Koshihikari
Echigo Beer Company in Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Rice Regular|
Score
5.34
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Lager beer using Niigata Koshihikari rice. Crisp and refreshing with smooth finish. Goes very well with Japanese food such as sushi.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500 ml bottle. Pours amber with light head. Slightly skunky aromas with cereal, rice and almost floral hops. Flavors of cereal and ice. Slightly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2026
at 22:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours a crystal clear gold with a small, foamy, short lived, white head that leaves spotty lacing. Mild aroma of grainy pale malt, rice and floral hops. Sweet flavour of bready pale malt, rice, lemon and grassy hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Light body with a watery texture and average carbonation. Refreshing and crushable.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Andrew Hilton Wine and Spirits
on 02 Mar 2026
at 06:08
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle to glass at Anjin restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is clear pale golden with a small white head. The aroma is cereal malt, rice and a soft sort of synthetic sweetness. The taste is the cereal malt, rice and the sweetness towards the back, cleaner than the nose suggested it would be. The palate is light bodied, active carbonation and cereal finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2025
at 03:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
A classical and generous lager, particulary refreshing and welcoming for the beginning of the summer, malty, bready, smooth, side of rice well balanced with the malt, classical hop at the final, 10.05.20
Tried
from Can
from
Más que cervezas
on 21 Nov 2025
at 18:45
5/10
Blik van Sterk.
Nauwelijks schuim, goudgeel, transparant
Grassig, mout, brood
Zoet, niet best
Hoe dit een craft brewery is ontgaat me.
#japan
Nauwelijks schuim, goudgeel, transparant
Grassig, mout, brood
Zoet, niet best
Hoe dit een craft brewery is ontgaat me.
#japan
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2025
at 01:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottled beer at a ramen place near NYU with family. Clear, slightly jellied golden pour, weak head. Grainy, rice mash, slightly sharp nose. Crispy, white grape sweetness, very slight tang, toasty finish, refreshing acid. Thin, bright & fizzy. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2024
at 01:06
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
More ratings into the void. I had this bottle at a Kobe steakhouse. Not great, light bodied, rice like weak grainy profile. Maybe a light sweetness or fruitiness but unremarkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2024
at 16:13
8/10
Tastes like rice.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:59
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
350ml can. Clear, yellow-ish, golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Weak, grainy malty and strawy, minimally soapy aroma. Taste is minimally grainy, pale malty, mildly bitter and minimally floral-grassy hoppy, hints of rice, a touch of straw. Watery texture, rather indifferent palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation. Relatively clean and simple, fairly drinkable - nothing exciting.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2024
at 19:54
6/10
Botella @amada_Carlota. 22/09/2024. Color amarillo transparente corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores cereal, levadura cuerpo ligero.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2024
at 12:03