Red Stripe

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

Golden color with a moderate head that measures about a fingers length. Aroma is not all too strong, slight sweet smell. Flavor is not much, a bit of sweetness cancels some of the bitterness making it easy to drink. Hopefully Jamaica has better beer than this.

i’ve had this both in a bottle and on tap numerous times when i have visted jamaica (last trip january of this year). stay at all inclusives, you drink a lot of this. pours yellow with a medium head. mild nose with traces of grain. the flavor is also light (but the commercial description sets one up for a ’soft taste’ in the beer). reasonably carbonated. refreshing when snoozing on the beach in negril. while this beer is anything but a winner, it is supremely inoffensive and i have drunk gallons of it in short periods of time with out blacking out (as far as i know). and i look forward to drinking a lot more of it next january while avoiding the chicago winter.

Bottle. An Ok drinking beer. A simple tasting beer. Mild, easy to drink, good for parties. Kind of like a generic soda that no one complains about.

Yo tengo una version inglesa pero no es un cerveza muy rica, osease no es jamaicana

Bottle from my roommate. Poured a clear yellow color with little head. I really didn’t get much of anything on the aroma, perhaps a bit of light malts. Taste is about as bland as the aroma. Light malts and watery flavor. It was easy to drink, but so is water. I do like the grenade bottles though, they are fun to throw and now our living room is covered in shards of glass.

12oz bottle. Yellow with no head after a second or two. Stinky veggie aroma. Similar taste. Definitely no better than cheap american lager, and way more expensive. Not a good combo. No cleanliness, ehh.

not good. I don’t really understand why anyone would pay for this over a Budweiser or something (I would much rather have an MGD or Lebatt Blue), perhaps its just because of the bottles and funny commercials. Little to no aroma, like a simple light and cheap lager. Looks like a normal cheap lager: little to no color in appearance, and a minute and fading head. Watery nothing flavor, except the hint of sweet burnt rubber. Palate was no different than dirty water: light and uninteresting/unappealing. I used to really enjoy these when I first started drinking beer, but I couln’t even finish the one my friend gave me last night.

12oz grenade. Buttered sweet corn on the nose. Pours bright, pee yellow with a thick and creamy white head. Sweet and steely on the tongue. A touch of grassy hops. Cardboard and paper. Buttery and metallic. Heavier on the palate than expected. Unless I’m in Jamaica, I’ll pass thank you very much.