Carib Brewery

Commercial Brewery in Champs Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

Established in 1947

Contact
Eastern Main Road, St Joseph, Champs Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago
Subsidiaries
Carib Brewery owns 2 breweries:
Description
This is how it all began; this is the heart of our history. Sir Gerald Wight, founder of the Caribbean Development Company (CDC), ensured that the production process, which was based on the European-Continental method of brewing with our own twist, was mastered before the company’s flagship beverage, Carib Lager Beer was sold in 1950. In fact CDC still produces the perfect lager today because our formula continues to include the best ingredients, unwavering quality and constant innovation.

Today Carib Brewery boasts a portfolio that includes Beer, Malt, Stout and Soft Drinks. We produce Carib, Carib Light, Stag, Pola and Pola Light, Shandy Carib, Mackeson and Guinness as well as the following nonalcoholic brands; Ginseng-Up, Malta Carib, Malta Carib Ultra, Smalta Smalta Smiles – over 1,200,000 hectoliters of product every year.

Our acute insight into what our consumers enjoy has also inspired us to form partnerships with international companies such as Heineken International B.V., Diageo and Ginseng Up Corporation. As a result Heineken, Guinness Stout, Ginseng Up and Smirnoff Ice are also part of our portfolio.

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3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
295ml can (from notes.) Light golden pour. Fairly bland and watery. A boring pilsner.
Tried from Can on 22 Jul 2012 at 05:58

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Usual lager look, thin white head, straw body. Thin and weird taste, almost chemical. Not sure what to make of it.
Tried on 15 Jul 2012 at 11:14

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Pours black color with light brown head. Aromas of roasted malts, coffee and toffee. Flavors of roasted malts, sweet milk chocolate, toffee, and molasses. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried on 10 Jul 2012 at 18:22

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle from random supermarket in St John’s, Antigua. Black with a tan head. Nose of sweet charred malts. Similarly sweet flavour with a hint of metal. No world beater but just about bearable chugged down in the sun with a little wadadli bless.
Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2012 at 14:13

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at Zeke’s when I asked if i could pour it into a glass they tried to hand me a plastic cup when i said can i have glass they said only if i stay sitting at bar and then stared at me skeptically. pours black with thin head. tastes of coffee, chocolate, ash, vanilla, dark berries, and brown sugar. its rich and creamy. good stuff from the caribbean
Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2012 at 07:00

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 5
Pale golden with a brief white head. Sourish and cereal aroma. Flavour with rubber and cigarette-ashes. Low, or no, bitterness.
Tried on 19 May 2012 at 13:56

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 5
bottle, thank you jaghana! Clear golden yellow with some small floaties, mid-sized white head. Sweet and slightly grainy, hints of sweetcorn. Very shy hoppy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2012 at 10:08

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Smells of bitter coffee, though the aroma isn’t super prominent. Pours with a mocha head that has some staying power, a little lacing. Aftertaste is when this starts to go bad - too much sugary sweetness. The high alcohol goes bad with so much sugar. Bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 14 May 2012 at 19:09

2.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 0.5
Oh dear, Oh dear. I wanted to try every beer I saw on my holiday in Tobago, this was just about the worst (Miller beers are also available on the island and they are really crap). 275ml Brown Bottle, poured into a half-pint tumbler on my hotel balcony. Very, very pale gold, a quickly disappearing white head sat on top for a few seconds before it turned into a thin collar around the glass. Normal aroma score of 3 for my non-aroma lagers. Tasteless, really tasteless. Dry, watery and nasty. A metalic twang arrived in the mouthfeel, this is not a good beer.
Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2012 at 04:13

5.1/10 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