Red Stripe

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

reminds me of budweiser as far as being a very non-complex lager. usually a skunky aroma but every now and again you’ll find a freshy! yeast flavor that finish’s with a slight tang. Note: This is intended for the white sand beach’s of jamaica.

copper color almost no head, wow i could make a crass innuendo there, but i will let it pass. sweet aroma that is somewht fruity. taste is one sided corny tasting....something is wrong here. i am at the saucer in addison, there are beautiful women all over, i am with one of my best friends talking beer, and life stuff. why am i drinking this crap? just because i haven’t had it before????? i knew it would suck, but i had to know how much. F you ratebeer you have ruined my night. the hot blonde in the tube top that has the coke addled eyes is no longer appealing to me the silicone bruneette with the obvious daddy issues is unimportant. this burns a bit and has a sandy taste, this is no bueno. i am surrounded by a great scene but all i am worried about is the beer. damnit, Kristy pour me a DFH 90 minute i need a good beer. the bartender smiles as she sets down the DFH. as she turns i inhale the wonderful fragrance of this good beer and check out her sweet ass. things are good again. die red stripe die.

On tap at the Red Lion, Kings Heath, Birmingham. I've had this a few times before the days of RB, but this was the first time on draught. Surprisingly decent - fresh, light and predictably clean. Fairly rich and malty too. Equally starnge, this was actually pretty creamy, leaving speckled froth down the inside of the glass.

Hooray beer! 33cl bottle, just like the pic. I drank this on the beach, Andros Island, the Bahamas. Maybe it’s the proximity to Jamaica, maybe it was the right place, whatever, but I liked this much better than I ever did in the states. Pale yellow with a white head. Sweet malty nose. Sweet grain flavors, light sweet malt. Medium soft body. OK, it’s still a ’Stripe...

This bubbly yellow beer poured with a decent white head and a pale malt aroma. It’s a standard warm weather drink, with a refreshing light watery malt taste and a hint of hops at the finish.

Forgot to rate this one. Sampled can @ Gatecrasher, Sheffield. Thin watery lager without much merit. Still, it was there.

Grassy, grainy, catty aromas from a honey-yellow beer with a white head and soft effervescense. Flavor wasn’t bad... a bit bland but with some lemon sourness balancing a sweet honey. Watery palate... so it went down easy enough.

The bottle reads, "For over 75 years Red Stripe has embodied the spirit, rhythm and pulse of Jamaica and its people." If I was Jamiacan, I might get offended because it would entail that I didn’t look or smell too great and that I was rather boring.

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Corn and malt aroma. Smoother then the other lagers I have had, little noticable carbination. Real watered down, just like most lagers. Might as well rate it though.