Red Stripe is a Jamaican beer and brewery, they also brew a Red Stripe light, but I've never seen it for sale. Red Stripe's popularity is US grew from tourists to Jamaica getting to know the beer on vacation and Jamaican ex-patriots. Guinness Brewing Worldwide has a 51% ownership of Red Stripe Brewery.
This Lager beer starts off with the standard lager smell. I am not getting the chalky smell I get from other lagers, but instead a kind of yeasty malt smell. This beer is a very light straw color that is so light it is almost transparent, in a tinted glass this might be mistaken for water. There is plenty of carbonation in this beer, with plenty of bubbles coming up from the bottom.
A very slight malt sweetness with some refreshing sourness, almost lemon taste. This beer has a crisp taste that leaves a dry finish. There is an ever so slight hops taste that is balanced with the slight malt taste. Not too complex, but enjoyable. The carbonation lends to a fuller mouthfeel.
This is a nice drinking beer. There are beers with more taste on the market, but for such a widely distributed beer this is just fine. Easy to drink and more taste than the standard light beer. Hooray, beer!
No comments:
Post a Comment