Red Stripe
Desnoes and Geddes in Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.34
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For 80 years Red Stripe has embodied the spirit, rhythm and pulse of Jamaica and its people. Eugene Desnoes & Thomas Geddes really started something special in Kingston back in 1918. Barley malt and the finest Yakima hops were combined with lots of island attitude to give Red Stripe its now world famous easy taste. Enjoy the Jamaican easy vibe.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle into lager glass, best before 6/24/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers.. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, cracker, corn, white bread dough,light honey, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Okay aromas with pale malt/corn and mild earthy hop notes; with solid strength. A bit too fruity/yeasty. Taste of lemon, cracker, corn, white bread dough, light honey, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Very mild herbal/grassy hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, cracker, corn, white bread dough, light honey, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness of pale malt/corn and mild earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Nicely clean on lager flavors, not too fruity/yeasty. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. A bit thin, but not watery feeling. Overall this is a solid adjunct pale lager. Good robustness of malt/corn and mild earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Clean malt/grainy corn flavors with touches of balancing hops. An enjoyable offering, and good style example. Met my expectations.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2018
at 00:38
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3
Sanctuary is a rock bar in Basingstoke. Closing next month. No cellar so all beer is cans and Red Stripe best on offer. Sweet saccharine floral aroma. Pale gold. No head. Sweet. Chemically so but could be more offensive. Thin. Light. Fizzy. Abrupt. Had worse.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2018
at 14:27
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled from 0.33 l bottle from 'Getränketempel', bottled in April 2017. Clear, golden yellow with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, slightly grassy and a bit skunky aroma of grains and some straw. Slightly sweet, moderately bitter, a little grassy taste of grains and some straw, followed by a short, moderately bitter, slightly grassy and a bit metallic finish. Thin to medium body, slightly effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2017
at 11:51
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
08-09-17 // draft at The Mill, Cambridge, UK. Clear golden, small white head. Jamaica Country tick. Pale malty, watery, light bitter finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Red Stripe on 08 Sep 2017 at 22:15 - Score: 4
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2017
at 15:45
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Keg at the Union, Aylstone. How has it come to pass that I have not rated this one? Golden yellow, lots and lots and lots of carbonation hold up a firm white head. Skunky, corny aroma. Sweet taste, with a hint of orchard fruit, but there's a more saccharin finish. Not a lot to this, I've has worse lagers though. Drinkable enough.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2017
at 09:29