Royal Jamaican

in Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲


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4.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
Pours straw, no head.Nose shows candied ginger, a musty/mouldy note and a bready character.Very sweet flavours, again like candied-ginger/confectionery. A wierd bi-carb soda note in the finish.
Tried from Can on 05 Feb 2015 at 01:08

6.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pours a hazy grey-beige colour with a head that disappears quickly, as it is fizzy, leaving no lacing. Spicy nose with lots of fresh ginger and pine needle notes. The cane sugar balanced the taste between the spiciness of the ginger and the light sweetness. Light malt lingers. Quite refreshing and very spicy ginger, just like real ginger beer pop. Not as sweet as most said it was.
Tried from Can on 01 Jan 2015 at 20:38

5.1/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 8 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Lemon-lime and ginger nose. Milky yellow, headless. Cane sugar, lemonade with a prickly ginger heat on the back of the palate. Cloying but with a good ginger kick. Light body. Not very beery. Dial back the sugar please.
Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2014 at 16:58

6.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
(Bottle) Hazy pale yellow gold with no head. Pleasant aroma of ginger. Medium body, slightly syrupy, and well carbonated with a fine bright carbonation. The taste is dramatic: there is so much ginger! It is ginger from the foretaste straight through to the extremely long fiery aftertaste. The flavour profile does change, mostly notably from flavour of ginger to ginger burn, but also there is sweetness that grows fast at the start and then subsides. Normally I would consider this amount of sweetness to be too much; however with the intense ginger and the length of the aftertaste, it is probably necessary for balance. The sweetness seems sugary, not malty. There really is no hint that this is a based on a regular beer and I assume that it is a traditional ginger beer, fermenting sugar. As the former, it would disappoint, but as the latter it is pushing the envelope. A very impressive ginger beer.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2014 at 06:11

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours a light ginger color - not red - like the root skin or maybe the root. Not much head, and not for very log. It smells so ginger, and there seems a hint of rum. Med body. Boy is it ginger. It burns. Some sugar, and in this case it may be a good thing to carry the spice. Not noticing Cascade citrus. Just lots of ginger, and maybe a rum note. Damn, but its refreshing after hot yard work.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2014 at 14:36

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle. Earthy ginger aroma. Cloudy pale yellow with minimal head. Sugary sweet ginger and malt flavor. Burns in the finish. Tasty - very spicy.
Tried from Bottle on 25 May 2014 at 13:40

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle: 4.4% Pours fizzy, nearly clear, extra-light yellow...no head just fizzy carbonation. Wow...Immense ginger and Gold Bond Powder aroma.....really. Wow again...so much ginger it actually feels spicy hot....sugary sweet. Odd to the point of being medicinal. Not exactly pleasant.
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2014 at 16:02

4.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy very pale yellow with lots of carbonation that only hints a white head but dissipates quickly and completely. Aroma has a strong earthy ginger yet with a good amount of sweetness from sugar. Flavor is full of ginger that is almost hot it is so present and offset by sweet fruits and sugar.
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2014 at 16:36

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 3
Poured from 355mL bottle. Hazy, very pale yellow, looks like ginger ale, fizzy, no head. Ginger aroma. Taste starts sweet, ends spicy, ginger through and through. This is a decent summer alcoholic ginger pop that I’d drink again, but not a beer.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2014 at 00:58

6.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle - Smells like candied ginger. Fizzy hazy pale yellow. Sweet ginger that has a bit of heat in the finish. Although not a good beer, it is the best tasting ginger beer I have had of the lot.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Sep 2013 at 15:27