The Draft
Orion Breweries Limited in Nago, Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Rice Regular|
Score
5.62
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REFRESHING TASTE
ORION DRAFT BEER offers mild taste and crisp aftertaste developed in the semitropical climate. It is invigorating, and yet has rich body that only beer can offer. It goes well with any dish, not to mention Okinawan cuisine, bringing out the best of each dish and stimulating appetite.
HIGH-QUALITY FOAM
Foam-promoting protein, one of the components of foam, is increased during the brewing process to enhance the formation and retention of foam. The crispness of the beer contrasts with the rich creamy foam, making you never feel tired of the taste.
ORION DRAFT BEER offers mild taste and crisp aftertaste developed in the semitropical climate. It is invigorating, and yet has rich body that only beer can offer. It goes well with any dish, not to mention Okinawan cuisine, bringing out the best of each dish and stimulating appetite.
HIGH-QUALITY FOAM
Foam-promoting protein, one of the components of foam, is increased during the brewing process to enhance the formation and retention of foam. The crispness of the beer contrasts with the rich creamy foam, making you never feel tired of the taste.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
Can at Kanada Ya restaurant in Ealing, London. A golden coloured pour with a decent white head on top. Vague, herbal, rice, corn, floral taste. Basic rice lager that actually goes quite well with Japanese food.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2026
at 10:43
5.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 21 Apr 2026
at 22:42
5/10
Tried
on 25 Mar 2026
at 09:10
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
12/3/2026. Can shared by Gus, cheers. Bought in London. Brewed at St. Peter’s Brewery, Suffolk. Pours fine. Musty citrus aroma. Caramel. Odd sourdough taste. Not nice. Was this what the Japanese intended by getting this brewed in Suffolk?
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2026
at 19:07
6/10
Starting my Tonkatsu ramen at Kanada-Ya Soho
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2026
at 12:57
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle pour from Whole Foods, Sherman Oaks. Clear, bright yellow, nice sparkle, thin head with good retention and nice soapy lacing. Aroma is strong rice, mild sweet corn, cardboard. Taste follows aroma. Frothy texture, lively carbonation and finish as taste. Good strength. About as interesting as a rice lager can be. Off the top of my head, is this my favorite rice lager? Who knows because that is not information I would keep in my head. On to Cincinnati...
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2026
at 03:15
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Beers of Europe. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of corn, faint floral hop. Taste is light malt, light rice, light grassy hop. Thin finish.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2026
at 17:34
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Can. Gold, white head. Meek aroma of light bread and rice. And very empty upon a swig. Clean but empty. There is a little lightly earthy bitterness at the end. One of those "quite high quality but why bother?" Japanese lagers.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2026
at 12:15
5.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2025
at 16:29
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4.5
Texture 5
Overall 4
330ml can. Opalescant, orange, pale golden colour with average, frothy, rapidly osteoporosing and finally completely fading, white head. Grainy, malty aroma, minimally sweet-ish hints of corn, rice, cereals. Taste is sweet-ish, slightly grainy, minimally spicy, pale malty, hints of rice, a touch of corn, straw, plain, mildly bitter, hoppy overtones.
Oily-watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy palate, fine, scattered, soft to flat carbonation.
Expressionless, vacuous, not even particularly refreshing - uncalled-for.
Oily-watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy palate, fine, scattered, soft to flat carbonation.
Expressionless, vacuous, not even particularly refreshing - uncalled-for.
Tried
from Can
from
Craft Bier Bude (REWE von Wantoch)
on 20 Aug 2025
at 20:52