Hon Kirin
Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.61
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Can shared from a shop in Kyoto. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of light fruits, grain, light malts and a little yeast. Flavour is light sweet and bitter. Light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Initially, this is a straight forward garbage lager. But it does add some I interest a few sips I. The malt lrofil becomes fuller along with a light hop layer. This is still quite the Japanese macro lager but it is a fuller, slightly more enjoyable version.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Clear pale golden colour, small frothy white head, mostly diminishing, minimal lacing. Aroma malty, grainy, caramel. Flavour medium sweet and slightly bitter, malty, grainy, caramel. Sweetbitter aftertaste, medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can from Lawson's, Clear orange gold in color with a cheap grainy malt adjunct character. 140¥ yen cheap Happoshu but not terrible for what it is.