Helios Craft Beer Goya Dry

Goya Dry

 

Helios Craft Beer in Yaese, Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Vegetable Regular
Score
5.47
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 15
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6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can at home. Very pale watery yellow colour. Thin white bubbly head that fades quite quickly. Aroma is grainy with a touch is something spicy and vegetable like. Some malty sweetness too. Taste is similar, couldn't identify it as goya but there is definitely a vegetable taste, quite earthy and peppery. Little bit of lemon and grain there too but overwhelmingly vegetal. Finish is mildly bitter. An interesting concept and fairly easy to drink, but not sure I want it again.

Tried from Can on 09 Sep 2019 at 15:53


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can in Naha, Okinawa. Clear golden yellow color. White head with good retention. Aroma’s: fruity, rice, like a true Japanese lager. Retronasal it’s also a bit stale and vegetal. Flavor is a bit fruity sour, with a hint of bitterness. Light bodied. Finish is indeed dry, with a weird, rather harsh bitterness that is completely out of place with this beer. Not very good.

Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2017 at 07:59


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Can sample at a tasting at Na’ama’s place. Thanks Na’ama. Yellow. Weird vegetal aroma, grainy. Sweetish flavor, grainy, kinda vegetal, with a bitter finish. Light-bodied. Not really pleasant.

Tried from Can on 25 Dec 2016 at 09:23


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(tap) hazy very pale yellow colour with a medium tall white head; aroma of dough; mineral and ashy flavour, with short, light sour and long light bitter finish; interesting, pleasantly refreshing

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2015 at 05:55


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Can from Daiei. Drank straight from the can. Aromas of cucumber, apple, fructose and alcohol. Taste is similar with cardboad and wet hay coming out as well. Active carbonation with weird dry and sweet quality. Becomes like a chuhai on the finish. Nasty stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Goya Dry on 29 May 2015 at 19:30 - Score: 4

Tried from Can on 29 May 2015 at 05:01


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can 12fl.oz. [ As Helios Goya Dry ].Clear light to medium yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light malty, cardboard, light spicy. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, spicy, thin, cardboard, sweet ? Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20140222]

Tried from Can on 14 Jun 2014 at 04:59


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can@Papsø - yellow coloured pour with small white head. Straw, grassy, sweet malty, slight hoppy lemon citrus, with very watery/weak floral and herbal traces.

Tried from Can on 04 Mar 2014 at 15:37


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can 33 cl. Pours yellow with a vague haze and a lacing white head. Dusty, dry aroma - not entirely sure of what. Medium body, extremely dry and cardboardish. Has an astringent, bitter finish - not necessarily of hops. Oddball. 220214

Tried from Can on 22 Feb 2014 at 05:11


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Canned, thanks KansaiBeerLvrs! Hazy pale golden, small head. Vague, peculiar aroma of star anise and kumquat. Light bodied with clean mouthfeel. Some honey and white pepper. Low bitterness.

Tried from Can on 22 Aug 2013 at 09:53


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

On tap at the GJBF Osaka. Maybe served too cold, a vegetable aroma. A slightly cloudy gold pour. The flavor is more peppery than I remember from the brewpub with less of the goya bitterness. A decent take on a lager & definitely something to try when you’re in Okinawa.

Tried from Draft on 15 Jul 2013 at 05:57