Warm Red Stripe......

[captaind]

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

[Accompong]

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.

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