Red Stripe Jamaican Lager
Desnoes & Geddes Limited

 

Poured from a 330ml bottle.
An easy drinking lager,ok on a hot day.

 

Golden color, nice white head. The aroma of malt and hay. Light malty taste. Light body , pleasant carbonation. Dry aftertaste. Refreshing and easy to drink.

I had one on tap maybe 20 years ago. I'm wondering if it was an anomaly as it was one of only 2 beers I've ever had that I couldn't finish. The problem? Mindblowingly sweet! The cola I ordered in its place tasted almost tart by comparison.
However, others aren't mentioning what was so apparent to my palate, which leaves me wondering if a mischievous server poured a cup of sugar into mine.

 

Nothing much going on here. A typical mainstream lager. Pours like one, and the nose has a slightly brown sugar effect that carries through on the taste.

 

Golden yellow with some soda fizz that faded fast. Skunky smell which wasn't as prominent in the flavor. Taste is a bit stale, with some biscuit, slight sweetness, and mild hops. Not much bitterness and the flavor didn't linger. Watery thin. Not great but not terrible.

16 oz. can best by Jun 2025

Clear gold color with a dense white foam head. Notes of honey and cereal grains, lemon, some earthy grassy hops, mild hints of green apple, sulfur, light skunkiness, starch, lighter bodied, smooth

Presentation: 11.2 ounce bottle poured into a pint glass.

Look: pale golden color. Minimal carbonation and minimal head.

Smell: primary aromas are malty, nutty, and sweet. Minor hops aroma. The smell is quite appealing.

Taste: primary flavors are roasted malt, nutty, grassy, and grainy. Minor hops aftertaste.

Feel: light and fizzy.

Overall: this is a decent lager but nothing special. The malty taste and smell is somewhat unique and makes this beer stand out compared to its competitors. This beer is also quite drinkable. I would recommend this beer to anyone who is looking for a malty and drinkable lager.

 

 

 

Have had a few Red Stripes over the years, most recently poured from 11.2-oz. bottle, stamped "BB 05 APR 25," into pilsner glass.

Pours astonishingly pale straw-yellow with clarity and fizzing 1-finger near-white head, which soon dissipates to a persistent film, which pulls some specks of lace down the glass. Aromas of a little pilsner malt and bitter herbals off pour, with a hint of orchard fruit aroma, and then an off earthy aroma. On tasting, begins rather dry, then bitter herbal hops dominate, and carry over an earthy malt base, into a crispy, carbonated, drying finish.

Even the official description of this beer does not build one's hope, but there's nothing horribly wrong with this simple lager, which wisely leaves when you're done.

short lasting head. small amount of lacing. Visually appealling dark gold color when poured into a glass. hint of nutty flavor. Malty smell. I come back to it fairly regular as its the best AAL I have tried.

V thin head n even thinner mouthfeel,, decent amount of lager funk on the nose w some nuttiness n hop spice. Taste is sweet malts, grape, white wine, some green apple. A bit of diacetyl & acetaldehyde but they’re both incorporated tastefully into the flavor profile,, not overpowering whatsoever. Imo perhaps the best macro AAL out there.

 

I'm catching up on some lagers I've never tried--even though they are pretty well known. Red Stripe is one of them. Look, Smell, Taste, and Feel are all what you would expect with an AAL style beer. It's not bad and would hit the spot, ice-cold, on a hot summer day.

Chill hazed burnt gold with an unevenly short but foamy off-white head.

Way less abrasive out of the can than I remember it being in bottles, I largely experience white bun with a hint of corn and a little grassiness. At times there's even a hint of white wine.

Where's the metallic astringency?!?!