Lager
Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.41
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3.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Again a riddle. My bottle calls itself Premium lager. Premium, but no Ichiban - oh, and sod the 4.9 - 5 will do. So; I guess the Lager. The Kirin website is of an archetypal futility for research Pale gold with a touch of haze; white head. Flowery nose, bit of ureum, wetted, then dried up again cassonade sugar. Taste of wet hay, sodden sugar. Terrible. Watery texture, sodden MF. Faint bitterish, quite metallic aftertaste. Pils poor. Euhh... oh, you know.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2005
at 14:32
3.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Bottle Frothy, white head - mostly diminishing. Fair lace. Sparkling, yellow body. Lightly yeasty aroma - almost no nose perceivable. Lightly bitter initial flavour and finish. Averagily long finish. Lightly bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2004
at 03:31
3.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled (brewed by Charles Wells, ABV 5.0%, labelled "Kirin Beer" and "Premium lager beer")
My first Japanese beer. Lager yellow, quickly diminishing head. Lots of carbonation and big bubbles. Aroma is boiled corn. Watery and metallic with suprisingly good hopping and bready malts. Notes of corn can be tasted when beer warms. Slightly bitter and hoppy aftertaste.
My first Japanese beer. Lager yellow, quickly diminishing head. Lots of carbonation and big bubbles. Aroma is boiled corn. Watery and metallic with suprisingly good hopping and bready malts. Notes of corn can be tasted when beer warms. Slightly bitter and hoppy aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2004
at 10:47
2.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Light gold, with oversized bubbles and an anorexic head. Aroma mixes vauge continental hop notes with grains and background solvent notes (no big surprises yet, as this bottle was produced at the AB plant in Los Angeles). Very light body. Grainy palate with a sweetish edge. Unpleasant notes of higher alcohols hide underneath the DMS. The fizziness carries these unfortunate elements across the tongue with much more conviction than whatever malt might be present. Finishes quickly, but not quick enough given the stain all that corn left on my tongue.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2004
at 22:52