Red Stripe

Brewed by Desnoes and Geddes (Diageo PLC)
Style: Pale Lager
Kingston, Jamaica

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Well, when you go to Jamaica, you take what you can get. Pours a light golden color with a white head. Not much in the aroma beyond some sweetness and the dry earthiness of the lager yeast and touch of hops. On the palate, the beer feels nice and full, but the flavor is lacking.

Bottle. Golden beer with a whitish head. Light malt aroma. Malt flavor. Medium bodied. Malt lingers. Simple.

Drinking this from the source in Jamaica and it is mostly like any other largely produced pale lager. Corn heavy in the taste, a bit of sweet malt, and tingly carbonation on the tongue. Meh.

From bottle. Pours straw yellow with a small white head. Aromas are malt, hay and grass. Very low carbonation and very watery. OK if very cold. Hey, but the commercials are fun.

Clear light yellow pour with small white head. Aroma of corn, hay, skunky and wet cardboard. Taste of metallic corn, straw and sugar cane. High carbonation. Nasty.

Smoothest drinking beer you can find. Aroma is, hmm, kind of like water in that it smells refreshing if that makes sense. I dunno. Nice quaint bottle too.

The color is the standard clear light yellow of pale lagers with a medium white head that disappears quickly, and the aroma smells like dough yeast and the standard smell of alcohol in beer, which is almost a hint skunky. The taste is slightly sour, a touch salty, and a touch sweet, which isn’t bad but also isn’t impressive; also, the palate combines a medium body, thin texture, lively carbonation, and an abrupt finish.

Bottle. Pale yellow pour with tall, white head. Pilsner, yeast and skunk aromas. Grain and slight skunk taste.

A boireau plus chaud de l’été. Désaltérante mais sans caractere. Pas desagreable pour autant.

Only good thing about it is the bottle. Beer has a very bitter aftertaste, although not bad as its going down