Star (Sierra Leone)
Sierra Leone Brewery in Freetown, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.16
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STAR is brewed from the finest natural ingredients and a national icon of Sierra Leone since 1961. It has always been first in innovation and is known for the slogan ‘Shine Shine Borbor’ and ‘Shine On”. Using the latest technology, STAR is locally brewed and of international quality.
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3.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 3
Overall 3.5
One of the many 'national' versions of Star in Africa, this time from Sierra Leone, locally brewed to the recipe of the Nigerian original (developed in 1946 by Heineken and the UAC); thanks tderoeck for the sample. Seems capable of producing a frothy snow white head but my sample did not show a lot of enthusiasm in that field anymore; pale yellow golden blonde robe. Aroma of dry cereals, green tea, dried thyme, cooked rice, wet straw. Neutral onset, slick rice-like 'glueishness', plastery yet thin and grainy, with a 'sweaty' note at the back as well as something lightly sulfuric, but hardly any hop bitterness at all. Below par - but I was not expecting anything better than this, to be honest (considering that even fresh Star, albeit in some of the other 'national' variants I had, was all but satisfying, mildly put).
Tried
on 17 Jan 2026
at 01:33
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
19/XII/25 - sample from a 33cl bottle, shared @ Tim’s Big Country Tick Tasting And More (home), BB: May/####? (2025-1404) Thanks to Grzegorz for the trade!
Clear peach orange coloured beer, no head. Aroma: malty, lots of ripe banana, sweet impression, grains, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, sugary, very yeasty, hay, grains, banana, very sweet. Aftertaste: banana flavoured candy, yeasty, sugary, caramel, gentle bitterness, oxidized, some cardboard, meh, not too bad.
Clear peach orange coloured beer, no head. Aroma: malty, lots of ripe banana, sweet impression, grains, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, sugary, very yeasty, hay, grains, banana, very sweet. Aftertaste: banana flavoured candy, yeasty, sugary, caramel, gentle bitterness, oxidized, some cardboard, meh, not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:45
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
19 December 2025. Country Tasting @ Tim’s - thanks for hosting, cheers to the whole crew!
A: clear golden, no head.
A: cardboard, yeast, straw.
T: wet grain, cardboard, yeast.
F: grain, oxidised notes.
P: light body, watery texture, average carbonation.
Oxidised yet inoffensive.
A: clear golden, no head.
A: cardboard, yeast, straw.
T: wet grain, cardboard, yeast.
F: grain, oxidised notes.
P: light body, watery texture, average carbonation.
Oxidised yet inoffensive.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2025
at 13:52
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Panda thanks to Cloin and his Pale Lager dealers. Pours hazy orange gold with a thin white head. Aroma is cardboard, malt, hint of apple, dough. Taste is damp cardboard, malt, hint of apple. OK for what it is.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2021
at 16:35
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 2.5
Country scope panda, thanks to SHIG, 04/07/21. Clear golden with a thin white cap. Nose is dusty fruit esters, corn husk, vegetal notes, cereals. Taste comprises pale malts, grains, cereals, paper, dusty fruit notes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Passable country tick kind of affair.
Tried
on 04 Jul 2021
at 14:50