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Red Stripe

Percentile
8
overall
Brewed by Desnoes and Geddes (Diageo PLC)
Style: Pale Lager

Kingston, Jamaica

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
14522.2/5.02.21/5.04.7%62.5Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
First brewed in 1938.
It is a light alcohol drink with not too strong bitterness but rather soft taste; therefore, it's easy to drink it up.
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BCMike22 (79), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/513/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Right out of the bottle, no need to pour. Malty and sweet, very simple beer. Not everything has to be complex. Good drinking beer, but don’t waste your time on a tasting.


bochi23 (90), USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/58/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Summed up best with the review "nothing to write home about". It is a pale lager in the american macro style. Not awful, just not very inspired either. I’m sure if I were on the beach in Jamaica i would think this is the greatest beer ever!


 BeerFanDan17 (610), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
0.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/53/101/51/20
Mar 31, 2008  
Hooray beer. The Jamaican lager is smooth and roughly bitter. Pours light golden and has a distinct character. Must’ve drank 50 of them on draft during my honeymoon in Ocho Rios.


 NobleSquirrel (1105), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/58/20
Mar 30, 2008  
sweet and malty. quite simplistic. Better than most pales, though nothing to write home about.


 wacohoover (100), Garland, Texas, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/57/103/514/20
Mar 27, 2008  
Nothing wrong with this beer at all. While it’s not very complex I find it to be very satisfying. It starts pretty average in taste but develops into a good malty flavor in the end. I prefer this from the bottle rather than a glass, and the only time I’ve had this that was good on draft was in London. There’s something that feels good about drinking a Red Stripe to me, even with all the recent really strong advertising for it.


 KimJohansen (6806), Copenhagen V, Denmark
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/510/20
Mar 24, 2008  
Clear golden with medium short lasting head. Sweet aroma with notes of malt and corn. Sweet malty flavor with mild bitter finish.


 Skinnyviking (4142), Copenhagen, Denmark
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/53/102/55/20
Mar 24, 2008  
Bottle. Small fluffy and quickly disappearing white had. Clear light yellow body. Weak corn like aroma. Flavor also very sweet and corn like with little hops bitterness, low carbonation and a short aftertaste. Watery weak, sweet and boring. Waste of time.


 scoobysnak (249), Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Mar 22, 2008  
Nothing special but not bad or inoffensive in any way. Not bad but just really run of the mill, better than the big three though.



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