Stag
Carib Brewery in Champs Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.58
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A helmet and headset can’t muffle the sound of your heart pounding in your chest. Your gloved-hands infuse themselves to the wheel and won’t let go until it’s over. Your co-driver makes one final adjustment to the course and looks at you with a grin and a thumbs-up. “We are good to go.” he says. Adrenaline floods every muscle but your foot remains steady on the accelerator. The engine is roaring but soon it will sound like a swarm of ten thousand bees.
Go! Go! Go! Every turn of the wheel and every shift of the gear in sync with the flurry of your co-driver’s instructions. Nothing but a blur of green on either side. You can feel loose asphalt under the tyres being strewn in every direction as they maneuver every corner with the screech of a ‘banshee’. Nothing but dust and white smoke behind you and a certainty of victory in front of you because yours is the best time for this and every stage. At the finish line, you step slowly out your car, helmet in hand, wanting a Stag to celebrate and to quiet your mind. It’s the only beverage for a man who is both a hero and a formidable racing adversary.
Stag is a European style lager with a distinct, robust flavour and a lingering but gentle aftertaste. Both its taste and its name are indicative of what true masculinity is – unforgettable strength and character. It appeals to the male consumer who embodies these characteristics and who appreciates a beer that reminds him and everyone around him of exactly who he is.
Specifications:
Alcohol by Volume: 5.4 – 5.9%
Go! Go! Go! Every turn of the wheel and every shift of the gear in sync with the flurry of your co-driver’s instructions. Nothing but a blur of green on either side. You can feel loose asphalt under the tyres being strewn in every direction as they maneuver every corner with the screech of a ‘banshee’. Nothing but dust and white smoke behind you and a certainty of victory in front of you because yours is the best time for this and every stage. At the finish line, you step slowly out your car, helmet in hand, wanting a Stag to celebrate and to quiet your mind. It’s the only beverage for a man who is both a hero and a formidable racing adversary.
Stag is a European style lager with a distinct, robust flavour and a lingering but gentle aftertaste. Both its taste and its name are indicative of what true masculinity is – unforgettable strength and character. It appeals to the male consumer who embodies these characteristics and who appreciates a beer that reminds him and everyone around him of exactly who he is.
Specifications:
Alcohol by Volume: 5.4 – 5.9%
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4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Reviewed from notes. My brother brought this back from a trip he took down there.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a glossed over yellow color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about less than thirty seconds leaving barely any lacing.
The smell had some light toasted cereal/grainy notes with a light lemon trying to come in.
The taste was slightly sweet but it seemed in a slight misleading sort of way because as it warmed, it seemed like it lost flavor and became watery.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light and sessionable. The carbonation was barely there.
Overall, weird beer to me. It was fun to try but probably wouldn’t have it again.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a glossed over yellow color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about less than thirty seconds leaving barely any lacing.
The smell had some light toasted cereal/grainy notes with a light lemon trying to come in.
The taste was slightly sweet but it seemed in a slight misleading sort of way because as it warmed, it seemed like it lost flavor and became watery.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light and sessionable. The carbonation was barely there.
Overall, weird beer to me. It was fun to try but probably wouldn’t have it again.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2014
at 00:33
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle received in trade from RobertDale, thanks for the opportunity! Pours a medium straw color with a huge bubbly white head that persists forever and leaves lots of stickies on the sided of the glass. Intense skunky aroma upon first opening the bottle, luckily that eventually dissipated. Light honey and sugary malt with a hint of floral hop to balance. The flavor is a bit sweet but ends up dry and has just enough hop flavor to keep it from cloying. Light body with a moderate to high level of carbonation and a slick sweet mouthfeel. Nothing offensive here, but certainly nothing exciting either. Maybe it tastes better on a hot Caribbean island?
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2014
at 17:15
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle brought back and thanks to Shay and Lorraine. Pours gold. Thin white head. Nose and taste of adjunct corn, pale malt, light hop and corn chip. Crisp. Touch of pepper. Almost pilsner-like. Light bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2014
at 09:50
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
A pale blonde lager with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet adjunct malt with light sulfur notes. In mouth, decent sweet malt with light German hops, typical but goes well with doubles, mahn!
Tried
on 06 Dec 2013
at 18:23
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle purchased in St. Kitts. Label reads: Brewed and bottled by Carib brewery St. Kitts & Nevis Limited. Buckley’s Site St. Kitts & Nevis Product of St. Kitts and Nevis Pours medium clear yellow under a soap scum white head. Sour cheap island lager aroma. Not much flavor, maybe a little hop bitterness at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2013
at 15:46
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle in Barbados, 4th January 2013. As billed a standard lager, no surprises.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2013
at 15:29
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Yet another beer reviewed while on holiday in Tobago (June 2008). 275ml Bottle (like all the other bottles from this brewery). Poured into a half-pint tumbler on the balcony of the hotel. Golden, pale yellow colour with a white head that soon left leaving a weak white collar around the glass. Fairly malty in both the aroma and taste, not bad for a Carib product (I am becoming an expert on their beers, bloody hell, I hope not!). Sharper, cleaner and a bit of body to it. The 5.5% alcohol helped to take it well past the normal Carib Lager in the flavour stakes. All in all not bad, my beer of choice at my hotel (it was free in my All Inclusive Package).
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2012
at 04:06
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Thanks to my gf’s dad who recently brought this one back from his trip. pours light golden with white head. Aroma has plenty of sweet corn and malts as well as grains. Taste is very similar to the aroma. Overall mouthfeel is sweet, refreshing and way above many of other pale lagers. No wonder TnT is not exporting this one. I drank plenty of it in Trinidad and I remember enjoying it a lot more than Carib. Would probably gain a few more points had I reviewed the beer with anice plate of curry goat and roti.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2009
at 22:05
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle 27,5 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Clear, pale golden with a white head. Fresh, hoppy nose. Light and somewhat watery body with a limited malt base and a dry, hoppy and bitter finish. Drinkable. 080707
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2007
at 12:51
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
27.5 cL bottle. Pours clear yellow with a crispy white head. Aroma of grass, hay and canesugar it seems. Flavour is sweet malty. Decent bitter finish. Bland
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2007
at 15:04