Lucky Beer (Lucky Buddha)
Cheerday Hangzhou Qiandaohu Beer Co. - 杭州千岛湖啤酒有限公司 in Qiandaohu, Zhejiang, China 🇨🇳
Brewed at/by: Cheerday Hangzhou Qiandaohu Beer Co. - 杭州千岛湖啤酒有限公司Lager - Pale Regular
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Score
4.43
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In a world a world that's full of change, it's good to know that Lucky Beer offers something consistently good natured. Although the distinctive laughing Buddha bottle is central to our brand, Lucky Beer - and the good fortune it shares - transcends all religions, cultural boundaries and beliefs.
In its simplest form, we stand for goodwill for all humanity.
"If you think that enlightenment is separate from the drinking of beer you have not yet understood" Ancient Taoist Saying.
The "Laughing Buddha" depicted on Lucky Buddha beer is actually not THE Buddha and therefore not religious but cultural. He is incorporated in Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto traditions. The term buddha means "one who is awake", connoting one who has awakened into enlightenment.
In its simplest form, we stand for goodwill for all humanity.
"If you think that enlightenment is separate from the drinking of beer you have not yet understood" Ancient Taoist Saying.
The "Laughing Buddha" depicted on Lucky Buddha beer is actually not THE Buddha and therefore not religious but cultural. He is incorporated in Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto traditions. The term buddha means "one who is awake", connoting one who has awakened into enlightenment.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Why? Why not? Bottle from Sun Devil in Mesa, AZ. It is a cool bottle. Brassy gold color with a firm white head. Typical pale lager aromas. Near medium body with feisty carbonation. It’s crisp and clean, suggestion of citrus in the finish. A good choice when you want this sort of thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2008
at 13:42
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Okay, so I usually don’t bother buying and/or rating anything that I know is going to be shit, but, like so many others, I just had to have the bottle - It’s a bottle shaped like Buddha, with beer inside! - how awesome is that? - you’ve got to respect a company that can produce shitty beer, AND disrespect an ancient religion simultaneously - what a super cool, post-modern conflation of sacred iconography and modern consumer culture - how incredibly pornographic - but wait, let’s not stop here - why not bottles of birth control pills shaped like the virgin Mary’s head, or canned hams in the shape of the Star of David? - and why limit ourselves to containers? - how about toilet paper with the Koran written on it, or tampons in the shape of Shiva, Vishnu, and other Hindu Gods? - GOD THIS BEER SUCKS - .........and why the hell is this Buddha beer made in Australia!?
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2008
at 19:08
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle (green Buddha shaped!). Pale, little head. Very light on flavour. What little flavour there was was reasonably well balanced. Recommended as having been brewed to go well with Asian food (whatever that means). Nothing to recommend it, but nothing particularly offensive about it, just very bland and pointless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2007
at 08:05