Prime Max
HiteJinro in Seoul, Gyeonggi, South Korea 🇰🇷
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.04
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100% all malt beer including the finest malt, selected Cascade aroma hop and soft creamy foam by our exclusive process.
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4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
At a tasting, thanks kerenmk, clear light gold colour, aroma of cardboard and honey, flavour of wet wool with some fruitiness, light bitterness. Not offensive but pretty mediocre.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2014
at 03:46
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel Florentin. Thanks kerenmk. As "Max". Clear golden. Grainy aroma, slightly corny. Sweetish and grainy flavor with corny notes and a finish with faint bitter notes. Light-bodied. Pretty non-offensive.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2014
at 02:02
3.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
330ml Dose. Goldgelbe Farbe, wenig Schaum. Geruch leicht malzig, muffig. Geschmack wässrig malzig mit leicht unangenehmen Bitternoten.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2014
at 10:49
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Can. Pale orange with a loose white head that doesn’t hang around. Odd aroma of lemon, apple, bread, cooked corn, glue. Sweet and grainy with apples, some metal, lemony cleaner. Dryish, slightly astringent finish with very little bitterness. Well into unpleasant territory.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2013
at 04:48
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Pale golden coloured body with a hint of a white head. Aroma of rice, corn, pale malt and a big metallic note. Light-bodied; Sharp rice and light malt flavour with a lot of metal, earth and cereal flavours and nothing too pleasing. Aftertaste has a little alcohol, the slightest hint of citrus and more of the funky malt. Overall, a pretty bad offering, but pairs well with spicy food here - however, just drink the soju and pass this one up! I sampled this 33 cL can purchased at GS25 in Myeongdong, Seoul, Korea on 06-April-2012 for 1,200Won.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jun 2013
at 10:06
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(can) Clear rather bright yellowy pale gold with reasonable, but short-lived head. Pleasant aroma: lightly malty, with hints of lemon and grassy hops. Light body, a little watery, with pleasant carbonation. Reasonable malty foretaste then develops some citrus notes and then falls a bit flat with a finish which has notes of bread and a faint metallic tang. Overall, other than the finish, it’s quite acceptable, and a little ahead of most of the other beers on the corner store shelf.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2012
at 02:22
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
It is a bright sunny Sunday afternoon and I’ve picked up the dog crap and leaves, mown the lawns for the first time this year, I am now sitting in the sun. My wife has even showered the dog in the garden, so summer is almost upon us (it’s 15th March 2009 in Shropshire, England). In my quest to drink around the world I ordered this beer along with a few others over the interenet from ’Beers of Europe’, didn’t know Korea was in Europe, but hey, they sent the beer. Brown 330ml twist-top bottle, best before 24th Mar 09, drank 10 days before that date. Poured into a Hoegaarden Grand Cru tulip shaped glass. Clear golden body, typical lager look, the large bubbles in the head didn’t hang around and soon the white head was a weak collar and a pathetic wisp, these in turn also disappeared before my second gulp. Sweet lemon grass was the smell I though I detected as I sniffed the bottle before pouring the beer. That aroms faded swifter than the head, so my normal lager/pilsner 3 for smell. Not unpleasant, but nothing to mark it above anyother lager import around. Starts off sweet in the mouth then turns dry towards the end. I could imagine drinking this at a hot and sweaty South East Asian beachbar but it isn’t a UK summers drink. Not enough body or seoul (see what I did there? Seoul/Korea) to make it a truely memorable experience. I am sure some wag has already suggested the brewery adds an ’S’ to its name, it could then be called the ’Shite Brewery’. This however would be unfair in my opinion, nothing wrong with this lager, however it is just below par and the head loss didn’t help its cause.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2012
at 01:58
2.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Golden clear. Doesnt hold a white head. Bland, chemically laden aroma. Harsh mouthfeel and bite that lasts well after the finish. Heavy malt taste.
Tried
on 12 May 2012
at 00:18
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
50cl can, courtesy of Joes. Clear golden color, almost no head and no lacing. Smell malts, rice, yeast. Taste malts, slight sweet hints, grains, yeast. Low carbo, low body.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2012
at 12:20
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
35,5 cl can, BBE 10.06.2011
Very quickly disappearing head. Rather light, somewhat stale and sweet aroma with corn and cardboard. Flavour has corn, sweetish malt, some hops and hints of butter. Typical and harmless pale lager.
Very quickly disappearing head. Rather light, somewhat stale and sweet aroma with corn and cardboard. Flavour has corn, sweetish malt, some hops and hints of butter. Typical and harmless pale lager.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2012
at 07:14