shot and sadly it disappointed. It pours a clear cherry Kool-aid red and smells like licorice red hits (cinnamon). The taste is a sweet with the slight burn of the sorrel. Very artificial. I’d say this is more closely aligned with the a fore mentioned Kool-aid then lager.

It’s just so red! Pours artificial red from bottle without much head. The nose is of cinnamon hard candy. There’s no element of this that tastes like beer except beer is listed as the second ingredient right after water. The taste is pure sugar. It’s like naughty, naughty kool aid. No finish to speak of. Surely this is one 50 worst beers in the world.

UPDATED: JUN 26, 2011 Ha ha hah! Delicious spicey red little round hot cinny artificial candy, just like that hard stuff with the same color. Sugary aroma, spicey too. One of the weirdest ’beers’ I’ve had for a long time, this is more like a quality artificial fruit drink laced with barely detectable beer hints, if any. Very refreshing yet I worry about the sugar buzz. No bitter finish what so ever, soda pop. 1 point 2 percent, eh? Friendly interesting fizzy fruit drink. Found this fun in a dirty little way.

Bottle from Half Time. It’s damn red. It pours red with a foamy bright pink head. It smells like a combo of spearmint and tobacco. Or some sort of chewing gum. Beeman’s? Rather thin body with not much carbonation. The flavor really does remind of Beeman’s.Which I haven’t had in many a year. The finish is rather unbeer. Craft beer it’s not. The sorrel is artificial, as is the color.

This is probably the weirdest looking beer I have ever tried. It pours a bright, clear flame-red with a decent pinkish head that doesn’t stick around. Flavor is strongly of ginger and slightly sweet. Nice, but I like my beers to smell like beer. Flavor is rather sweet, more like soda pop than beer, but there is just a bit of malt. Texture is thick like beer, smooth and fizzy. I was willing to give this a try, but I prefer beer that tastes like beer.

#2700. Luminous red-pink like no other. Looks and swills like unset jelly, headless and heavy with sugar. Simply STUNNING Bazooka chews aroma; flavour Cinnamon Grahams including the CARDBOARD box, Jamaican ginger cake, Irish Moss-based virility drink. Believe me, I’ve choked back the very dregs of European shandypops, but NEVER, not once have I found anything quite as.....well, enjoyable as this spicy little beast. It’s not a beer or anything like one, and it doesn’t pretend to be. Fuck knows how it qualifies for inclusion on RB, but it’s certainly brightened up my evening. Un-guilty pleasure.

10 oz. Can with thanks to RCL! Pours candy apple red with a light ring of pink around the edge. First Smell reveals some serious cinnamon...second brings forth some cherry rock candy memories. Very fruity drink....I emphasize DRINK. Not really much of a beer so to speak. Lots of fruit with cherry and light cinnamon notes. Really, for what it is, its not bad...Beer? Not really.Should be better classed as a low alcohol.