Light
Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.38
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3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours light gold with a small white head. Very light bready aroma. Med minus body. Flavor is very clean - like barley flavored water. I can only imagine the hops. So this is more or less what our troops used to get. Poor bastards.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2012
at 15:34
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Someone left this in my fridge so I figure what the hell, I’ll give it a shot. Pours clear golden color with white head. Grainy malt aroma. Bland, inoffensive flavor with some bitterness. Light body with crisp carbonation.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2010
at 19:40
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
12oz bottle at the Cherry Blast art event in SE Washington DC. I actually liked this better than the regular Kirin Ichiban in terms of flavor. Still your standard pale lager, grassy, metallic aroma. Industrial flavor. Dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2009
at 00:33
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Looks like lighter yellow sparklin water. A lighter enjoyable beer on the palate. Better than many domestic light beers. Fun, fizzy bubbly palate. Slight industrial linger in the background but otherwise well behaved. Overall good experience for this lager loaver. Looking forward to another bottle of this stuff. One of the better pale lagers I’ve tasted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2009
at 05:08
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
12oz bottle-pours a dissipating white head and yellow color. Aroma is grain/husky, rice? Taste is grain/husky, rice/adjuncts for sure, cardboard, slight hops. 2.0 That was when it was cold. As it warms, its less palatable. Final 1.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2008
at 20:24
1.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 0.5
Really pale straw. Aroma of broccoli-accented icing sugar. Extremely empty palate. Hollowed out, gutted, soulless. They mixed icing sugar, baking soda and water.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2008
at 20:00
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Of course, since it is a light beer, it won’t be half as good as the original beer it’s based on. This is the case for this beer.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2006
at 16:20
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Clear pale golden color with a thin white head. Sweet corn and grain aroma. Grainy flavor with some light grassy hops.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2006
at 20:57