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That's just sick and twisted!
Seek help immediately!
Stripes should be so cold your lips turn blue and you near get a brain freeze headache .
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Far from sick or twisted, many people enjoy room temperature beer. Red Stripe included, although I prefer room temp Guinness over Red Stripe. To each their own!
Just enjoy!
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You'll often hear a Jamaican (usually older) asking for a "hot beer".
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In the country parts when you buy a beer you are asked if you want it hot or cold.
Cap
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Might be a cultural through back to the British colonial days. Don't the British mainly drink their brews at room temperatures?
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Johio
Might be a cultural through back to the British colonial days. Don't the British mainly drink their brews at room temperatures?
I think it's also due to that fact that electric service in the hills is relatively resent. In 1974 when I first built the roundhouse we had no electricity in my district. In 1968 when I first visited Negril I only remember the Warf Club having current. Of course my living quarters in KIngston had electric. In fact Kingston was one of the first cites in the word to have electric.
That plus the the opinion posted by Johio is probably the background of hot beer
Cap
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captaind
I think it's also due to that fact that electric service in the hills is relatively resent. In 1974 when I first built the roundhouse we had no electricity in my district. In 1968 when I first visited Negril I only remember the Warf Club having current. Of course my living quarters in KIngston had electric. In fact Kingston was one of the first cites in the word to have electric.
That plus the the opinion posted by Johio is probably the background of hot beer
Cap
Your right about the electricity David. Kingston got a power generating plant in 1892 only 13 years after Edison invented the light bulb. https://www.jpsco.com/about-jps/our-history/
I first stayed in Accompong Town in the early '90s and there was no electricity at all. A panel truck brought block ice every day or so but it was so rare an occurrence that people used it for food and not for a luxury as cold or cool beer. It wasn't until after '01 that a somewhat reliable source of current came there but it browned and brightened so frequently that motors and compressors burned out all the time so, again, still little evidence of a cold or cool beer.
Today there is mostly reliable current and only goes off during lightning storms but the browning and brightening is still somewhat of a problem. People there say it is a plot cooked up by Courts to sell refrigerators and freezers! ;)
A friend told me that people distrusted drinking beer that went back and forth from cool to hot and that the practice of pouring out a splash on the floor, which started as "pouring a drink for the dead" morphed into a test for foam to see if the beer was flat and possibly spoiled.
Peace and Guidance
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I of course was being sarcastic....
I too love my Guinness and all the new craft porters.
But for me there's just nothing like an icy red stripe on a sweltering day...
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Weeboy1
I of course was being sarcastic....
I too love my Guinness and all the new craft porters.
But for me there's just nothing like an icy red stripe on a sweltering day...
Totally agree with you there, Weeboy...I have locations ranked in Negril by how consistently cold their Red Stripe is (ice on bottle - a big plus) ... :biggrin-new:
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Chicken form Chicken's Magic Bus always drinks it warm. We did an overnight to Port Antonio last year. Gave him a warm red stripe the first day and he was still drinking it the next day. Warm and flat. :(
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Ok Lisa, lets see the rankings. Inquiring minds want to know. I have my favorites, but I'm there 50 weeks less per year than you!!!
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Bnewb
Totally agree with you there, Weeboy...I have locations ranked in Negril by how consistently cold their Red Stripe is (ice on bottle - a big plus) ... :biggrin-new:
Yup! so cold you'd wish you brought your winter gloves....
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On my first few trips, cold beer was not a sure bet. I remember a long night at a concert on the beach. As daylight was just breaking, we asked for our last beers. "Make 'em cold ones!" we pleaded. We sat back and watched as the server thrust his arm to the bottom of the barrel of Red Stripes and started digging around. He finally pulled his arm out with two beers, "Here they are!" They weren't any colder than any of the other coolish beers we'd been drinking all night. We just laughed and shook our heads. Just another thread in the rich tapestry that gets woven by coming back to Jamaica for many years. Respect --Marblehead
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My favorite driver and friend of 25 years, Garfield Watts, drinks his Red Stripe warm in the "winter"!
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I remember a beach vendor who sold RS. When asked if they were cold he would pull on out of his carry bag and press it against your arm. (which was hot due to the sun) Wasn't that cold to the palette though LOL
Cap
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rocknrollfarmer
Hello...Have you ever drank a Red Stripe warm or at room temperature? Our friend Judith from Clive & Judith's Beer joint on the road to Sav, likes to drink her Red Stripe warm. Well, I'm still back here in Minnesota, and I tried a warm one the other night. It wasn't too bad. I had one tonight, it wasn't too bad. This is the Red Stripe we can buy in America that is brewed in Jamaica. {not from Latrobe PA}. So, just curious if you have tried a "warm" RS? Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy. One love.
Many people in Europe drink room temperature beer
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After my best friend, a Jamaican, asked me to try warm Red Stripe, now I won't drink it any other way. Never gets "skunky" that way.
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I like 'em hot. If you don't down a RS in 5 minutes there hot anyway. Darker beers imo taste better warm
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When I was there in May, most stripes started cold and were warm by the end... lol
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