Okhotsk Blue Ryuhyo Draft

Can at the bottle share. So is it the gardenia coloring that makes it a spice/herb/vegetable? Yeah, it pours a light blue like Aqua Velva, but from there its just another pale lager. Light malty sweet nose and mildly sweet taste. Not much to it. A bit on the watered down side. Neat little novelty though.

350ml can from Firebox. Pours a clear and bright blue colour (same dye used in Blue Curaçao), thin sliver of a pale blue head, it looks more like a cocktail than a beer. Aroma is artificially sweet, though inoffensive, again more like a cocktail I can’t really detect any hop or malt notes. The taste is not very beer-like, typical lager malt with a lot of sweetness to it, possibly from the yams or maybe just artificial additives. No bitterness at all. Moderate carbonation, mouthfeel is maybe a bit too fizzy. Overall it’s just meh... a sweet, strange looking lager.
Wasn’t keen to try this after seeing all the bad reviews but honestly wasn’t as bad as I expected. Sure it’s not something I’d want to drink regularly especially considering the price. In my opinion it’s more of a fun gimmick for Halloween parties and the like.

Abashiri Okhotsk Blue 5% This is one of those weird Japanese colored beers that approximate a cocktail. Apparently, the blue is due to an algae or something. This pours an incredibly clear fluorescent blue with a fizzy light blue head of foam. The aroma is kind of like blueberry mouthwash. The mouthfeel is light bodied and very dry. The taste is that odd artificial sweetness, blueberry and cream soda with a macro-lager grainy cracker pale malt sweetness. Too sweet, gassy and just barely beer like. This isn’t for me.

Can from Natural Lawson. Deep blue with a light sky blue foamy head that dissipates fairly quickly. Slight hint of grass, but basically no nose. Taste of light paper and light grass. Essentially not taste. Very minimal amount of barley I’m sure. Gross.

330 ml bottle. Pours blue. Blue. Supposedly as blue as icebergs. It doesn’t look very appetising though, looks very thin and artificially coloured. Very small head, only a little foam. Aroma - is not like beer at all. Not bad - but feels more like shochu with some candy - which it actually might even be, considering the look. Taste is weird too, not as bad as it looks - but that is only because it does not have much flavour. Flavours that it does have are quite funny potato shochu at first and then diminishing but ever-present buttery happoshu feel until the end. They shouldn’t have bothered to brew this.