Banks (Barbados) Brewery

Commercial Brewery in Oistins, Barbados 🇧🇧

Established in 1961

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Newton, Oistins, BB17047, Barbados
Description
The storied history of one of this island’s most beloved and iconic brands began on September 6, 1961, as Banks (Barbados) Breweries Limited opened its doors in Wildey, St. Michael and commenced production of Banks Beer, Barbados’ premium lager, and later, other indigenous brands such as PLUS, Tiger Malt, Canon Stoute, Coconut Cooler, Fruesta, and TWIST Shandy, just to name a few. The Brewery is also the local bottler and distributor of Guinness, and has been recognised by the world renowned brand for its maintenance of the highest level of quality and international standards.

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in Barbados. 26th February 2012, nice coffee and ash aroma, pours jet black, little head or lacing, thin in consistency, coffee, ash, metallic, sweet with enough bitterness to balance. A good beer, nice addition to the range in Barbados.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2012 at 16:21


3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, apple. Flavour is sweet, fruit, malt, hop, apple. Boring beer.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2012 at 21:16


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Thousand or so bottles, on regular holidays to Barbados, normally get 100 bottles when I arrive for 2 weeks. Best served ice cold, I don’t drink lager normally, but on holiday, sitting on the beach this goes down fine. Very easy drinking, not sure if it is actually 5% ABV to be honest.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2012 at 00:36


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Sour corn and barley malt aroma - hint of hops. Golden yellow color with moderate head. Slightly sweet creamy barley malt. Surprisingly solid Caribbean lager.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2012 at 17:43


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, Ulfborg 2011. A new exotic country, unfortunately with your typical run of the mill, malty grainy pale lager.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2012 at 03:44


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from the Systembolaget, Karlstad. Pours clear light golden with a small white head. The usual industrial pale lager - pretty tasteless, but nothing wrong with it. Expected the worst, but this was better than expected.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2011 at 08:37


4.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle from Beershine. Dark brown with a head that died quickly. Sweet stout aroma of brewer’s caramel and I guess lactose. Very sweet, light-bodied stout with lactose. Caramel-malta notes but no real roast.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2011 at 21:51


3.6
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 3.5

I got a bottle of this from total wine and more in florida. My bottle says guyana and banks on it. and is labeled as banks carribian lager. Pale yellow from a bottle. Has a little bit of that veggie near skunk cabbage aroma. First taste is weird citrus and veggie skunk carries over to the taste. Has much more bitterness than expected for a pale lager, almost comes across like a well hopped ale. Decent co2. Has good sizzle on the palate. Yes, a little more bitter than I expected but not in a pilsner kind of way, more ale-ish. Same on finish. Yes rather rude for a lager lover.

Tried from Bottle from Total Wine & More - Tampa, FL on 12 Dec 2011 at 17:48

gave a cheers!

4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Flaske 0,355l fra Systembolaget i Kiruna. Delt med Rune under sammenkomst i Skibotn 17 Sep 11. Lys gylden. Lavt kremaktig skum. Søt malt/gressaroma. Smaken er gress & mais. Litt syrlig ettersmak. Blir vel søt. KI=4

Tried on 05 Dec 2011 at 03:35


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle from Systembolaget in Uddevalla, Sweden. Light light light taste with minimun bitternes. Very light yellow colour with a white head. Overall a very boring and cheap lager beer

Tried from Bottle on 01 Nov 2011 at 11:03