Koshihikari
Echigo Beer Company in Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Rice Regular|
Score
5.34
|
|
Lager beer using Niigata Koshihikari rice. Crisp and refreshing with smooth finish. Goes very well with Japanese food such as sushi.
Sign up to add a tick or review
5.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours pale gold with a large fading white head.Nose shows spicy hops, bready malt, herbal notes and soft cereal characters.Flavours include more cereal characters, some hay-notes, a bit more of the spicy and herbal hops.Body feels a bit on the watery side.
Tried
on 29 Feb 2024
at 08:38
5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sept 08, 2025: poured from 350mL can. Clear blonde with white head. Rice lager with very feint honey and a hint of skunking. Bland, uninteresting. 3/3/3/3/7=1.9
Oct 08, 2022 (5/3/5/2/10=2.5): Poured from 500mL bottle. Clear blonde gold with white head. Honey, bland rice, touch of wheat. Inoffensive, but super boring.
Oct 08, 2022 (5/3/5/2/10=2.5): Poured from 500mL bottle. Clear blonde gold with white head. Honey, bland rice, touch of wheat. Inoffensive, but super boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2022
at 06:26
5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle) Pours clear golden yellow with tiny loose white head. Little aroma, mainly bready grain. Light bodied and fizzy. Very little taste. Some grassy hints at the start, lean to some lemon notes and bread notes. Maybe a hint of pear drops towards the end. For a beer presumably crafted to have very little flavour it is ok, but really, why bother?
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2022
at 13:22
6.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at Fin's, didn't write down the date, drunk 3/20/22. Clear, peachy-pale-gold. Small, rapidly fading white head. Fruity rice, peachy and estery with soft honey-like malt and a semblance of floral hops. Clean. Soft, but crisp and refreshing enough. Oddly fruity but also with some floral bitterness. Clean, so that's the most important thing here.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Mar 2022
at 15:25
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2022
at 12:22
4.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
350ml can from Hi-Time Wines, Costa Mesa. Drank at my daughters on 24th December 2021. Rice Lager is not a specialty of mine, but this was a pretty bland 'grainy' beer with not much going on aroma or flavour wise. Clear and clear golden body, short lived white head. Just didn't do it for me.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2021
at 02:39
3.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Pours a clear gold from a can. Very sweet grainy aroma, clearly rice based. Crisp and clean but sweet. Not a good beer, kind of a classic lager.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Nov 2021
at 23:09
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a clear yellow with a white head. Pleasant, sweet malty nose with floral hops. Medium body, sweet maltiness but far from cloying. Very subdued bitterness, and in the long run perhaps a tad too sweet. But well made. 221121
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2021
at 15:21
6.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can from Kyoto station Yodobashi camera. Pale gold fizzy fast vanishing white foam and mild grainy aroma. Light bodied and very spritzy effervescent carbonation. The taste is grainy sweet with hints of honey. Kind of standard lager type brew with no noticeable hops. Better than I recall.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2021
at 10:25
3.9/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Light white rice kind of flavour. Pretty boring but not offensive at least. Golden pour with decent head. Light cloying finish but isn't too off. Can at Rakuya.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Aug 2021
at 00:42