Red Stripe

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

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

Score says it all. No remarkable color or aroma here. Texture is a little thick for a macro pale lager, but that doesn’t make this one any easier to swallow.

Pours a pale yellow with a quickly disappearing white head. Aroma is very very faint and is mostly grain. Flavor is very sweet with some malts and a light skunk at the finish. Smooth, but overall not a good beer.

500ml can. Brewed by Moosehead in New Brunswick. Pours a pale yellow/orange with a large white head. Thin nose, but mostly corn, sweet malt, and straw. The taste is heavy on sweet malt, with minimal bitterness. Watery stuff. Metallic bitterness that pokes through the sweetness. This doesn’t need to exist.

i think the best thing about this beer is the commercials from a couple years ago. when i first turned 21, i liked this better than the ’big three’ beers (i.e., bud, coors, miller) because it was sweeter. when my wife picked up a case the other day, i realized i hadn’t ever rated it. that being said, i remember it tasting much better. it pours a nice golden straw color with a decent white head that settles down to a nice thin coating on the beer; light lacing. lots of bubbles. nose is fruity and sweet with honey and light floral hop fragrance prominent. flavor is a little bit more like malt liquor than i remember it being. it’s sweet, malty, soapy, and watery, and the finish is corny and bland. i’m sure it would go great with some authentic jerk chicken or another jamaican dish, but as it stands, i don’t think i’m that impressed.

bottled, not a fan, this beer is overpriced because its an import. I wouldn’t pay domestic prices for. It not a smooth taste and the bitterness doesn’t have a clean taste. Not recommended

Can LCBO Pours greenish yellow, a little hazy, with large slightly off white head white head. Aroma faint, grainy, a little skunky. Light bodied and highly carbonated. Taste sweet and inoffensive, but not distinctive. I have had this in the Caribbean and remember it tasting it better than this. Rating reflects this memory.

Pours an amber colour, very sweet and sickly taste, slightly metallic, not my kind of thing really

A standard if unnofenisve pale lager, quite sweet overall lacking in finish, malty and sweet, some straw flavours.