Bottle @ Fonefan tasting. Clear amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and bready. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 270424

Flasa u Peta. Vona horkasta mierne kavova. Farba karamelova. V chuti horkost kava. Na kpnci ostava.

Bottle from Rubin, thanks pal! Pours dark amber. Sweetish, smoked notes, sweet malty finish. Meh.

F: medium, tan, good retention. C: coppery, clear. A: toasted malty, caramel, bready, hint of fruity. T: toast malty, caramel, bit grassy, bready, dry on the palate, bit boring yet almost good one, medium body and carbonation, enjoyed, 33cl can from Champion Moorea supermarket in Moorea.

11/01/2018 - 33cl can from a trade with rubin77 (hanks for the country tick). Drank from the can on train. Nose is malts, orange, bit caramel. Taste is malts, bit smoke, caramel, fruit, dry grainy ending. Not complex but really not bad certainly since lots of country ticks are bland pilsners.

Very nice crisp amber (surprising) coloured body with a cola glow and a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of malt, caramel, cereal, grain and a bit of caster sugar. Medium-bodied; Assertive toasted malt flavours dominate with a good dose of caramel, some alcohol, a touch of grain and toast and a little bit of fruit at the tail end. Aftertaste shows the malt, caramel and toasted notes more than anything else, but some of the light fruit and unfinished sugars are noticeable as well. Overall, a nice beer and the best of the three Hinano beers with a good maltiness and a very fresh flavour. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased at the Grocery Store next to my hotel here in Tahiti, French Polynesia on 14-August-2016 for 245 XPF (CPF) sampled a few hours later while looking out at Moorea on 14-August-2016.

330 ml bottle, bought from somewhere in Japan. Pours brownish amber with almost no head. Aroma is subdued and sweet, not crazily sweet but more like Coca-Cola-sweet, or cider-sweet - without acidity, or lychee-sweet. This sweetness is coming from malts but no apparent hops there. Taste has this same lychee character with light Coca-Cola. Hops demonstrate themselves in the aftertaste, dry bitterness lingers in your mouth for a while. I wonder how common this beer really is in Tahiti - it is not very complex beer but still pretty nice and would work well under the hot sun.

Dark amber colour. The aroma is a little bit bubblegummy. The taste has toasty malts with a hint of roast - less caramelly than one might expect, but those random phenols give me pause when I see it in the stores. It’s too bad, normally a little toasty lager would be a good break from the monotony of regular Hinano.