Red Stripe Beer

I remember drinking Red Stripe in 1961. I thought it was a good beer. It came in a brown, long-necked bottle, like Budweiser. In the 1970s, I saw Red Stripe came in green bottles, which displeased me because sometimes green bottles can give a beer a skunky taste. But when I tasted it, it wasn't skunky (I bought a case for a Jamaican Independence Day celebration in Illinois in 1972), but I didn't think it was terribly good. Now it comes in that ugly, stubby brown bottle that's supposed to make you look handsome by comparison. It just doesn't taste the same to me, and I'm not too fond of it. All of which leads me to a question: do you think it was the same beer all along, and it was only the container that changed? Posted by: Frankfetters in Jamaica Culture Forum

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